Jade-Abresham Weekly: Afghanistan Human Rights Defenders Committee has expressed concerns over Expelling Afghan Refugees from Pakistan and has termed it as cooperation of Pakistan with the Taliban.
The committee issued a statement late on Thursday that the visas of most Afghan refugees in Pakistan have expired and no timeline has been identified to extend them.
Afghanistan Human Rights Defenders Committee was established by 48 national and international organizations in 2015 led by Afghans and UNAMA and The European Union and Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission are the oversight members of the committee.
Pakistan government ordered deporting all illegal refugees in Pakistan on October 3, which 1.7 million of them are Afghans. They shall leave Pakistan by end of October, if hey don’t leave Pakistan, then they will be deported.
The committee said the decision of Pakistan government will put in danger the lives of hundreds of human rights activists, prosecutors, judges, lawyers, medica activists, for government civilian and security employees, who have fled Afghanistan due to discrimination and prejudice.
Expelling by force and making them to leave Pakistan is like cooperation of Pakistan with the Taliban to suppress them.
The committee referring to the new UNAMA report about killing, arresting and torturing the former security members by the Taliban said the international committee has no plan for the Afghan refugees and processing their cases in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and it is questionable.
Afghanistan Human Rights Defenders Committee has emphasized in the basic rights of Afghan refugees and has urged Pakistan to treat them in a dignified manner.
This committee has also stated that those Afghan refugees who have travelled to a third country to pursue their cases which their visas have expired, face heavy fines and maybe deported. As a result, it is required the UNHCR to negotiate with the mentioned countries to find a logical, legal and lasting solution to these problems.
“Those countries involved in the evacuation process, should immediately expediate the process of their cases and save them. We ask the host states and countries to observe the neighborhood rights and treat the refugees based on customs and culture of good neighborhood.” The statement said.
After the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2021, many Afghans, fearing to be imprisoned and tortured by the Taliban, left Afghanistan and most of them went to Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, holding validated visas.
But due to slow processing of their cases by the third countries, most of these refuges face legal problems in these three countries.
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