RASC: The Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan called the deportation of wandering asylum seekers from Pakistan an unfortunate act and said that this act puts the lives of a large number of human rights activists, protesting women, prosecutors, defense lawyers, soldiers and employees of the former government in serious danger.
This commission said in a statement today, Sunday, June11 , that numerous reports from reliable sources show that the Pakistani police have recently arrested a large number of Afghanistani refugees and migrants in Pakistan and deported some of them.
This institution has demanded to stop this action of the government of Pakistan.
The Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan has “emphatically” requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to start an effective dialogue with the government of Pakistan as soon as possible in order to prevent these disturbing acts of the Pakistani police.
Recently, sources from among Afghanistani immigrants in the city of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, said that the police of this country have arrested and imprisoned dozens of asylum seekers in less than a week.
Sources say that the Islamabad police stop Afghanistani immigrant citizens in different places and ask them for legal residency documents.
These sources said that the Pakistani police even raided their residences to arrest Afghanistani immigrants and arrested men and women.
