Afghan refugees resemble people living in the northwest Pashtun belt of Pakistan located near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Their language and culture are almost the same, making it easy for the refugees to penetrate into Pakistan. Afghan refugees who were repatriated to their country took many c...
“Afghans promised safe haven in Britain but trapped in Pakistan have been arrested by police amid fears refugees could be returned to the Taliban… Hundreds of Afghan families, many of whom worked for the British army, have been stranded in Islamabad for months after the UK stopped chartering ...
In late 2023, Pakistan started a controversialprogram to expel Afghan refugeeswho lack documentation, fueling fears in particular for LGBTQ refugees like Laila Khan and Jannat, young transgender women who met with CBS News at a guesthouse where they've been living in Pakistan's capital Islamab...
Laila, whose name has been changed for safety concerns, is among thousands of Afghan refugees who have found a temporary home cycling through the "Aman Omid Village" on Holloman Air Force Base, one of several military installations in the U.S. designated to provide housin...
The target of Soviet and Afghan fighters and bombers were Afghan refugees camps on Pakistan side of the border.[243] These attacks are known to have caused at least 300 civilian deaths and extensive damage. Sometimes they got involved in shootings with the Pakistani jets defending the airspace....
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The impact of those two visits on her, she said, has been intense. Unplanted lands, devastated crops, “internal refugees” (she says there are estimates of 1 million) rebuilding in the rubble or in the mountains, a deserted and bombed village where the only living thing appeared to be on...
The reality of it all, however, is so much harsher than that. Senior military leaders have performed poorly. War crimes have been covered up. Wars fought in the name of helping others have produced horrendouscivilian casualtiesandstunning numbersof refugees. Even as those wars were being lost,...
Advertisement The mines are also the principal reason why few, if any, of the 3 million Afghan refugees who have been living for years in the squalor of Pakistani border camps are returning to their villages, despite the Soviet troop withdrawal. ...
Last July he enraged leaders of the fundamentalist groups by publishing a survey of 2,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He said it showed that 71% them would support the return of King Zahir Shah. The king, who lives in Rome, is despised by the fundamentalists, particularly Hizb-i-Islami’...