Pakistan seeks orderly departure of illegal Afghans Ministry

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Pakistan said, on Friday, that it would repatriate all illegal immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, in orderly phases rather than in one go, Reuters reports. Pakistan’s announcement on Tuesday of a 1 November deadline for people to leave or face forcible expulsion has frayed already soured relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who said the threat to force out Afghan migrants was “unacceptable”. “It will be done in phases,” the Foreign Office spokeswoman, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, told reporters in Islamabad. She added the process would follow an orderly manner, in contrast to what she called some misconceptions that...