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September 18, 2018

Pakistan: PM Imran Khan Plans to Grant Citizenship to Over 1 Million Refugees
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Pakistan's new prime minister Imran Khan has announced plans to grant
citizenship to anyone born in the country. The announcement is a
departure from the current policy and could drastically change the lives
of Pakistan's massive refugee populations. Khan said, "Those Afghans
whose children are born here and have grown up in Pakistan we will also,
god willing, get [passports] for them". According to U.N. numbers, close
to 1.5 million Afghan refugees who were born in Pakistan could benefit
from the policy. Bengali refugees in Pakistan, which include the
Rohingya community, would also be granted citizenship.


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