Peshawar High Court halts deportation of Afghans awaiting resettlement abroad

• Court issues notices to interior ministry and other respondents • UNHCR had recommended temporary stay for the Afghan family PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has temporarily restrained law enforcement agencies (LEAs) from deporting an Afghan family whose asylum case for resettlement in a third country through UNHCR is pending. A PHC bench comprising Justice Wiqar Ahmad and Justice Farah Jamshed issued notices to the respondents, including the interior ministry, seeking their responses to a...

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