Monday, September 19, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Afghans forcedly returning home from Pakistan said their shops’ properties are pummeled and squandered by the Pakistani police. “They [the Pakistani police] are taking the shopkeepers to the jails and after a while they are released, see most parts of their properties are wasted and scattered everywhere,” complained a returnee, Abdul Wahid who added a property with 10 million Pakistan rupee is being forcedly sold in one million and the Afghan’s banking accounts are not allowed to be completely withdrawn, but part of them should be let remain in the Pakistani banks.
More than 5000 Afghans are returning home each day, after the Pakistani officials intensified violence against them recently, the ministry of refugees and repatriates said the other day. Under different pretexts, Pakistani police officials ask the Afghan refugees to abandon all their properties or sell them in low prices to the Pakistanis and leave their soil, according to the ministry, but, what could the Afghan government do to tackle the problem?
The ministry has said what has been considered by the government was far less than should be done for reintegration of the Afghans returning from the neighboring country.
Some urgent primary demands had been said to be lodged in the issues would be taken by the repatriates to the government of national unity; residential units, health facilities, schooling for their children and work grounds for themselves as most importantly emergency aids supply.
International media also believe Pakistani government’s misbehavior against Afghan refugees was political and by this, it wants to force Afghanistan cease ties with India.
It criticized Pakistan for adopting such step against the Afghan refugees, while their country is under critical insecurity and poverty.
Afghanistan is an independent country and can have firm relation with those countries are not accused of violence against humane nor supporting terrorism.
Experts believe the problem faced by the National Unity Government via the Pakistanis pressure to forcedly send the Afghan refugees to their country, would be a short term act, but in long term, after full repatriation of the Afghans to their country, Afghanistan would firmly resist against all the Pakistani’s subversive policies and would gradually tackle all its foreign policies with the neighboring country.
Afghans forcedly returning home from Pakistan said their shops’ properties are pummeled and squandered by the Pakistani police.
“They [the Pakistani police] are taking the shopkeepers to the jails and after a while they are released, see most parts of their properties are wasted and scattered everywhere,” complained a returnee, Abdul Wahid who added a property with 10 million Pakistan rupee is being forcedly sold in one million and the Afghan’s banking accounts are not allowed to be completely withdrawn, but part of them should be let remain in the Pakistani banks.
The behavior of the Pakistan government is in violation against the entire international humanitarian laws, the laws of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and all international conventions on refugees as well as the Islamic teachings.
So, the international community should not let Pakistan to continue torturing the Afghan refugees.
Each Afghan returning home receives some $400 and 145,000 from the total 235,000 Afghan refugees are with no refuge documents.
Afghan government said it had assigned a committee to work for the Afghans returning home, but the international community should provide the government with urgent aids to be provided to the repatriates in their own country.
Tension between Kabul and Islamabad get intensified after the Pakistani side resorted to the building of a gate in the zero point of the Torkham Port-the controversial Durand Line, where both sides sustained live and property losses in a military clash took place few months ago.
Hamidullah Faizi