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Peshawar High Court has temporarily halted the deportation of 86 Afghan medical students studying in public sector colleges across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, allowing them to continue their studies. The court issued a stay order after petitioners argued that they had been unlawfully interrupted in their education due to letters from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) requiring them to discontinue their studies and leave Pakistan immediately. A hearing is set for October 12, with instructions that the students should not be deported until then.
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In Peshawar, the Peshawar High Court has halted the deportation of 86 Afghan medical students studying in public sector medical colleges across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. A bench consisting of Justices Wiqar Ahmad and Farah Jamshed issued notices to federal officials, including the interior secretary and immigration director general, to provide comments on a petition filed by these students. The court allowed the students to continue their studies until October 12, when the next hearing is scheduled. This decision follows an earlier similar case brought forward by another Afghan student, Seemen Noori.
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Peshawar High Court has temporarily stopped deportation of 86 Afghan students studying in different public sector medical colleges in the province and allowed them to continue their studies.
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them → stop → studies
A bench consisting of Justice Wiqar Ahmad and Justice Farah Jamshed issued notices to respondents including the federal interior secretary, director general of immigration and passport and Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s registrar, seeking their comments in a petition filed jointly by the said 86 students including Selsela Dost and others.
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bench → consist → Dost
The bench fixed Oct 12 for next hearing of the petition with the direction that in the meanwhile, petitioners should not be deported till the next date of hearing.
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petitioners → fix → hearing
“They shall be allowed to continue their studies, if there is no other reason for discontinuation of their studies,” the bench directed.
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bench → allow → studies
The bench also ordered to club the instant petition with an earlier one filed by another Afghan student Seemen Noori on the same issue.
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bench → order → issue
Allows them to continue studies in medical colleges of KP
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them → allow → KP
The petitioners have sought multiple reliefs from the court, seeking declaration that the two impugned letters issued by PMDC on July 31, 2026, and Sept 1, 2026, insofar as they required the petitioners to discontinue their studies and immediately leave Pakistan, as illegal, arbitrary and of no legal effect.
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they → seek → effect
They sought directives of the court for medical and dental colleges in the province to allow the petitioners to smoothly continue their studies, without interruption merely on account of the impugned PMDC letters/circulars or pendency of their visa-extension applications.
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petitioners → seek → applications
Advocate Waseemuddin Khattak appeared for the petitioners and stated that his clients had been granted admission against Afghan quota seats into various medical and dental colleges across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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clients → appear → Pakhtunkhwa
He stated that petitioners had been studying in different professional years in medical and dental colleges, where after Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) by passing an impugned order had cancelled all admissions of Afghan students across the country.
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Council → state → country
He pointed out that on Sept 11, 2026, Lahore High Court granted interim relief to several Afghan students studying in its jurisdiction by suspending operation on the impugned order of PMDC.
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Court → point → PMDC
Mr Khattak said that the petitioners were Afghan nationals, who lawfully entered Pakistan on valid student visas for the purpose of medical education.
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who → say → education
He stated that they were aggrieved by the unlawful interruption of their ongoing studies pursuant to the impugned letters issued by PMDC.
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they → state → PMDC
The counsel argued that his clients had been condemned unheard and their rights to education, life and dignity had been violated as the council had transgressed its jurisdiction under PMDC Act, 2023.
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council → argue → Act
He said that petitioners’ fundamental rights should be treated in accordance with law.
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rights → say → law
He argued that PMDC’s powers under law must be exercised within the bounds of the Constitution and Pakistan’s international legal obligations.
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powers → argue → Constitution
He stated neither the 2023 Act nor constitutional or international principles permitted the council to act arbitrarily, particularly against students, who had already spent years pursuing their medical education in this province.
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who → state → province
It merits a mention that the high court has on Sept 23 stopped law enforcement agencies from arresting or deporting 17 Afghan doctors serving in two private hospitals of the provincial capital and allowed them to continue their post graduate training here.
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them → merit → training
The order was issued in a petition jointly filed by 17 trainee medical officers including Mohammad Idrees and others, challenging the PMDC letters and consequential circulars issued on Sept 2, 2026, by two private hospitals for discontinuation of the petitioners’ duties/FCPS training.
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order → issue → training
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