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No crackdown launched against Afghan refugees: Minister

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Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, the interim interior minister, has made it clear that the country’s illegal immigrant population is the sole  target of the ongoing activity, with no crackdown targeting Afghan  refugees. In response to motion made by Senator Sardar Muhammad Shafiq Tareen and others, he stated as much. The Interior Minister refuted the notion that undocumented  immigrants are being repatriated suddenly, stating that suitable  system has been developed by the government to facilitate their  return. According to him, district-level committees were established, and one of the committees’  members, the Afghan Chargé d’affaires, provided appropriate input. According to Bugti, the government initially set up period for  voluntary repatriation, under which over 2,90,000 foreigners went back to their countries of origin, but the government only sent about 8,000 illegal Afghans back.

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