Islamabad: Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said the country currently stood at the crossroads of history, insisting that it could no longer continue to compromise its national security by accommodating a massive number of undocumented and illegal immigrants termed as “aliens”.
In an article written for the Telegraph newspaper, Kakar said that the goal was to build as better and safer country that benefits its own people.
“Our ultimate aim is to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous Pakistan — with associated benefits for out own people, for the region, and the wider world.”
He highlighted that Pakistan’s actions to remove illegal aliens from its soil are in the same adaption to a new era of mass migration linked to conflict, climate change, and economic opportunism.
Referring to the UK government’s plans to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda, the interim Prime Minister said that this was also a sign of that pressure.
“The heated debate surrounding the proposal and the many efforts to derail the scheme illustrated the huge challenge for policymakers as they sought to balane human rights with hard realities.”