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Pakistan announced Friday that it had extended, after a delay of four months, the legal residence status of about 1.4 million Afghan refugees until year-end, though it again rejected calls to halt deportations of all undocumented Afghans and other foreign nationals.
The announcement comes as a relief to the refugee community amid a nationwide crackdown on foreigners illegally residing in Pakistan, including an officially estimated 1.7 million Afghans.
“[The] government of Pakistan is pleased to extend the validity of the Proof of Registration, or PoR, cards issued to the registered Afghan refugees … till [31st] December 2023,” according…
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The past few months have seen a number of charity law developments, in terms of legislation coming into force, judgments from the courts and tribunals, and new guidance from the Charity Commission. We briefly flag the more significant of these developments here.
New Charity Commission guidance
The Charity Commission has published (in August and September respectively) updated and new guidance on investment and social media:
We have reported on the new investment guidance here.
This new guidance:
Recommends charities using social media have a social media policy in place.
Sets out trustees’ legal responsibilities in relation to social media (while…
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The US Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally and set up another legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration.
Hours after the Justice Department asked the high court to intervene, the court blocked the Texas immigration law from going into effect until next week. The high court also requested a response from the state by Monday.
The emergency request came after a federal appeals court over the weekend stayed US District Judge David Ezra’s sweeping rejection of the law signed by Republican Gov.…
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the US, dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration enforcement efforts.
US District Judge David Ezra’s preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas’ southern border to discuss immigration.
The state attorney general’s office immediately appealed the ruling, according to a…
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