Decision to Expel Illegal Foreign Residents: What Are the Challenges? Will Implementation Be Smooth?

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00:00Amir Zia Sahib, on 31st March, if Afghan nationals leave, then we will not be responsible for what happens next.

00:09Obviously, we have to implement a few rules, which are the laws of Pakistan.

00:13We have been welcoming them for so many decades.

00:17And then if we get this result, then ultimately this is what happens.

00:20Do you think Afghan nationals will want to leave peacefully,

00:23considering that they have made their lives here for so many decades,

00:26and yet they continue to speak and protest against Pakistan?

00:31This is a very complicated and delicate issue.

00:35You are absolutely right that we have been welcoming them for so many years.

00:40So Pakistan has to take care that our conversations and messages do not look like we are racial profiling someone.

00:48Because the way we object against Islamophobia,

00:52or if any other diaspora is targeted in any other country,

00:56then the same idea is applied in Pakistan as well.

01:00So, of course, the illegal refugees who have to be sent back, they should be sent back.

01:04But what will be the procedure for that?

01:06We cannot ignore the aspect of humanity in that.

01:10In countries like ours, there is an emerging tendency

01:15for vindictiveness.

01:21Amir sahab's call has been disconnected again.

01:23Sulangi sahab, do you think we have any vindictive element after so many decades?

01:27And we have still given a timeline. We have not started a crackdown.

01:30No, no.

01:33Amir sahab, I will come back to you.

01:35I am coming back to you.

01:37Your point is important that there can be work done in two ways.

01:40Sulangi sahab.

01:42Look, the thing is that it is not that you will put them in a concentration camp,

01:50or kick them out.

01:53Afghanistan is their country.

01:55And they are not our citizens.

01:57And they are not in the millions.

01:59In any other country in the world,

02:02there are other Muslim countries around Afghanistan,

02:07Pakistan is not the only one who has taken over Daryadli.

02:14Countries like America,

02:16they have very good relations with India.

02:20They filled two aircrafts,

02:22handcuffed them,

02:24tied them up and returned them.

02:26Yes.

02:27Either we have a special kind of heart,

02:31soft heart,

02:33so it is not that if you send them to Afghanistan,

02:36they will not be able to come back to Pakistan.

02:38But legally, through legal channels.

02:40If you send them back,

02:43they will be fingerprinted.

02:45And in the future, whoever wants to come,

02:47they should bring a visa.

02:49Okay.

02:50Amir sahab and I are not allowed to go.

02:53Sulangi sahab, it is difficult for us.

02:55We need to strengthen our green passport.

02:58But Amir sahab,

02:59you are talking about other ways.

03:01What can be the other way?

03:03No.

03:04I was saying that the refugees should go to their country.

03:08But the way we make them believe in the revolution,

03:11there should be a humanity aspect to it.

03:13Because the problem is that we have also seen

03:15that sometimes the local people,

03:17our Pashtuns,

03:18are overlapped.

03:20There is a racist slur.

03:22I am trying to make that thing believable.

03:24No, our Pashtuns are very important for us.

03:26Amir sahab, especially my in-laws,

03:28they are even more important for me.

03:31So, until we ensure this thing,

03:34in any way,

03:36you said that today they have a Pakistani passport.

03:40They have businesses.

03:42They are married.

03:43They were born here.

03:45It is a very complicated process,

03:47as I said in the beginning.

03:48How do you want to do it?

03:50So that we do not get defamed.

03:52So that we get our status.

03:54It is a challenging task.

03:55And our media should have a very responsible role in it.

03:58We should tell them that

04:00it should not happen that

04:02sometimes they ignite us against them.

04:05So, we should make a rabbit right wing,

04:08which we have seen in other countries,

04:10against the refugees.

04:12We should praise them in that way.

04:14And whatever we do,

04:15we should do it with confidence.

04:16We should talk to their stakeholders.

04:18We should talk to the Taliban.

04:20So that they settle down

04:21and involve their international community.

04:22Salangi sahab, I have 15 seconds.

04:24Closing remarks.

04:25The majority of Pashtuns in the world are in Pakistan.

04:30No other country can get the status of Pashtun.

04:33And if there is a city,

04:35where the majority of Pashtuns live,

04:37then it is that city,

04:39where Amir Zia is.

04:40Karachi.

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