Editing Pakistan (section)

=== Immigration ===
{{Main|Immigration to Pakistan}}
[[File:Refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan, near Islamabad.jpg|thumb|left|Afghan children near [[Islamabad]] fetching water from water pump. (Pakistan hosts the second largest refugee population globally after Turkey.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1188585 |title=Pakistan hosts second largest refugee population globally |last=Rafi |first=Yumna |date=17 June 2015 |newspaper=DAWN.COM|access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref>)]]

Even post-1947 partition, the Muslims from India kept migrating to Pakistan, especially Karachi and Sindh province.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Khalidi |first=Omar |date=1 January 1998 |title=From torrent to trickle: Indian Muslim migration to Pakistan, 1947–97 |journal=Islamic Studies |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=339–352 |jstor=20837002}}</ref> Wars in neighboring Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s pushed millions of [[Afghan refugees]] into Pakistan, mainly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and [[Federally Administered Tribal Areas|tribal areas]], with some in Karachi and Quetta. Pakistan hosts one of the world's largest refugee populations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ten countries host half of world's refugees: report |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/ten-countries-host-world-refugees-report-161004042014076.html|access-date=30 April 2017 |work=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=4 October 2016}}</ref> Additionally, around 2&nbsp;million [[Bangladeshis in Pakistan|Bangladeshis]] and half a million undocumented individuals, purportedly from [[Myanmar]], reside in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/322325/five-million-illegal-immigrants-residing-in-pakistan/ |title=Five million illegal immigrants residing in Pakistan |date=16 January 2012 |newspaper=Express Tribune|access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref> In October 2023, Pakistan ordered the deportation of thousands undocumented refugees, citing security concerns.<ref>{{cite news |title='What's wrong?': The silence of Pakistanis on expulsion of Afghan refugees |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/22/whats-wrong-the-silence-of-pakistanis-on-expulsion-of-afghan-refugees |work=Al Jazeera |date=22 November 2023}}</ref>

Migration of Bengalis and [[Rohingya people|Rohingya]] to Pakistan started in the 1980s and continued till 1998. Karachi hosts a significant number of Bengali settlements, and large Rohingya migration made it one of their largest populations outside Myanmar.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1165299 |title=Identity issue haunts Karachi's Rohingya population |last=Rehman |first=Zia Ur |date=23 February 2015 |work=Dawn |quote=Their large-scale migration had made Karachi one of the largest Rohingya population centres outside Myanmar but afterwards the situation started turning against them.|access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref> Karachi's [[Burmese people|Burmese]] community resides in various slums across the city.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-rohingyas-of-karachi/ |title=The Rohingyas of Karachi |last=Khan |first=Naimat |date=12 June 2015}}</ref>

According to [[BBC World Service|BBC]], thousands of [[Uyghurs|Uyghur]] Muslims live in Gilgit-Baltistan, some left Xinjiang, China and the thriving trading town of Kashgar in 1949, while others are later arrivals, claiming to escape political oppression.<ref>{{Cite news |title=How the Uighurs keep their culture alive in Pakistan |last=Jaffrey |first=Shumaila |date=12 August 2015 |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33775646 |quote=Insa is one of a few thousand Uighur Muslims who live in Gilgit. The community is a mix of generations. Some left Xinjiang and the thriving trading town of Kashgar in 1949, while others are later arrivals. All say they were forced to leave as they were the victims of cultural and religious oppression in China.|access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref> Since 1989, thousands of [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] Muslim refugees fled to Pakistan, alleging rape and forced displacement by Indian soldiers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Istvan |first=Zoltan |date=13 March 2003 |work=National Geographic |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0313_030313_tvpakirefugees_2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305173913/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0313_030313_tvpakirefugees_2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2010 |title=Refugee Crisis Worsening In Western Kashmir |quote=The refugees claim that Indian soldiers forced them out of their homes&nbsp;... For Kashmiri Muslims, Pakistan appeared safer than Indian-held Kashmir&nbsp;... "She was also raped by the soldiers," Ahmad said. "Many of the other female refugees were also raped."|access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref>