The Islamic Emirate's embassy in Pakistan has reported the arrest of nearly 800 Afghan citizens in Islamabad, the capital.

Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb, acting ambassador of the Islamic Emirate in Islamabad, said that despite possessing visas and residency documents, Afghan citizens were detained by Pakistani police. “The number of those detained is between 700 and 800. Some were even taken from their homes and transferred to a facility known for deporting Afghans,” he said.

Afghan migrants in Pakistan have also reported that police conduct day and night raids on their homes.

Shirin, an Afghan migrant, said: “In the area where we lived, women and children were brutally taken to camps. Unfortunately, one woman suffered a heart attack in one of the camps.”

Abdullah Muhammad, a member of the Afghan Migrants Council in Pakistan, said: “For the past six days, Pakistani police have been conducting group raids in migrant-populated areas, both day and night. They come to migrants' homes.”

On the other hand, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and the former US Special Envoy for Afghanistan have called for an immediate halt to the arrests and forced deportations of Afghan migrants from Pakistan.

“We call on the Pakistani authorities to immediately reverse these decisions and urgently pass human rights-compliant law protecting the rights of refugees in the country and become a state party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees along with its Protocols,” Amnesty International said in a statement. 

Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US Special Envoy for Afghan Peace, said: “I agree, the Pakistan authorities must stop the illegal mistreatment and deportation of Afghan refugees.”

Meanwhile, Fasihuddin Fitrat, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Defense, during a ceremony for land distribution to migrants in Daman District, Kandahar, urged host countries to cease oppressing Afghan migrants.

This comes as relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have grown tense with armed clashes on both sides of the Durand Line in recent days.