Pakistan prepares deportation centres as deadline for Afghans looms

Pakistan prepares deportation centres as deadline for Afghans looms

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government said Thursday it would open several "holding centres" for undocumented migrants as a deportation deadline looms for hundreds of thousands of Afghans. Pakistan prepares deportation centres as deadline for Afghans looms Islamabad has given Afghans it says are living illegally in Pakistan until November 1 to leave voluntarily or face deportation -- an order the Taliban government says amounts to harassment.
"These centres have been named as holding centres. Illegal immigrants will be kept there," Sarfraz Bugti, the caretaker interior minister, said at a press conference.