Pakistan Deports Refugees

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reiterated that Rohingya Muslims living in India are not refugees but illegal immigrants from Myanmar, and that objections to deport them are baseless since Myanmar has expressed its willingness to take them back.

Describing them as a security threat, India has said it wants to deport nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled the violence in Myanmar, but today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh led a large meeting to decide whether to grant citizenship to tens of thousands of Chakma refugees who are Buddhists based mainly in Arunachal Pradesh.

Pakistani police have arrested at least 500 Afghan refugees in a northwestern border province and deported them as a security risk, officials said today, a day before the expiry of a refugee registration deadline.

Pakistan refused to allow 30 migrants deported from Greece to leave a plane at Islamabad today, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations.

The European Union official in charge of migration was in Pakistan today for talks after the country last week suspended a deal to accept deportations from mainland Europe.

Canadian immigration authorities on Friday ordered the deportation of a Pakistani man accused of plotting to bomb the US consulate and finanCanada Orders Deported Pakistani Accused of Plotting to Bomb US Consulatecial buildings in Toronto.

A US-based human rights group has asked Sri Lanka not to deport members of Pakistani minority Ahmadiya community until the UN refugee agency had full access to them and determined their need for international protection.

Britain has deported nearly 700 Indians, including those who arrived here on student visas and overstayed or breached their visa conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans face the threat of deportation back to their war-torn country from Pakistan once a deadline expires tomorrow, but Kabul is crying foul over the move. Pakistan is home to 1.7 million refugees and hundreds of thousands more unregistered migrants from its neighbour, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reiterated that Rohingya Muslims living in India are not refugees but illegal immigrants from Myanmar, and that objections to deport them are baseless since Myanmar has expressed its willingness to take them back.

Describing them as a security threat, India has said it wants to deport nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled the violence in Myanmar, but today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh led a large meeting to decide whether to grant citizenship to tens of thousands of Chakma refugees who are Buddhists based mainly in Arunachal Pradesh.

Pakistani police have arrested at least 500 Afghan refugees in a northwestern border province and deported them as a security risk, officials said today, a day before the expiry of a refugee registration deadline.

Pakistan refused to allow 30 migrants deported from Greece to leave a plane at Islamabad today, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations.

The European Union official in charge of migration was in Pakistan today for talks after the country last week suspended a deal to accept deportations from mainland Europe.

Canadian immigration authorities on Friday ordered the deportation of a Pakistani man accused of plotting to bomb the US consulate and finanCanada Orders Deported Pakistani Accused of Plotting to Bomb US Consulatecial buildings in Toronto.

A US-based human rights group has asked Sri Lanka not to deport members of Pakistani minority Ahmadiya community until the UN refugee agency had full access to them and determined their need for international protection.

Britain has deported nearly 700 Indians, including those who arrived here on student visas and overstayed or breached their visa conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans face the threat of deportation back to their war-torn country from Pakistan once a deadline expires tomorrow, but Kabul is crying foul over the move. Pakistan is home to 1.7 million refugees and hundreds of thousands more unregistered migrants from its neighbour, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (...