F.P. Report
LANDI KOTAL: Repatriation of illegal Afghan citizens is in progress as 19344 Afghanis returned to their homeland via the Torkham border in the last twenty four hours.
As per Afghan Commissionarate 0.147949 Afghan nationals had returned to Afghanistan in the last one month.
Approximately 17118 Afghan citizens illegally resided in various parts of the country returned back to Afghanistan.
According to available information 2530 Afghanis from Punjab, 2330 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 536 immigrants from Islamabad, 103 from Azad Kashmir, 103 from Sindh had been shifted to the holding center, Landi Kotal where from they were repatriated to Afghanistan.
It is to be mentioned here that after the expiry of the deadline, a crackdown against unlawful immigrants was launched across the country.
Meanwhile, locals’ philanthropists and political workers set up welcome camps in Landi Kotal and Torkham and provided food and non-food items for the repatriated Afghan families.
