AFGHANS fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross the border to their homeland, aid agencies said today.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as authorities pursue people they claim are in the country illegally, going door-to-door to check migrants’ documentation.

Pakistan set October 31 as an arbitrary deadline to leave the country or else they’d be arrested as part of a new anti-migrant crackdown.