Taliban brands Pakistan expulsion threat to Afghan immigrants ‘unacceptable’
PAKISTAN'S threat to forcibly expel illegal Afghan immigrants is "unacceptable", a spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul said, adding that Afghans were not to blame for Pakistan's security problems. Estimating that there were 1.73 million Afghan immigrants living in Pakistan without legal status, Pakistan's caretaker government on Tuesday set a November 1 deadline for them to leave or face forcible expulsion. "The behaviour of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable," Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The move to expel illegal migrants comes…
