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Pakistan “halts” the return of undocumented immigrants

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The UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi’s recent visit to Pakistan is said to have prompted the decision.

Grandi conducted discussions with high-ranking officials, including Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Afghan refugees in Peshawar and Haripur, while here.

With reference to humanitarian considerations, the head of UNHCR asked the Pakistani government to halt the return of undocumented immigrants.

Until June 22, 620,981 Afghan nationals who were in the country illegally resumed their return home as a result of this decision.

Thirteen,815 Afghans, comprising five,014 men, four,087 women, and four,714 children, returned home between the eleventh and the twenty-first of September.

This is a good time to point out that on October 3, 2023, the National Action Plan’s (NAP) upper committee met under the chair of Anwaarul Haq Kakar, the country’s caretaker prime minister at the time. The committee gave all foreign nationals living in the country illegally until October 31 to leave voluntarily or risk deportation.

Through the frontiers of Torkham and Chaman, more than 500,000 illegal Afghans have returned home since the deadline expired.

Other nations, such as the US and the UK, as well as Afghanistan, also criticised Pakistan, but the country denied all of the accusations and insisted that the only people being deported were illegal Afghan residents in order to reduce the country’s rising crime rate.

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Maintaining Fertiliser Price Stability: The Need for a Continuous Gas Supply to the Fertiliser Sector

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To guarantee fertiliser price stability, a cabinet committee meeting was presided over by Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister.

Senior government officials, including Industries Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain, attended the meeting.

The attendees received an update on the government’s, gas suppliers’, and fertiliser industry’s conversations. Additionally, the gas supply for the fertiliser sector was evaluated and determined to be adequate.

Throughout the Rabi cropping season, the Deputy Prime Minister ordered the fertiliser industry to maintain a continuous gas supply in order to guarantee steady production and stock levels.

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Fifth Straight Cut: PM Applauds SBP’s Policy Rate Reduction

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Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has praised the State Bank of Pakistan’s decision to lower its policy rate by an additional 2 percent, stating that the bank’s current 13 percent rate is encouraging for the nation’s economy.

He expressed optimism in a statement that the policy rate cut would encourage investment and further boost investor confidence in the country’s economy.

The prime minister said that decreasing the inflation rate also lowered the policy rate and that future inflation rate reductions will be even more pronounced.

Additionally, he expressed gratitude to the Federal Finance Minister and other officials for their work in this area.

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GHQ Attack Case: Prosecution Seeks Bail Cancellation of CM KP & Other Accused, Indicts 9 More

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25 defendants, including PTI officials, have non-bailable arrest warrants issued by the Anti Terrorism Court of Rawalpindi for their failure to show up for court proceedings related to the GHQ attack case.

Judge Amjad Ali Shah added nine more suspects to the GHQ attack indictment list during today’s ATC Court sessions, bringing the total to 98.

Among the 61 defendants who appeared in court were Shah Mehmud Qureshi and the founder of the PTI.

Among those charged are Khadim Hussain Khokhar, Mehr Mohammad Javed, Chaudhary Asif, Zakir Ullah, Azeem Ullah, Shireen Mazatri, Major Retired Tahir Sadiq, and former MPA Rashid Hafeez.

A plea to cancel the bail of 23 suspects, including Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has also been filed by the prosecution side.

In the GHQ attack, there were 119 accused in total.

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