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Pakistan’s supreme court hears petition against forceful deportation of Afghans born in the country
This photo taken on November 23, 2023 shows Afghan refugee on a truck after visiting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Azakhel Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Nowshera. More than 345,000 Afghans have returned to their country or been deported since Pakistan in October ordered undocumented migrants or those who have overstayed their visas to leave. (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM / AFP) / To go with 'PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN-UK-US-MIGRATION,FOCUS' by Cyril Belaud and Zain Zaman Janjua (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN agency urges Pakistan to halt expelling Afghans during winter
A man walks past trucks loaded with belongings as Afghan nationals are returning home, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) repatriation centres in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
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Far-right populist Geert Wilders books major victory in Dutch election, exit poll says
A woman casts her ballot at the De Duif church, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Dutch voters cast ballots in a general election that will usher in a new prime minister for the first time in 13 years, with the rising cost of living and migration topping electoral concerns in a country that plays an important role in EU affairs and global trade and tourism.(AP Photo/Patrick Post)
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Afghan couple waiting to resettle in Canada hiding from Taliban after being deported from Pakistan
*** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT - An Afghan refugee girl peeps out during a search operation to identify alleged illegal immigrants, on the outskirts of Karachi on November 17, 2023. More than 200,000 people have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan, Pakistani border officials said, the vast majority since an October ultimatum given to the 1.7 million Afghans Islamabad said were living illegally in the country. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hindus in India and Pakistan celebrate Diwali
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Pakistani police cracking down on migrants are arresting Afghan women and children, activists claim
Police personnel conduct a late night search operation to gather Afghan refugees allegedly living illegally, in the outskirts of Karachi on November 11, 2023. More than 250,000 people have crossed from Pakistan to Afghanistan since an October ultimatum given to the 1.7 million Afghans Islamabad said were living illegally in the country. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Great Reads: Flying high in a Second World War icon, did Canada fumble its chance to finance critical minerals, and how Ukraine keeps its banks going
End of the production line at Victory Aircraft in Milton, Ontario, shows five almost completed Lancaster bombers that have been built by Canadians of all-Canadian materials for service during World War II. These aircraft are only a few hours from flight test, January 28, 1944.
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Afghans in Pakistan waiting for resettlement in Canada have been detained and deported
Afghan refugees wait to register in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Pakistan and Iran are Afghanistan’s neighbours, but their treatment of Afghans is shameful
Shoaib Rahim
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Taliban appeal to Afghan private sector to help those fleeing Pakistan’s mass deportation drive
Afghan refugees wait at the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border to be transferred to a camp near the border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. A huge number of Afghan refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Pakistani troops kill 9 militants and foil an attack on an air base in eastern Punjab province
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Disaster officials say nearly a half million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)
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Afghans in Pakistan seeking resettlement in Canada fear being deported back to Afghanistan
Afghan refugees in Pakistan walk towards the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border on November 3, 2023, following Pakistan's government decision to expel people illegally staying in the country. More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan since Islamabad issued an ultimatum to 1.7 million people a month ago to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on November 2. (Photo by Abdul Majeed AFP photographer / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED AFP PHOTOGRAPHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing overwhelmed as Afghans face expulsion
Afghan refugee families arrive to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border on November 2, 2023, following Pakistan's government decision to expel people illegally staying in the country. More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan since Islamabad issued an ultimatum to 1.7 million people a month ago to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on November 2. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP) (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Globe and Mail reporter Janice Dickson wins Amnesty International award for Afghanistan reporting
Janice Dickson, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (Justin Tang for The Globe and Mail)
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India to face Pakistan before 100,000-plus spectators at Cricket World Cup
Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan attends a practice session ahead of their ICC Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. India and Pakistan will play their World Cup match in Ahmedabad on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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Death toll from Pakistan blast rises to 59; minister blames India’s intelligence agency
Rescue workers search for blast victims in the debris of a collapsed mosque following a suicide attack in Hangu on September 29, 2023. A second suicide attack by two men at a mosque hundreds of kilometres north in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province led to a roof collapse that killed four people, officials said. (Photo by Basit SHAH / AFP) (Photo by BASIT SHAH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet
