PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI AUTHORITIES DEPORT GROUP OF AFGHAN REFUGEES THEY CLAIM TOOK PART IN VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN QUETTA IN EARLY OCTOBER

Record ID: 275353

  • Title: PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI AUTHORITIES DEPORT GROUP OF AFGHAN REFUGEES THEY CLAIM TOOK PART IN VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN QUETTA IN EARLY OCTOBER
  • Date: 29th October 2001
  • Summary: (W3) QUETTA, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: EXTERIOR OF PRISON/POLICE VAN 0.05 2. VARIOUS POLICE OUTSIDE VAN (2 SHOTS) 0.15 3. SV: AFGHAN REFUGEES INSIDE POLICE VAN 0.18 4. CU: HANDCUFFS 0.21 5. SV: MORE OF REFUGEES 0.27 6. SV'S: AFGHAN REFUGEES INSIDE VAN (3 SHOTS) 0.41 7. PAN:
  • Embargoed: 13th November 2001 12:00
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  • Location: QUETTA, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA3XXG54F8LS8LOLVJM9BT8HS82
  • Story Text: Pakistan authorities have deported a group of Afghan
    refugees whom they say took part in violent demonstrations in
    Quetta earlier in October.

    A consignment of relief supplies is being driven into
    Afghanistan from Pakistan.


    The 15 Afghan refugees who were deported from Quetta on
    Monday (October 29) were arrested on October 8 during
    anti-United States demonstrations in the Pakistani city.

    "Those refugees who get themselves into these anti-state
    and illegal activities will be at the minimum deported out of
    the country and that is what we have done today," said Dr.

    Mohamad Sohaib Saddal, Inspector General of Quetta police.

    "We are hoping that this message will be loud and clear
    for all potential miscreants that if they try to take the law
    into their own hands then they will be dealt with sternly," he
    added.

    Pakistan has said it will not tolerate any such activities
    from Afghan refugees on its territory.

    Meanwhile a convoy of aid from the Ummah Welfare Trust
    left Quetta for the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

    Tents and flour were loaded into trucks bound for
    Afghanistan.

    "We are sending this food to the Red Cross organisations
    who will it to the people who are in need," said Mohammad
    Adris, a member of the Ummah Welfare Trust.

    "We are sending medicine for the people who are injured
    and especially for the people living in the villages of
    Afghanistan and have no resources to come into the city to
    collect aid," he added.


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