{"id":59573,"date":"2023-11-02T01:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/01\/pakistan-starts-mass-deportation-of-undocumented-afghans"},"modified":"2023-11-02T01:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:25:14","slug":"pakistan-starts-mass-deportation-of-undocumented-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59573","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities go \u2018door to door\u2019 to round up and return thousands \u2013 many who fled from the Taliban \u2013 on first day of nationwide crackdown<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has begun arresting and deporting Afghan refugees who missed Wednesday morning\u2019s deadline for them to leave, a government minister has announced. At least 200,000 people have already returned to Afghanistan voluntarily, said Pakistan\u2019s acting interior minister, Sarfraz Bugti.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/06\/pakistan-says-it-will-deport-17m-afghans-and-all-other-immigrants\">crackdown on unregistered foreigners<\/a>, part of Pakistan\u2019s new anti-immigrant policy, affects some 2 million Afghans thought to be in Pakistan without documentation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/01\/pakistan-starts-mass-deportation-of-undocumented-afghans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities go \u2018door to door\u2019 to round up and return thousands \u2013 many who fled from the Taliban \u2013 on first day of nationwide crackdownPakistan has begun arresting and deporting Afghan refugees who missed Wednesday morning\u2019s deadline for them to leave, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,60,494,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573\/revisions\/59574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}