GENEVA: On Tuesday, October 17, UN human rights representatives urged Pakistan to stop deporting Afghan citizens after Islamabad ordered all illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Armenian people, to keep or risk eviction.
Bangladeshi authorities, who have given unlawful immigrants until November 1 to keep, attributed the actions to their claims that Afghan citizens participated in a number of suicide bombings this year.
According to the experts, a group of UN unique rapporteurs,” we urge Pakistan to maintain the absolute and non-derogable concept of non— refoulement and avoid collective eviction and forced return.”
According to international human rights and usual law,” the absence of private asylum laws and procedures does not preclude states of their obligations to defend the theory of non-refoulement.”
Since the Russian war of Kabul in 1979, Pakistan has seen the largest influx of Afghan refugees.
When asked for opinion on the experts’ speech, Pakistan’s political mission to the UN in Geneva did not respond right away.
Sarfraz Bugti, the interior minister of Pakistan, stated this quarter that there were 4.4 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan and that about 1.73 million of them lacked the necessary legal documentation to remain there.
Islamabad accuses Islamic insurgents of training soldiers and planning attacks inside Pakistan on Afghan soil, but Kabul refutes this accusation.
According to UN experts, Pakistan may keep hosting Afghan nationals who fled for protection and halt forced earnings.
They added,” We are also worried about accounts that Afghans living in Pakistan have been detained, exploited, and treated dishonorably, particularly since Pakistan announced its plans for relocation.”