Government Sets 1st Nov Last Deadline For Illegal

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker Federal Interior Minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, has announced November 1 as the deadline for all illegal immigrants to leave Pakistan or face deportation and seizure of real estate and business they have in Pakistan.

Federal Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti warned that illegal immigrants had been given until November 1 to return to their home countries or risk deportation during a press conference on Tuesday in Islamabad. After the time had passed, the minister stated that their assets and businesses in Pakistan could be confiscated. 

He added that the safety and security of the people of Pakistan is the government's prime responsibility and foremost priority. Illegal Afghan nationals, he claimed, were behind 14 of the 24 suicide attacks that occurred in the nation this year.

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He declared that an aggressive campaign against illegal immigrants, including Afghan nationals, would be initiated. These individuals would be detained and sent back to their home countries. According to him, there are at least 4.2 million Afghans living in Pakistan, at least three million of whom are undocumented and living unlawfully.

At the conference, the government did not emphasize more on just Afghani national, but they catered to all the illegal immigrants like people from Nigeria, South Africa, and much more. furthermore, he says that Pakistan is one of the countries that does not check the documents, passports, or visas at the permitted entry time. 

Most, of the major Pakistani journalists like Hamid Mir, also tweeted on social platforms that the actual crackdown by the government of Pakistan on the basis of illegal immigrants has been started brutally. 

They will compile information on unregistered refugees residing in the province, and they will be in charge of both removing them from the province and preventing their admission. The extra chief secretary and the appropriate divisional commissioner will preside over the province- and division-level committees, respectively, while concerned deputy commissioners will lead the district-level committees.

Although the government hasn't set a timeline for finishing the expulsion of illegal immigrants, sources claim that when the deadline expires, a 10-week operation will be carried out. The deadline was established with the impending elections—scheduled for the final week of January in 2019 in mind.