ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan said Wednesday it has urged the Arab states of Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, who want some of their nationals living in Pakistan to be sent home, to sign extradition treaties.
'We sent a delegation to these three stats with copies of extradition treaties but so far we have not received their response,' Foreign Secretary Shaharyar Khan told a news conference.
Pakistan also set a Jan. 31 deadline for all Arab nationals in the country without valid documents to leave or be expelled.
The three Arab states have urged Pakistan to extradite some of their nationals they say are using Pakistani territory to plot sabotage in the Middle East.
Hundreds of Arabs came to Pakistan during the Afghan War and some of them settled in Afghanistan and Pakistan's northwest frontier province after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.
Officially, there are 300 to 400 such Arabs in Pakistan, but Pakistani officials say most of them have left since the government set the deadline about two weeks ago.
'Those who are left will be made to go,' said Khan.
