Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssel called on the European Union today to develop a common procedure for issuing identity and travel documents to Afghan citizens whose asylum applications have been rejected or who have committed crimes in host countries, the Associated Press reported.
The minister said it was "almost impossible" to deport Afghan citizens who do not meet the criteria for asylum because they do not have identity or travel documents.
He added that while the EU has no interest in concluding "political agreements" with Afghanistan, which would legitimize the Taliban authorities, it is possible that the 27-member bloc could agree at a technical level to issue documents to Afghan citizens that would speed up their deportation.
"It is quite disturbing for us to see a lot of cases of people who have committed crimes, Afghan citizens who have committed crimes in Sweden, and today it is almost impossible to expel them," Forsel told the AP on the sidelines of an informal meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia.
"If you come to Europe and commit crimes, you have chosen not to be part of our society. And we have to do everything we can to make sure you are expelled," he said.
The minister added that the same applies to Syrian asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected, but that priority remains for Afghan citizens.
According to Forsel, it is impossible for Afghan citizens to obtain an identity card or passport from their homeland, as most Afghan embassies in Europe are not recognized by the country's Taliban authorities.
The minister said that the European Commission had recently established contacts in the Afghan capital on the issue, which he called a "very positive first step". He said there was "broad consensus" among many EU countries facing similar problems, more should be done to speed up the deportation of Afghan asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected or those who have committed crimes.
Forsel said that more than half of Afghan asylum seekers will have their applications rejected and "must return to their homeland", otherwise public support for accepting those who meet the criteria for asylum will decrease.
The Swedish minister also suggested that Afghan citizens who are subject to deportation to different EU countries be grouped and repatriated on charter flights.
There will be no compromise with the interests of the people of Balochistan and the process of reforms aimed at the progress of the province will continue, said on the social platform “Ex“ the Chief Minister of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, Mir Sarfraz Bugti, quoted by the Pakistani news agency APP.
He pointed out that Balochistan has an annual budget of about 1 trillion Pakistani rupees (about 3.5 billion US dollars), 80% of which goes to non-development-related expenses, mostly salaries and pensions of about 250,000 government employees.
He mentioned that only 200 billion rupees are available for the welfare and development of the 13 million people in the province.
“In the last two years, several obsolete and inefficient government departments have been closed to correct the badly balanced system,“ he noted.
Inactive agencies, such as those for Religious Affairs and Civil Defence, have been closed and eight thousand unnecessary government posts have been cut.
The chief minister noted that strict action has been taken against indiscriminate absenteeism of government employees. employees.
“The path of reforms is not yet complete, but pressure, protests or blackmail cannot stop us from protecting people's rights,“ Bugti is categorical.