Immigration to Pakistan

The largest group of immigrants in Pakistan is Bangladeshi, followed by Afghan, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Indian, Sri Lankan, Burmese[5][6] and Briton.

[7] Other expatriate communities in Pakistan are Chechens, Filipinos, Turks, Persian, Chinese,[8] Americans,[9] previously Bosnian refugees,[10] and many others.

Migrants from different countries of Arab World, especially Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, are in the thousands.

Sheikh Muhammad Feroze, the chairman of the Pakistani Bengali Action Committee, claimed that there were 200 settlements of Bengali-speaking people in Pakistan, of which 132 are in Karachi.

[13] Thousands of Uyghur Muslims have also migrated to the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, some of them with links to terror groups in Xinjiang, China.

[23][24][25] It was reported a decade ago that thousands of citizens from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan[26][27][28] were residing in Karachi without legal documentation.

This action was taken following the bomb attack and targeted killings of political activists in the city, against foreign militants operating in Pakistan.