Pakistan wants 2.5 million Afghan refugees to leave

[TexasLawyer]

Pakistan wants 2.5 million Afghan refugees to leave

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Saturday, December 09, 2006

KABUL: Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri Friday proposed the repatriation of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees as a way to stop Taliban militants infiltrating into Afghanistan. Kasuri, on a three-day visit to Kabul, admitted that militants were making cross-border attacks from Pakistani soil, but said that Islamabad was doing its best to stop the problem with some 80,000 troops on the frontier.

"I'm not denying that people are coming from across the border ... but this is happening despite Pakistan," Kasuri told reporters after holding talks with his Afghan counterpart Rangeen Dadfar Spanta.

He said there was a parallel with attacks in Iraq that could not be prevented "despite the United States." Kasuri said the militants infiltrating Afghanistan from Pakistan were Afghan refugees and that sending them back to their home country would help in reducing the violence.

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More than 2.8 million Afghans who fled a quarter-century of instability in their homeland have returned from Pakistan since 2002 under a UN-assisted voluntary scheme, but almost the same number remain.

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=77519

[smirkymonkey]

1. The Pakistanis are so RACIST!

:sarcasm:

For some reason, when certain Muslim nations don't want certain other radical Muslim groups in their country due to the increase violence - it's ok.

But when non-Muslim nations want to stem the tide of radical Muslim immigration to their countries (because of increase violence) it's racist.

Islamic Fundamentalism is a problem everywhere, and I am tired of the ridiculous notion that to point it out is racist or intolerant.

Go ahead, flame away.

[fujiyama]

3. Pakistan is responsible

for most Afghanistan's problems in the first place. They created the Taliban, pushed them through AFghanistan and then have never really stopped funding radical elements there. Of course, we helped fund the initial mujahadeen when they were fighting the Russians.

But of course, they're our "ally in the war on terror". I love how news articles in the West use that line without batting an eye.

[closeupready]

6. Oh, please. Afghanistan has been a basket case for a LONG time

And they have their own distinct culture. Pakistan has been in existence only since 1948 (if I recall correctly).

But of course, those who hate Pakistan use every opportunity to smear Pakistan. Next you know, Pakistan will be responsible for higher oil prices, famine in Sudan, and flooding along the Mississippi. :eyes:

[Orrin_73]

5. radical muslims make only a tiny

minority within the muslim comunities.
Pakistan is afraid that the US gets too much influence within Afghanistan. The Afghanis in Pakistan are viewed like a 5th column because of US intervention in their country.

[High Plains]

2. Non sequitur

[nealmhughes]

4. Gee, I'll bet their cousins across the border in the Pakistani NWF are sooo happy to hear that...

Since when does the NWF listen to Karachi or Islaamabad?