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The Interior Ministry had already issued directives to district authorities and police to expedite the mapping, and collecting data of the whereabouts of the Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders and given March 25, Monday, as the deadline to complete the exercise, the Dawn newspaper reported quoting documents it had accessed and an official privy to the developments.
A total of 1,74,358 Afghan nationals left for Afghanistan since September 17, adding that voluntary repatriation was still underway, but the number was dropping with each passing day, the Dawn newspaper reported, quoting officials. "There was a huge number of illegal immigrants at the border crossing soon after the deadline expired. It is now coming down," an official involved in processing voluntary repatriation of Afghan nationals said.
The large migrant population is a drain on Pakistani resources and militants among the migrants threaten its security.
Could be hugely dangerous. i want to just go back to what i was saying about phase one and phase two beyond august 31. just to stress that we think that we've got the overwhelming majority of those eligible under the eligible persons scheme or under the arap scheme, the afghan repatriation and assistance programme, both those schemes, we think we have done the lion's share. there will be people who still need help. but what we are hoping — this is the key point that the g7 agreed — is that the taliban understand that if they want to engage with development aid, if they want to unlock those...