Over 100,000 Afghan migrants have fled from Pakistan in 30 days
With the deadline given by the Pakistani government to illegal Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan approaching, more than ten thousand other Afghan migrants headed towards the country’s border with Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Pakistan has given 1.7 million illegal Afghan migrants until Wednesday, November 1st, to leave the country voluntarily, or they will face arrest, transfer to new detention centers, and then forced deportation to Afghanistan.
According to reports, since the deadline was announced a month ago, over 100,000 Afghan migrants have fled from Pakistan. On Tuesday, the Torkham border crossing, which leads from Peshawar, Pakistan to Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan, witnessed the entry of more than ten thousand other Afghans trying to exit Pakistan.