The registrar of the Supreme Court has returned with objections the petition filed against the government’s decision to deport illegal immigrants.

The registrar’s office said that the petitioners had not pointed out what questions of public importance were involved concerning the enforcement of any fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution to invoke Article 184(3).

Former member of the National Assembly Mohsin Dawar, Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, and Farhatullah Babar on November 1 challenged the decision of Afghan refugees’ expulsion from Pakistan in the Supreme Court.

“That ingredients for invoking extra ordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 184(3) of the Constitution have not been satisfied,” the registrar added.

The petitioners have not approached any other appropriate forum available under the law for the same relief and have also not provided any justification for not doing so, he stated.

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“Caretaker Prime Minister and Caretaker Chief Ministers of all Provinces have been impleaded as respondents No.1 & 3-6, however, they cannot be impleaded as party under Article 248 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973,” the registrar added.

Pakistan set November 1 for the start of the expulsions. Soon after reaching the deadline, the authorities started rounding up foreigners, most of them Afghans.

Undocumented people who do not leave face arrest and forcible expulsion.

Many of the migrants fled Afghanistan during the decades of armed conflict since the late 1970s, while the Taliban’s takeover after the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces in 2021 led to another exodus.