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 a 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 a 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 a 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.