Karachi: Interim Home Minister Sindh Brigadier (retd) Haris Nawaz said authorities have so far arrested 1,700 Afghan nationals “Illegally residing” in Karachi.

“All illegal immigrants living in Sindh would be deported,” he said in media talk outside office of West Zone Deputy Inspector General of Police.

After passage of deadline, authorities will kickstart an operation targeting illegal properties and businesses owned by immigrants or those being run in collaboration with Pakistani nationals.

Talking to media persons, Nawaz said Sindh government was preparing mechanism under which registered immigrants would not be touched.

He said committees led by concerned SSPs and deputy commissioners were being formed in which representatives of all institutions would be included in action against illegal immigrants. Illegal Afghans, he stated, would be sent back home in buses through Chaman Border in Balochistan while registered Afghans would not be touched.

Talking about law and order situation in province, Nawaz said, “We have adopted an extraordinary policing policy”. He added that policy would help improve situation of street crimes and other lawlessness. “We would not allow any corrupt mafia to become active again,” he vowed, adding that “System” that existed earlier would not be allowed to continue.

He said that an artificial water shortage was being created in Karachi after government’s recent crackdown against illegal hydrants and water thieves.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 10 2023

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