Has Imran Khan delivered an inswinger at Pakistan military?
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 IST
NEW DELHI: Recently sworn-in prime minister Imran Khan said Pakistan would grant citizenship to all Afghan and Bangladeshi refugees born in the country.
Pakistan is home to over 1.39 million UNHCR-registered Afghan refugees and more than 200,000 ethnic Bangladeshis, including many Rohingya. UN surveys suggest that around 60% of Afghan refugees were either born in Pakistan or were minors when their parents migrated to Pakistan.
This is a marked departure from the country’s previous stand wherein it saw the refugees as unwelcome and has consistently pushed Afghanistan for repatriation. In fact, only a day earlier, Khan’s foreign minister had "underlined the need for dignified, sustainable repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland through a gradual and time-bound plan”.
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