(12 Jul 2024)
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Karachi, Pakistan – 12 July 2024
1. Various of Afghan Basti market, people moving around
2. Various of Abdul Baseer, an Afghan immigrant in Pakistan, showing cloth to customers at his shop
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abdul Baseer Ghaznavi, Afghan immigrant in Pakistan
“We have been in Pakistan for 35 years. We have our business here. People owe us around 5 million rupees (approx. 17,850 dollars). Similarly, we owe around 10 million rupees (approx. 35,714 dollars) to people. How can we leave this all? Our children study here. We have business here. We studied here. How can we leave? We can’t do business there (in Afghanistan). We have lived all our life here. We don’t have a house there. We were born here. Our children were born here. Even our parents were born here. How can we go there? It’s not possible to go there (Afghanistan).”
4. Two men leave after buying cloth
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abdul Baseer, Afghan immigrant in Pakistan
“The solution is that the POR cards (Proof of Registration ) given to the Afghans should be converted into Pakistani cards. Nationality should be granted to the Afghans living in Pakistan. Because in other countries nationality is granted after you have spent five years there. You get British nationality like that, you get American nationality like that, similarly in other countries – after five years. We have been living here for 35-40 years. Why can’t we get nationality? It is the only solution – that we be given Pakistani nationality.”
6. Various shots of an Afghan making roti (bread)
7. Exterior of Afghan Basti
8. A labourer carries items in Afghan Basti
9. Sign board read as Pak-Afghan Kabul transport
10. Various of labourers loading items onto a bus roof
11. Various of families arriving to get on the bus
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Fareed Khan, an Afghan immigrant who is going to Kabul
"It will take at least two to three years. People have their houses here, they have shops, they have businesses. We can’t suddenly stop our business. We can go after gradually winding up our business here. Like myself, I am going back willingly after winding up my business. I had a good life here. I had a good business going. I also used to do a job and got paid 40 to 45 thousand rupees (approx. 150 dollars). I don’t like leaving but I have to."
13. Fareed getting on the bus
14. Various shots of families getting on the bus
15. An Afghan national hugs others to say goodbye
16. A boy waves to a family
17. Close of an Afghan woman crying
18. Bus leaving carrying Afghan families
AP videographer: Muhammad Farooq
STORYLINE:
Afghans living in Pakistan port city Karachi are calling on the local government to grant them nationality after having lived there for decades, having set up businesses, had children and built a community.
It comes as Pakistan authorities are considering a plan to expel hundreds of thousands more Afghans, the foreign ministry said Thursday, the latest in a monthslong government clampdown on undocumented migrants.
“We have been in Pakistan for 35 years. We have our business here. How can we leave this all? Our children study here,” said Abdul Baseer, an Afghan immigrant, who has five children.
“We can’t do business there (in Afghanistan). We have lived all our life here. We don’t have a house there. We were born here. Our children were born here. How can we go there? It’s not possible,” he said.
Pakistan’s crackdown on undocumented migrants has drawn sweeping criticism from the United Nations, aid agencies and human rights groups.
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