Govt orders strict enforcement on Afghan nationals living without visas
Published on June 29, 2026
Make us preferred on Google Afghan residents wait with their belongings to cross into Afghanistan at Friendship Gate of Chaman Frontier Crossing
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Govt orders strict enforcement on Afghan nationals living without visas
Make us preferred on Google Afghan residents wait with their belongings to cross into Afghanistan at Friendship Gate of Chaman Frontier Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier in Chaman, Balochistan, October 31, 2023. — Reuters Interior government department sends letter to provinces, all territories. Interior government department seeks daily short report on Afghan nationals. Government department directs LEAs to expedite deportation of Afghans. The interior government department has ordered protection application of statute bodies nationwide to detention Afghan residents without visas from July 10 as part of an intensifying deportation drive.
In a letter dated July 28 — addressed to all four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad administrations — the government department directed protection application of statute bodies to "expedite the repatriation/deportation" of Afghan nationals living illegally in the country.
The government department stated that "with effect from 10 July, 2026, any Afghan national found residing in Pakistan without a valid visa shall be arrested immediately."
It further requested that a daily short report — indicating the number of Afghan nationals found without valid visas, the action taken against them, and their present status — be furnished to the government department, commencing July, 11.
The command is dated Sunday, the day after a deadly assault on Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) camp in Karachi left three Rangers personnel martyred and four others injured.
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