Over 500 ‘illegal’ Afghans held in three provinces

ISLAMABAD: Undocumented Afghan nationals continue to be arrested by authorities, and a joint report of IOM and UNHCR says over the past one week, 517 Afghans were arrested from three districts of Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Out of all arrests and detentions during October 11 to 17, ACC holders and undocumented Afghans from Chagai, Peshawar and Karachi represented 97 per cent of the total arrests and detentions, while Proof of Regis­tration (POR) holders represented 3 per cent. About 56pc of the total reported arrests and detentions took place in Balochistan, 34pc in Pun­jab and…