TORONTO / ISLAMABAD —
Canada’s immigration minister stated today the region has now assisted additional than 140 Afghans make their way overland to Pakistan, a person of the few routes that is open to people who want to go away the nation and have specific Canadian VISAs.
A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino added that these refugees will be on their way to Canada within “days or months.”
The Khyber Pass, a mountain move on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, is currently a jammed jumble of vehicles, folks, goods, Pakistani troopers and now Taliban gunmen.
Right up until a handful of months in the past, it was the Afghan military that controlled their facet of the border, but now it is Taliban fighters giving the orders.
Beneath the white flag of the Taliban, border guards from equally nations around the world stand just techniques apart, controlling the mass of vans likely back and forth, as well as the crush of Afghans determined to depart.
A Taliban fighter said that these who have a VISA can leave or occur when they want, but most Afghans waiting in line will be turned back as only individuals with vacation documents for a further place will make it across.
Following hrs on the street to make it this considerably, there is an excruciating wait around to get that past approval to move from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Paperwork demands to be precise, and it’s all been intricate by tests for COVID-19.
A family of 8 who left Kabul in the middle of the night time, hauling baggage with Canadian flags on them, advised CTV News that getting through the border was tricky.
“It took a prolonged time,” the father claimed. “There have been loads of men and women all over here.”
They experienced remaining Afghanistan specifically a thirty day period because Kabul fell.
“We go to Islamabad to get the processing finished, and then we’re going to rock and roll,” he explained.
In accordance to the minister’s office, most of the refugees travelling overland by way of Pakistan are Afghans who aided Canada’s army in the 2000s and panic retribution from the Taliban.
Close to 3,700 people today were evacuated to Canada ahead of the U.S. withdrawal of troops at the stop of August. The federal authorities has explained they will resettle 20,000 Afghans who are compelled to flee.
Ten users of yet another household accepted by Canada also manufactured it throughout the border to Pakistan today, but hit a very last minute snag when two of them tested optimistic for COVID-19 and will shell out the future five times in quarantine.
1 a lot more roadblock on the street to Canada.
With files from the Canadian Press and CTVNews.ca’s Alexandra Mae Jones
