International News Desk , Daily Dawn, Dawn TV Report
Frankfurt: The German government is pressuring Islamabad to allow the return of more than 200 Afghan citizens who were waiting to come to Germany but were sent back to their homeland under Taliban rule.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Josef Hintersee has said that more than 200 Afghans, who were waiting for asylum in Germany, have been sent back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan by Pakistan in recent days and the German government is pressuring Islamabad to allow them to return.
The deported individuals are part of a group that was previously offered asylum in Germany but is now caught between German Chancellor Friedrich Meier’s strict immigration policy and mass deportations from Pakistan.
Hinterseeher told reporters that Pakistani police had recently arrested about 450 Afghans who had been accepted for asylum under a German scheme because they feared for their lives from the Taliban. “According to our information, 211 of them have been sent back to Afghanistan,” he said.
“245 people were allowed to leave the camps in Pakistan where they were held before the planned deportation,” he added.
“We are continuing to talk to Pakistan to make it possible to return those who have already been deported,” a German foreign ministry spokesman said.
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