2.7m Afghan refugees to be repatriated from Sindh

KARACHI: The Sindh government decided on Saturday that a campaign would be launched to repatriate 2.7 million Afghan refugees by the end of this year. It also decided that the Home Department’s permission would be necessary to set up new Madaris.
These decisions were made at a meeting of the subsidiary execution committee of the provincial apex committee formed under the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism. Home Secretary Abdul Kabir Kazi presided over the meeting.
Later, the home secretary told reporters that the provincial government had set the date of December 31 this year to repatriate illegal and unregistered Afghan refugees back to their country. He added that the authorities would take strict action against the illegal immigrants who had unlawfully obtained properties in the province.
Quoting reports, Kazi said around 2.7 million Afghan refugees were living in Sindh of which 67,000 had registered themselves with the government while 85,000 were living in refugee camps. .