Pakistani travellers with valid visas being quietly offloaded at airports in ‘silent ban’ A tightening state grip on Pakistan’s airports has turned lawful travel into a gamble December 18, 2025 In 2025, over 66,000 passengers were offloaded from flights at Pakistani airports due to incomplete or fraudulent travel documents, with authorities intensifying measures to curb illegal migration and human trafficking. Deportation figures show that approximately 59,927 Afghan nationals were deported from Pakistan by August 2025, with numbers continuing to rise, and more than 280,000 Afghans overall were forced to leave Pakistan by November 2025. Regarding international travel, about 8.5 million Pakistanis travelled abroad this year, including over 500,000 to Saudi Arabia alone, reflecting both tourism and labour migration trends. As for expatriate migration, while precise annual figures for permanent migration are not publicly available, estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis continue to leave the country for work and settlement abroad, with ongoing emigration patterns contributing to a net outflow of population.
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66,000 passengers offloaded.
280,000 Afghans forced out.
8.5 million Pakistanis leaving to survive.
A state that exports its people, then blames them for leaving. This is not control. This is collapse.
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