{"id":27274,"date":"2023-11-22T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pakistan-initiates-second-phase-of-crackdown-against-illegal-foreigners\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:34:04","slug":"pakistan-initiates-second-phase-of-crackdown-against-illegal-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistan-initiates-second-phase-of-crackdown-against-illegal-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan initiates second phase of crackdown against illegal foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_98\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>QUETTA: Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai on Wednesday said that the government has initiated second phase of a crackdown against illegal foreigners across Pakistan, ARY News reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Quetta, the caretaker provincial minister said all government agencies are involved in the crackdown on the illegal foreigners. \u201cThose under any delusion that they will dodge crackdown live in fool\u2019s paradise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Achakzai noted that the repatriation of unregistered Afghan nationals was continuing via Chaman border but the \u201cprocess slowed down in the last few days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the authorities were in contact with Sindh and Punjab counterparts to speed up this process. He also rebuffed reports border closure at Chaman, adding that in recent days, 2,000 illegal foreigners have been detained<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 375,000 Afghans have left Pakistan since the November 1 deadline that Pakistan set for the voluntary return of all undocumented foreigners to their country of origin, a United Nations spokesperson said a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based UN agency, together with humanitarian partners, was delivering a range of critical aid at the border crossing points between Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Citing IOM, the spokesperson said that the number of border crossings had increased from 200 daily to 17,000 since Pakistan\u2019s \u201cIllegal Foreigners\u2019 Repatriation Plan\u201d went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The interim government had announced in October that all illegal immigrants should leave Pakistan by the 1st of November or face forceful expulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Afghans are returning to their homeland on a daily basis through Chaman and Torkham borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA: Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai on Wednesday said that the government has initiated second phase of a crackdown against illegal foreigners across Pakistan, ARY News reported. Speaking to journalists in Quetta, the caretaker provincial minister said all government agencies are involved in the crackdown on the illegal foreigners. \u201cThose under any delusion that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-1-179.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}