Azadeh Mashiri

This warning adds pressure to families who have told the BBC they desperately fear a return to Afghanistan. Pakistan has taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees from its neighbor over decades of instability. But it says it is now expelling foreign nationals who are in the country illegally.

It had previously announced that Afghans who have resettlement claims with other countries must leave Islamabad and Raalpindi by the 31st of March. The UN says that deadline still applies. According to the International Organization for Migration, the pace of deportations from the Twin Cities has increased in recent weeks.

Information has been very difficult to get because this is in a remote area with very limited mobile phone coverage. Even families who are trying to reach those on board are having difficulty. But the information we do have has so far been from security sources.

Now, we have also spoken to a railway police officer who said he was standing guard and witnessed militants firing rockets at the train when the attack happened. He said he and other security officials also fired back for nearly an hour and a half before they were caught. And he claims he saw dozens of dead bodies with attackers killing both military personnel and civilians.

Now, again, this is not something that we've been able to independently verify personally. But this is testimony from an eyewitness rather than just the security sources who have been releasing information. So it's giving us a bit more of a picture. And it also is a reminder that this is very much an active operation. The Baloch Liberation Army, the separatist militant group,

that has claimed this attack, claims that it is still in control of the train. And as far as what we've been able to gather, the BBC has seen a carriage that was loaded with empty wooden coffins at Quetta railway station. And official sources have told us that it was headed towards the nearest railway station to the hijacking.

And so as all of this is happening, the information is still being tightly controlled, but we are getting a sense of of the situation and clearly it's still very much an ongoing one with a lot at stake.

Well, it's not from official statements. It's from security sources who have been releasing some of this information unofficially to local journalists. You're right to point out how complicated it is to get independently verified information when it comes to this story.

But a lot of this, with a context that's really important to keep in mind, is that this is a militant group that has been calling for an independent Balochistan and has been behind many deadly incidents in this province in the last few years.

Ahmad hatte seine Visa gestärkt, aber seine Frau wartete noch. Die Polizei sagte, sie müsse sie und ihr Kind in den Haji-Kamp nehmen, wo viele Afghans in Islamabad und Raalpindi gehalten werden. Er hat sich entschieden, mit ihnen zu gehen. Er zeigt mir ein Video, ähnlich zu dem, das andere Afghans mir gesendet haben. In dem sind Männer, Frauen und Kinder weggefahren.

Wir sind hier in der Haji-Kampe, um zu versuchen, einige der Berichte, die wir hören, zu beurteilen. Aber die Offiziere und die Polizei hier werden uns nicht einlassen. Der pakistanische Regierung behauptet, dass niemand während des Repatriationsprozesses verletzt wird.

Es gibt auch einige Afghans um uns herum, einige Leute, die hierher gekommen sind, um ihre Relativen zu suchen, die sie sagen, in der Kampe zu halten sind. Wir treffen eine Frau namens Amine, die versucht hat, ihre Schwester zu besuchen. Pakistan has taken in millions of Afghans over more than 40 years. The UN says there are about 3 million in the country today.

But Pakistan is frustrated by what it calls very slow resettlement programs in other countries and says this problem can't go on forever. Families like Nabilas are terrified of what that could mean for them.

Oh, no.

At ten years old, her life is limited to the confines of her home in Islamabad and the dirt road outside it. Her father Hamid served in the Afghan military. They believe he and their family will be punished or killed if they return. The Taliban government has told the BBC all Afghans can live in the country without any fear. But the UN has previously cast doubt on an amnesty.

Pakistan says its policies are aimed at all illegal foreign nationals. But Afghans we've spoken to feel their lives are hanging by a thread and their time in Pakistan running out.

Ahmad geht uns durch seine Nachbarschaft.

Er sagt, er hat früher für eine westliche Charite in Afghanistan gearbeitet und war in den letzten Phasen eines US-Resettlungsprogramms. Zwei Wochen zuvor, als er aus dem Shop war, hat er einen Anruf bekommen. Es war seine Tochter's Voice on the line.

She was hailed at the summit as the great daughter of Pakistan. Yet this is but one of a handful of trips Malala Yousafzai has made back to the country in nearly 13 years. In 2012, the Pakistani Taliban shot her on the school bus when she was just 15. She'd been targeted because she'd spoken out about the right of girls to learn.

Now 27 years old, she urged Muslim leaders and scholars at a global summit to take action against the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

The summit organisers, the Muslim World League and Pakistan's education minister, have told the BBC the Taliban government were invited but they did not attend. When asked about engaging with them directly, the head of the Muslim World League said they spoke to everyone. They said there wasn't any solid religious evidence in Islam that girls shouldn't be educated.

The Taliban government declined to comment.

Now, Greenland has a very complicated relationship with Denmark. Of course, it is a semi-autonomous region of Denmark. And it's trying in its way to move further and further forward. Vielen Dank. Mariam Mashiri

Es ist ein riesiges Territorium. 56.000 Menschen leben hier, aber es ist die größte Insel der Welt. Und eines der Dinge, die hier für die Vereinigten Staaten wirklich wichtig sind, ist der Fakt, dass es riesige Mengen von unabhängigen Ressourcen auf dieser Insel gibt. Vor allem spreche ich über Ölreserven und Mineralreserven, die natürlich wichtig für advanced technologies global sind.

Now, Greenlanders, as you mentioned, are unhappy. They have pushed back a lot against this visit. And that's meant that the visit has changed markedly from the bells and whistles, cultural fun affair that it was supposed to be to something far more perfunctory. Mr. Vance, the Vice President, and his wife, Usha, will be visiting the military space base in the northwest of the island.

And they'll be joined also by Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, and also the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright. Now, as your previous guest mentioned, there is a defense treaty between the United States and Denmark, signed in the 1950s, which means that the United States can, if it wants, expand itself internationally.

Does anyone in Greenland seriously believe that President Trump will take over the island? I don't think it's a matter of seriously believing or not seriously believing. I think Greenlanders are very, very upset by this. I've Greenland is not for sale. They say they feel very uneasy about the political agenda that they believe is behind this visit.