{"id":67431,"date":"2025-03-07T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=67431"},"modified":"2025-03-07T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:51:33","slug":"govt-orders-afghan-citizen-card-holders-to-leave-pakistan-by-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-orders-afghan-citizen-card-holders-to-leave-pakistan-by-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt orders Afghan citizen card holders to leave Pakistan by March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/finance-ministry-releases-monthly-economic-outlook-report\/\"> Ministry of Interior <\/a>has issued a directive asking all illegal foreigners and Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders to leave the country by March 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A person failing to follow this order will be deported starting from April 1. The order has been made within the ambit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/afghanistan-shocks-england-eliminating-them-from-icc-champions-trophy-2025\/\">Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Program<\/a> (IFRP), which came into effect on November 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry reiterated that adequate time had been provided for a dignified return, with no mistreatment whatsoever to take place during the repatriation. Food and medical arrangements are also being made for returning foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Pakistan has upheld its honor by hosting millions of Afghans who fled several decades of conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>As per UNHCR reports, there are about 1.5 million Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers, alongside over 1.5 million Afghans of different legal status currently in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal to expel Afghan nationals possessing Proof of Registration (PoR) cards came up for discussion and was approved in a high-profile meeting held on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, registered Afghans can return to Pakistan through the appropriate channels by obtaining visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has issued a directive asking all illegal foreigners and Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders to leave the country by March 31, 2025. A person failing to follow this order will be deported starting from April 1. The order has been made within the ambit of the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":61694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27003,27002],"class_list":["post-67431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-afghan-citizens-to-leave-pakistan-by-march-31","tag-illegal-foreigners-repatriation-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67432,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67431\/revisions\/67432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}