AFGHANISTAN accused Pakistan of seeking to expel all Afghan refugees today, complaining its nationals were being arrested, searched and ordered to relocate by police.

The Afghan embassy in Islamabad said today Afghans had been arrested in the capital and in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, and ordered to move to other parts of Pakistan.

“This process of detaining Afghans, which began without any formal announcement, has not been officially communicated to the embassy through any formal correspondence. Ultimately, officials from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that there is a definitive and final plan to deport/remove all Afghan refugees not only from Islamabad and Rawalpindi but also from the entire country in the near future,” the embassy claimed.