Deportations to Pakistan Suspended

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-eu-idUSKCN0T70S220151118 World | Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:19am EST Related: World Pakistan suspends deal to accept deportations from Europe ISLAMABAD | By Katharine Houreld Pakistan will refuse to accept any citizens deported from mainland Europe, halting repatriations at a time when European leaders facing an influx of migration are desperate to streamline procedures, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Globally, around 90,000 people were deported back to Pakistan last year for a variety of offences, but in some cases they had been sent back without proper determination they were Pakistan nationals, an interior ministry spokesman said. It was not immediately clear exactly how many came from Europe, although the figure is in the thousands, he said. European Union nations signed a deal with Pakistan in 2009 allowing them to repatriate illegal immigrants and other nationalities who transited through Pakistan on their way to Europe. "There were some irregularities in the implementation of this agreement," the spokesman, who asked not to be named, said. "The signing country had to first verify the nationality of that person who was being deported but there were instances where the nationality was not being verified. The minister took notice and the agreement is temporarily suspended." EU officials in Pakistan were not immediately available for comment on the Pakistani decision. Europe is facing its biggest influx of migrants in decades, with many families fleeing war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Some European leaders are calling for tighter controls over fears of Islamic State infiltration after attacks in Paris last week killed 127 people and injured around 200. Pakistan's refusal to accept deportees could slow down the removal of illegal economic migrants, making it harder to accept those genuinely fleeing persecution. On Tuesday, Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said that airlines returning deportees without Pakistani permission would be penalized. "Any airline that brings deportees to Pakistan without Interior Ministry permission and without Pakistan travel documents will be fined heavily," he said. Britain has a separate deal on deportations with Pakistan and is not affected by Tuesday's decision. Nisar added that Pakistan would not accept any deportees accused of militant links without clear evidence of guilt. "Accusing any Pakistani of terrorism without evidence is human rights violation," he said. As an example of problems with the system, the interior ministry cited the case of a Pakistani deported from Italy earlier this year who had been accused of militant links. "When the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) investigated, it was found he just visited jihadi websites," the spokesman said. (Additional reporting by Syed Raza Hassan in Karachi; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-eu-idUSKCN0T70S220151118 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Are Western European politicians completely INSANE? The sane option would be to have some very unpleasant holding ground that's off-shore and well away from Europe, where all invaders (no matter what their status or identification status) are immediately shipped to, where they shall remain (put to work), for as long as it takes to identify and process them them. And if that takes decades of processing, it shouldn't be a problem if violators of sovereign territory are put to useful work that profits the state. What's the bet that the prospect of immediate quarantined penal detention and forced hard labour at an off-shore site would abruptly put an end to the illegal immigration to Europe? Investment in acres of barbed wire and land-mines along all southern European borders, and gun ships authorised to deploy weapons on any and all unauthorised entry, wouldn't go astray as back-up. Yes, I'm well aware that this does not accord with human rights laws, but those laws can be by-passed by making national laws superior. The 'human rights' nonsense has to go.  Europe is going under if it doesn't toughen up and take the attitude that those that violate European sovereign territory shall not be granted or entitled to any rights upon territory they have invaded, as non-members of the tribe (people) that is heir, inhabitant, and absolute controller of such sovereign territory. Reading this and having read prior accounts of how difficult it is to deport invaders, it's beyond me why anybody would champion laws and principles that are irrational, as well as impractical, costly, and damaging to targeted host populations, which are bled financially and otherwise imposed upon. Universal human rights principles are based on the irrational premise that all things are equal, when they're not. I don't have anything in common with Western liberal human rights defender types  ...  I'm more into hierarchies of things and into specifics, rather than into broad, sweeping ideals. ꕤ