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Pakistan sets up deportation centres to hold ‘illegal’ migrants
Local residents and Afghan nationals chant slogan during a protest rally in the southwestern border town of Chaman, Pakistan, October 26, 2023
PAKISTAN is setting up deportation centres for migrants labelled “illegal,” including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans, officials said today.
Anyone found staying in the country without the proper registration documents from next Wednesday will be arrested and sent to the deportation centres.
Three deportation centres are being set up in Baluchistan, said Jan Achakzai, a spokesman for the government of the south-western province. One will be in Quetta, the provincial capital.
