Afghans are piling into trucks and buses and leaving Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation
Afghan children onboard in a truck wait for their registration at a UNHCR voluntary repatriation center for retuning to their homeland, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. U.N. agencies have reported a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on people living in the country illegally. Pakistan earlier this month said it will arrest and deport undocumented or unregistered foreigners after Oct. 31.
“My father came to Pakistan 40 years ago," said 52-year-old Mohammad Amin, speaking in Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. Pakistani officials said the Torkam and Chaman border crossings with Afghanistan will remain open beyond their daily 4 p.m. closure to allow for those who have arrived there to leave the country.
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