Afghanistan, July 15 -- Pakistani police have detained 13 Afghan doctors and one Afghan medical student in Punjab's Multan city and transferred them to a deportation center, despite the group saying their visa applications have remained pending for nearly a year.

Pakistani police have detained 13 Afghan doctors and one Afghan medical student in Multan, Punjab province, and transferred them to a deportation center, as the detainees say their visa applications have remained unresolved for nearly a year.

The detainees stated on Tuesday, July 14, that police arrested them from a government hospital in Multan before transferring them to a detention facility in Attock, where they now face possible deportation. They said they had applied for new...