3 Pakistani students arrested in Afghanistan for carrying incomplete travel documents

Islamabad:  According to official reports, three students from Pakistan have been arrested by Afghan authorities in the Bamyan province of Central Afghanistan.

The management of university says that the students, Bazegh Khan, Khalil Karam, and Shah Muhammad had traveled to Afghanistan last week for their university project.

Three Pakistani students were taken in custody by Afghan authorities almost four days ago for apparently carrying incomplete travel documents.

Though, contrary to the claims of Afghan authorities, spectators have noted that the arrests were made in an apparent reaction to Pakistan’s recently uncompromising attitude towards Afghan migrants living in the Pakistan for the last many decades.

Last week, Local Minsiter of Balochistan Safrafraz Bugti had warned that Afghan immigrants needed to go back to their country because they were involved in terror activities involving bomb blasts, murders and target killings as well.

Last week six suspected Afghan detectives were arrested by Pakistani security agencies for carrying out unusual activities (target killing) in premises of Balochistan.

Bugti had also warned that the government will utilize the force to expel Afghan migrants if the international community failed to take notice of this situation. These remarks of Bugti came after the arrest of six Afghan detectives by Pakistan security agencies.

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The UN Refugee Agreement, which is part of international customary law, stops the forced expulsion of migrants from countries where they have taken up refuge.

Pakistan also signed a contract along with the Government of Afghanistan and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Immigrants in the early 2000’s under which it guaranteed to work towards the gradual and charitable immigration of Afghan refugees back to their homeland.

This contract has been extended many times by the Government of Pakistan, most recently by the present set-up till December 2016.

The government of Afghanistan has called on various occasions for the further extension of agreement till the end of 2018, claiming that the security situation in the country is not conducive to the return of migrants.