Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that it will begin deporting all migrants apart from Syrian refugees earlier this month. Pakistan is resisting the effort, however.
The small, impoverished Balkan nation is currently hosting approximately 10,000 migrants in its reception centres, most of whom are awaiting the opportunity to cross the Croatian border and enter the European Union. Last week Bosnia’s Security Minister, Fahrudin Radoncic, ordered a list of illegal migrants for deportation to be drawn up, claiming that his country has become “a parking lot for migrants for Europe,” as previously reported by Voice of Europe.
Bosnia has said that it considers all the non-refugee migrants to merely be “economic migrants” and thus ineligible for asylum, especially as the migrants are coming from nations that are economically better off than Bosnia.
Now, Radoncic is accusing the Pakistani embassy of refusing to cooperate with the deportation measures by declining to confirm migrants’ identities, according to a report by Balkan Insight. The Security Ministry believes that more than 3,000 of the migrants they are hosting are Pakistani citizens. But they cannot initiate procedures against them until their identities are verified.
The Pakistani embassy in Bosnia responded to Radoncic’s charge by claiming that Ambassador Muhammad Khalid Rao had already met with Radoncic in January to discuss the issue. But the Security Ministry fired back by saying that the January meeting only had to do with arranging for the transfer of a dead Pakistani citizen’s body back to the country, and not with the issue of illegal migrants.
The Ministry accused the Pakistani ambassador of exercising “irresponsible behavior,” saying that this “further raises the issue of public confidence in his work and his stay in Bosnia.” Radoncic has said that the Pakistanis have been refusing to verify migrant fingerprints and photographs that have been sent by his Ministry to the embassy. He has threatened to declare the Ambassador persona non grata unless he cooperates.
Radoncic said that despite the Pakistanis’ resistance, his Ministry identified two terrorists among the migrants by matching their fingerprints to those found on weapons in a third country.
As a possible solution, the Security Ministry has suggested a new law that would make it mandatory for migrants who refuse to provide proper identification to be held in police custody and barred from going to reception centres until their identities can be verified.
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