Deportation of Pakistanis: Understanding reached with EU

The visiting EU delegation acknowledged concerns and reservations of Pakistan on deporting illegal Pakistani immigrants from the European countries and vowed to address this issue with mutual collaboration.

Islamabad: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in a meeting with European Union Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos here negotiated an understanding to devise a mechanism to address concerns and reservations of Pakistan relating to immigration laws and the EU readmission agreement while deporting Pakistanis.
Avramopoulos said that contrary to the past practices, an explicit SOP will be followed in future to deport illegal Pakistanis from the European countries and in this regard reservations of Pakistan will be addressed. "We had friendly, frank and positive discussions with the Pakistani interior minister. And I think after the talks today . everything is back to normal," Avramopoulos told reporters after the meeting.
Meanwhile, to devise an standard operating procedure for future course of action, meetings between representatives of both sides will start soon.
The visiting EU delegation acknowledged concerns and reservations of Pakistan on deporting illegal Pakistani immigrants from the European countries and vowed to address this issue with mutual collaboration.
The meeting exchanged views in detail relating to terrorism, human-trafficking and increasing Islamophobia in European countries. Both sides agreed to counter Islamophobia together.
Nisar, expressing concerns over deportation of Pakistanis from the European countries in the wake of terrorism attacks in Paris. The issue will be raised in the upcoming meeting of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
In the past, scores of Pakistanis were deported to Pakistan without any solid evidences of their criminal record and there were also instances when large number of people having forged documents of Pakistan were deported to Pakistan without seeking verification from the Pakistan government.
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