Federal Government of Pakistan had set up 31st March 2025 as deadline to ACC holders to voluntarily go back to their country
KHYBER
Second phase of Afghan nationals repatriation started as fifty Afghan families carrying Afghan Citizens Card (ACC) arrived at Torkham on Thursday to move across the border to their homeland, official informed.
It is to be mentioned here that in first phase iniated in 2023 information shared by home and tribal affairs department of Khyber Pakhunkhwa 0.469, 879 millions Afghanis illegally residing in Pakistan have returned to Afghanistan.
Official in Torkham said that all the fifty Afghan families were displaced from the province of Punjab.
Abdullah,one of repatriated Afghanis said that after expiring of the deadline, the Punjab police kicked off crackdown against ACC holders and number of them were apprehended to forcebly sent them to their motherland.
On the other hand arrangements had been fanilized in the Holding Center in Landi Kotal to facilitate possible repatriated Afghan refugees, NADRA official said.
According to available official data almost 0.880000 Afghan nationals having ACC will return to Afghanistan in the second phase of repatriation.
It’s to be stated here that the Federal Government of Pakistan had set up 31st March 2025 as deadline to ACC holders to voluntarily go back to their country otherwise they will be forcebly expelled of the country.
