Afghanistan, Feb. 23 -- Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, has warned that if the cases of thousands of Afghan citizens waiting for resettlement in the United States are not processed on time or are rejected, they will be deported back to Afghanistan. He made these comments in a television interview with the national TRT network on Saturday, February 22.
The Pakistani official warned that, "If any refugee whose case has been accepted by another country is not processed on time-without considering the deadline-and that country rejects them, then for us, this would be an illegal immigrant in Pakistan, and we may have to send them back to their original country, Afghanistan."
Ishaq Dar emphasized that Islamabad is monitoring the situati...