Tag: Immigrants

Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Chairman Bashir Qureshi has demanded that those who arrived in Sindh after 1954 should leave the province. He made the...

Thirty Pakistani and Afghan immigrants tunnelled their way out of an Indonesian detention centre using spoons, nails and wooden sticks, an official said on...

Due to safe havens available across the country and failed policies of the government, around five million illegal immigrants are living in Pakistan for...

Nine people were burnt to death on Thursday when a car crammed with illegal immigrants collided with another car loaded with smuggled fuel in...

Fourteen illegal immigrants died of suffocation while traveling to Greece illegally in a container through Iran on Wednesday. Five of them belonged to...

Iranian Authorities have arrested 56 illegal Pakistani immigrants and handed them over to Pakistani officials on late Tuesday night. According to the Levies Force, the...

KARACHI - The federal and Sindh governments have yet to develop a policy to exclude illegal immigrants living in the province from the first phase of the census that is starting on Tuesday, sources have said. Through several reports, the federal government has admitted that over 2 million illegal immigrants are living in Sindh, including the provincial capital, Karachi. Chief Secretary Abdul Subhan Memon recently conducted a meeting at his office to discuss the census that is to be

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the enumeration of people living on water bodies and far-flung areas of the province and the exclusion of illegal immigrants during the census to be started on April 5.
The resolution was jointly moved by PML-F member Nusrat Saher Abbasi and some PPP and MQM members. "This assembly resolves and recommends to the Sindh government to approach the federal government for issuing directives to the

ISLAMABAD - The Senate was told on Wednesday that around three million illegal immigrants, excluding Afghans nationals, were living in Pakistan. "Among these three million, 50,000 are African people and 35,000 out of them are living in Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi while the remaining are living in other cities of the country," State Minister for Interior Affairs Tasnim Ahamd Qureshi told the Upper House.
The state minister also said four cases were registered in 2008, two in

KARACHI - The Sindh government had announced forming the department of Illegal Immigrants Affairs (IIA) in May 2008 and a provincial minister was also appointed to oversee the department; however, after the passage of almost three years, a secretary, a section officer or a clerk have yet to be appointed.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the IIA department seems to be a "dumped department" of the provincial government.
Sindh receives a higher number of illegal immigrants than