Following an increase in criminal activities attributed to Afghan refugees in union council Panian of Haripur district, a jirga on Tuesday imposed a ban on renting out houses to Afghan citizens residing on this side of the border.
Property owners whose houses are already rented to Afghan nationals were asked by the jirga to get them vacated voluntarily after Eid, otherwise the jirga would forcibly evict the tenants with the help of the local police.
According to Ashraf, a contractor who was present at the jirga in Panian, criminal activities involving Afghan individuals were on the rise in the area because of lack of a proper monitoring system of these guests’ movement.
“Records available with the police reveal Afghan refugees who have been living in Haripur for the past three decades are involved in felonies like cattle theft, burglaries, robberies, car thefts, kidnapping for ransom, drugs and arms smuggling,” claimed Ashraf.
“It cannot be ruled out that they might have links with banned outfits,” he said, adding apart from increasing crimes, these foreigners were also causing collateral losses to locals by destroying or stealing their crops in areas close to Afghan camps.
The jirga also criticised the government’s decision to extend the stay of Afghan refugees in Pakistan till 2015. “If they are not repatriated to Afghanistan, where law and order has improved considerably, then their movement should be restricted to their camps and monitored properly,” said another member of the jirga.
Participants also flayed the local police for their poor performance, saying lives and property of residents were no longer safe from those they had hosted and shared resources with for so long.
INSTEAD OF GOING BACK TO AFGHANISTAN THIS WILL BE ONE MORE REASON FOR AFGHANS TO SEEK ASYLUM IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
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EUROPE AND CANADA WILL BE FORCED TO TAKE THEM IN
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