Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Cabinet Friday approved extending proof of registration cards for Afghan refugees that expired April 1 to June 30, according to an official statement.
The document allows Afghan refugees to have access to health, educational, and banking facilities.
Pakistan is now home to around 3.1 million Afghans. Data shows 1.35 million are registered or POR cardholders. More than 800,000 have Afghan citizenship cards while the remaining are unregistered.
[November 8 2023 Mass expulsion of non-documented refugees has approval of establishment ]
It is, however, obvious that such decisions cannot be made without the approval of the security establishment. It is claimed that the mass expulsion of non-documented refugees is being driven by national security concerns, including the rising number of attacks by the TTP on Pakistani security installations and forces.
[December 23 2022 the army’s “long game” aiding the Afghan Taliban despite threats of a jihadist spillover. ]
A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, has killed at least one police officer and wounded several other people, according to officials.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility.
“Our initial information says that there was a man and a woman in the car,” Sohail Zafar, Islamabad operations police chief, told reporters. The car did not stop at the checkpoint when police tried to halt it, he said.
Friday’s bombing came two days after a Pakistani military operation killed dozens of TTP fighters after a standoff at a counterterrorism facility in Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
[February 9 2022]
In Pakistan, increasing attacks over the past few weeks have raised questions over the army’s “long game” policy of supporting the Afghan Taliban despite threats of a jihadist spillover.
[june 24 2018 Noor Wali Mehsud heads TTP after Fazlullah killed by drone ]
The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced it had appointed a new leader on June 23: Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud.
He hails from Gorgoray area of Sararogha tehsil and belongs to Mechikhel, a sub-clan of the Mehsud tribe. He also remained a qazi (judge) of Sharia court established by Baitullah Mehsud.
“With the appointment of Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud the leadership of TTP has returned to Mehsud tribe in its home base South Waziristan as Fazlullah was from Swat,” said Rahimullah Yusufzai.
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