As deadline to leave Pakistan expires, official says over 100,000 Afghans gone home

Mushtaq Ali - Reuters - 01/11
Pakistani officials reported that more than 100,000 Afghan nationals had returned to their Taliban-ruled homeland in the past two weeks, as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave Pakistan was set to expire by the end of Wednesday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Nov 1 (Reuters) - Pakistani officials reported that more than 100,000 Afghan nationals had returned to their Taliban-ruled homeland in the past two weeks, as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave Pakistan was set to expire by the end of Wednesday.

A senior official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, gave the number for people who had left via the main Torkham border crossing.

"Some of them have been living in Pakistan for more than 30 years without any proof of registration," Deputy Commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan said.

An as yet undetermined number have also...
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