KARACHI: The police on Thursday booked and arrested in a late-night operation 14 people from Afghanistan for illegally living in the port city of Karachi.
The people failed to produce evidence of their Pakistan citizenship and relevant travel documents, police said.
Police have registered cases against the immigrants under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and handed those men over to the authorities.
In a statement, police said the crackdown against such foreign nationals would continue across the provincial metropolis.
Earlier on November 11, Sindh Rangers and police in their joint action rounded up 122 illegal immigrants, who were attempting to enter Sindh from Balochistan.
According to a spokesperson for over, the personnel of the paramilitary force and police searched the passenger bus in a routine practice wherein they encountered the 122 suspects who were Afghan citizens having illegally penetrated into Pakistan.
