Former schoolteacher Zarghona Hamidi is teaching young Afghan refugee women in Peshawar, Pakistan, how to make fashion jewelry so they can support their families.
After tighter restrictions on cross-border movement were implemented, Afghan cancer patients say they are struggling to enter Pakistan for treatment.
Speaking during the press conference on “The Power of Inclusion: Afghan Women and Regional Prosperity” is Asila Wardak, a former director general of UN affairs in the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Two years ago, Fatima Amiri and her family fled Afghanistan for Pakistan because the Taliban government would not allow her and her sisters to go to school. But going to school is impossible, she says, even in their new country.
After fleeing Taliban repression back home, a former political reporter for TOLOnews in Afghanistan found a new job with a Canadian broadcaster.
The Pakistan’s government started deporting Afghans who had been living there illegally on November 1. Since then, thousands of refugees have returned to Afghanistan and living near the border in makeshift camps. These family say that with winter is approaching, they need jobs and housing.
The ongoing deportations of undocumented Afghan refugees by Pakistan, according to the Afghan owners of textile mills there, have left them with multiple problems in operating their businesses.
Pakistan has decided to forcibly deport all undocumented refugees starting on November 1. Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have expressed concern about this decision.
For the last three years, Inayat Amran, a resident of the eastern province of Khost, has been working as a poliovirus vaccination volunteer.There are just two countries in the world where polio is still endemic: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
All illegal immigrants must leave Pakistan willingly by November 1 or face deportation, according to Pakistani authorities. The Afghan population, many of whom fled their country after the Taliban captured power in August 2021, are those who will be most affected by the new order.