More Afghans to be expelled from UAE

The United Arab Emirates UAE daily al-Khaleij said on Sunday that the United Arab Emirates will return back more than 1500 Afghans who entered the country illegally. They have been detained since more than one year because of the air embargo imposed by the UN against Afghanistan during the control of the Taliban movement of the rule in Afghanistan.

News reports quoted the said paper as saying that the UAE authorities and the provisional Afghani government agreed to return back the Afghans during the visit held by the chairman of the provisional Afghani government Hameed Karazai to Abu Dhabi on February 10th.

The international force for keeping peace in Afghanistan announced on Saturday that the UAE will return back a group of Afghans who were considered "persona non grata."

According to Afghani diplomatic sources in the Arab Gulf region there are 350 other Afghanis to be expelled from Saudi Arabia; 165 in Oman, and 120 to be expelled back home from Qatar.

Worthy mentioning that some 500,000 Afghani emigrants are living in the Arab Gulf states including 100,000 in the UAE.