A view of a victim on a stretcher being transferred to an ambulance, following a suicide blast, in Balochistan Province, Pakistan in this screen grab obtained from a video released on September 29, 2023. Video obtained by REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Canada pledges $14-million for Afghan refugees in Pakistan after 2022 floods
This aerial view shows a flooded residential area in Dera Allah Yar town after heavy monsoon rains in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province on August 30, 2022. - Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on August 30 to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. (Photo by Fida HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rescuers save eight people trapped in cable car dangling above canyon in Pakistan
People watch as an army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 22, 2023. Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on August 22, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. (Photo by Prateek KUMAR / AFP) (Photo by PRATEEK KUMAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Troops guard Pakistani Christians after mob torches churches
People gather at a church building vandalized by protesters in Jaranwala, Pakistan August 16, 2023 REUTERS/Fayyaz Hussain
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Two years after Taliban takeover, many Afghans who helped Canada’s military remain in limbo
People wait outside Hamid Karzai International Airport as a military transport plane takes off behind them in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 21, 2021. The U.S. Embassy warned Americans to stay away from the Kabul airport and told anyone outside the perimeter to Òleave immediately,Ó citing unnamed security threats. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
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Pakistan’s parliament is dissolved to pave way for elections as Imran Khan seeks release from prison
Latif Khosa, center, a lawyer of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan's legal team, speaks with media outside a court after Khan's appeal hearing, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. A top Pakistani court Wednesday said it wanted to hear from the government before deciding over the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on corruption charges. Khan was arrested at his Lahore home on Saturday and given a three-year jail sentence on charges of concealing assets. He is held at the high-security prison Attock while his legal team seeks his release. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan goes from high office to high-security prison after sentencing
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks with Reuters during an interview, in Lahore, Pakistan March 17, 2023.
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Deaths from Islamic State bombing at Islamist rally in Pakistan rise to 63 after more wounded people die
Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Islamic State claims responsibility for bombing that killed 54 at a pro-Taliban election rally
Relatives and mourners attend the funeral prayer of victims who were killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Denmark seeks to legally prevent burnings of Quran or other religious scriptures
Pakistan Muslim Women League members chant slogans during a rally to denounce the recent burning of the holy book 'Quran' that took place in Sweden, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Suicide bomber at political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people, wounds nearly 200
Haji Ghulam Ali (2nd R), governor of KP province greets an injured man in a hospital in Peshawar on July 30, 2023, after at least 44 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan. The blast targeted the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party -- a government coalition partner led by an influential firebrand cleric -- as hundreds of supporters congregated under a canopy in the town of Khar, near the Afghan border. (Photo by Abdul Majeed AFP photographer / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED AFP PHOTOGRAPHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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The West cannot let Pakistan’s democracy wither
Omer Aziz
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New Delhi schools close after monsoon floods kill at least 15, Pakistan on alert for more flooding
A man looks at a swollen River Beas following heavy rains in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India, Sunday, July 9, 2023. According to local reports heavy rain fall has triggered landslides, damaged houses and caused loss of lives. (AP Photo/ Aqil Khan)
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Pakistan monsoon death toll climbs to at least 55, including eight children
People wade through a flooded area caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Officials say heavy monsoon rains have lashed across Pakistan, killing a number of people. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summons U.S. deputy mission chief over U.S.-India statement
An attendee holds the U.S. and India flags on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 22, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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At least 350 Pakistanis were on boat that sank off Greece
FILE PHOTO: A undated handout photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard shows migrants onboard a boat during a rescue operation, before their boat capsized on the open sea, off Greece, June 14, 2023. Hellenic Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Greek migrant tragedy death toll rises to 81, suspects detained
FILE PHOTO: Migrants, survivors of a deadly shipwreck after a boat capsized at open sea off Greece, wait to board a bus as they are being transferred to Athens from the port of Kalamata, Greece, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas/File Photo
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Pakistan’s Imran Khan calls for immediate talks amidst standoff with military
FILE PHOTO: Security officers escort Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, as he appeared in Islamabad High Court, Islamabad, Pakistan May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo
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Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan presses legal fight, gets protection from arrest in multiple terrorism cases
FILE PHOTO: Security officers escort Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, as he appeared in Islamabad High Court, Islamabad, Pakistan May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo