KARACHI: Terming the country\u2019s \u2018Illegal Foreigners Repat\u00adriation Plan\u2019 \u2014 now in its third and final phase \u2014 \u201cunlawful\u2026 given it violates\u2026 the right to non-refoulement\u201d, Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to halt the deportation of Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n
In an open letter to PM Shehbaz Sharif, Agnes Callamard \u2014 secretary general of the global rights watchdog \u2014 noted that Pakistan has been a generous host to refugees for over 40 years, but noted that its policy changed significantly once the repatriation plan was announced in Sept 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, Amnesty Inte\u00adrnational has documented a complete lack of transparency, due process and accountability in the unlawful arrests, detentions and deportations of Afghan nationals in Pakistan,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
It also called on the country to create well-resourced and accessible pathways for the registration of refugees, taking proactive measures to expedite the registration of refugees particularly at risk, including but not limited to women and girls, journalists, and those belonging to minority and ethnic communities, and those facing barriers due to gender, disability, language, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI: Terming the country\u2019s \u2018Illegal Foreigners Repat\u00adriation Plan\u2019 \u2014 now in its third and final phase \u2014 \u201cunlawful\u2026 given it violates\u2026 the right to non-refoulement\u201d, Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to halt the deportation of Afghan refugees. In an open letter to PM Shehbaz Sharif, Agnes Callamard \u2014 secretary general of the global rights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15091,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions\/15091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}