Kabul slams Pakistan’s ‘violence’ against Afghans pressured to leave

The Taliban government accused Pakistan on Tuesday of violently expelling Afghans after Islamabad cancelled hundreds of thousands of residence permits, pressuring families across the border.

Islamabad announced at the start of March that 800,000 Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) would be cancelled — the second phase of a deportation programme which has already expelled around 800,000 undocumented Afghans.

“The mistreatment of them (Afghans) by neighbouring countries is unacceptable and intolerable,”…