{"id":17353,"date":"2026-03-03T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/03\/03\/bannu-police-target-illegal-afghan-nationals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:55:38","slug":"bannu-police-target-illegal-afghan-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/03\/03\/bannu-police-target-illegal-afghan-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannu Police Target Illegal Afghan Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: abdus salam Baitab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bannu: Security teams in District Bannu have arrested <strong>149 illegal Afghan nationals<\/strong> and 35 suspected facilitators during a large-scale operation across several police station jurisdictions. The operation was conducted under the direct supervision of SDPOs in line with clear directives from District Police Officer Yasir Afridi, and targeted areas where irregular residency had been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police registered cases against the detained individuals under the Foreign Act and initiated formal investigations. Parallel legal action was taken against 35 facilitators, including landlords and shop owners, with complaints lodged under Section 10 RBO as authorities work to hold those who enabled unlawful residence accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the enforcement drive responds to growing national security concerns and follows repeated government warnings that were not heeded. The scope of the operation has been extended down to the grassroots level to ensure law and order, and illegal Afghan nationals have been urged to return to their homeland respectfully and as soon as possible to avoid further legal consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bannu operation detains 149 illegal Afghan nationals and 35 facilitators as authorities enforce the Foreign Act and Section 10 RBO to restore local security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17354,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions\/17354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}