Meanwhile, Pakistani officials deported 50 Afghan nationals yesterday after holding them for a month on charges of staying in Pakistan without valid travel documents, police said.
The men, who were arrested last month in separate raids in the city of Quetta, were handed over to Afghan authorities in Chaman, a key crossing point on the Pakistan-Afghan border, a senior police official Abdul Rashid said.
Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan Province, is home to a large number of Afghan refugees, who have been living here for decades after fleeing wars, unrest and poverty in their country.
Although Pakistan has allowed refugees to continue living in the country, those people who sneak into this Islamic nation without valid documents, are caught and sent back to Afghanistan.
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