Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. PHOTO: PID
The move came days after the government said it had suspended its agreement on the readmission of illegal immigrants with European Union countries, except Britain, because of its "blatant misuse".
During a meeting on Tuesday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar directed Pakistani diplomatic missions in Europe to demand proof from host governments that wanted to deport Pakistanis on terror charges, a statement said.
Pakistan suspends deportation accords
"It is a violation of human rights if any Pakistani is deported on terror charges without any proof," he said, according to the statement.
"We have to not only give courage to Pakistani expatriates, but also stand by them at every step."
Nisar also warned that airlines who carried deportees back to Pakistan without the interior ministry's permission or without travel documents would have to pay unspecified fines.
The 2010 agreement that Pakistan said it had suspended aimed to facilitate the return of Pakistani illegal immigrants and other nationals who had transited through Pakistan before arriving in the EU.
The interior minister said on Friday that 90,000 people were sent back to Pakistan from various countries last year alone.
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s a day (90000 people a year). Yes, I agree with Nisar that Non-Pakistanis shouldn`t be accepted. I think whats happening is Pakistanis arriving in the western countries even with a valid visa are being branded as Militants, and put on a return flight and packed up.