Pakistan is threatening to throw people in jail if they do not renew their visas by the end of 2022.
An Afghan refugee holds a small Canadian flag at the St. John's International Airport on Oct. 26, 2021.
A video ad produced by Pakistan's Ministry of the Interior has been streaming on government social media channels and on television since the start of October. It warns that "overstaying foreigners may be sentenced for up to three years of imprisonment" after December 31. Mohammad Nasimi and his children pose in the hotel room in Islamabad where they're staying as they wait to move to Canada.
As a contract labourer, Nasimi helped Canadian troops in Afghanistan detect bombs and landmines laid by the Taliban.He said he fears his family's status in Pakistan is becoming more precarious. A few weeks after he first saw the ad playing on television, he said, his two-year-old son was beaten up in their hotel.
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