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    8 months ago

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    In October, the Pakistani government gave 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or face arrest and forced deportation.

    Videos shared on social media show bulldozers leveling to the ground mud-made houses of Afghan refugees while women, men, and children watch in despair.

    On Thursday, thousands of poor and exhausted refugees and their families flocked to the borders, fearing the Pakistani government’s detention and forced deportation as the Nov. 1 deadline passed.

    Nilab (not her real name) is a women’s rights and girls’ education activist who’s been living in hiding with her underage son in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, for over a year now.

    The United Nations officials said they were “extremely alarmed” by Pakistan’s collective punishment of nearly 2 million Afghan refugees as winter approaches, and expressed concerns over rights violations of those at risk.

    “Those at particular risk are: civil society activists, journalists, human rights defenders, former government officials and security force members, and of course women and girls as a whole, who, as a result of the abhorrent policies currently in place in Afghanistan, are banned from secondary and tertiary education, working in many sectors and other aspects of daily and public life.”


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