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April 30 deadline is final for illegal foreigners, says minister
Gulf Today
|April 19, 2025
Pakistan has expelled over 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said on Friday as part of a repatriation drive ahead of the April 30 deadline.
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Minister of State for Interior Tauhidi Chaudhry on Friday reaffirmed the government’s strict stance on undocumented immigration, declaring April 30 as the final deadline for all foreign nationals without valid visas to leave Pakistan.
Afghan nationals who have no legal documents to stay or those holding Afghan Citizen Cards had been warned by Islamabad to return home before the approaching May 31, a deadline which was then extended to April 30.
The April 30 deadline is final, Tauhidi Chaudhry told a press conference in Islamabad, underlining that only those Afghans who hold valid visas to be in Pakistan would be allowed to stay.
“We welcomed our Afghan brothers for 40 years with open hearts. But no country in the world allows anyone to live without a visa, and Pakistan cannot be an exception,” Chaudhry said while speaking to journalists on Thursday.
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