Thousands of Afghans are collapsing the Pakistan border to return to their country when the deadline set by the Islamabad government to return to their country is about to end. Pakistan threatened to forcibly expel the 1.73 million Afghans who reside in the country.

On November 1, the ultimatum that Pakistan gave on October 3 to undocumented foreigners to leave the country if they did not want to be forcibly expelled ends. This high number of Afghans has generated long waits at the main crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with kilometer queues of trucks full of Afghans leaving the country.

This decision was taken after Pakistani Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti revealed that 14 of the 24 suicide attacks perpetrated in the country this year were carried out by Afghans. Pakistan and Afghanistan share thousands of kilometers of border where until now thousands of people have been crossing without a visa, but after the deadline the Pakistani authorities will begin to request these documents.

And on the last day before the start of deportation, the border has collapsed. Besides, transport companies have raised prices to take the migrants to the borders, as one of them explained to Efe: “They charged us 200,000 Pakistani rupees (about $711) from Peshawar to Jalalabad (Afghanistan).”

The traffic jam at the border adds to the lack of food and shelters at the border, even knowing the enormous number of people who were going to go there these days, a void that has been taken advantage of by locals from nearby towns to open improvised stores to make an extra profit

The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointed out that the Pakistani government is using “threats, abuses and arrests” to force undocumented Afghans to return. “Broad calls by Pakistani authorities for mass deportation have instigated an increase in police abuses against Afghans, including harassment, assault and arbitrary detention,” lamented HRW, recalling that many of them are awaiting an asylum application. to move to other countries.