Life of a refugee in Pakistan

AP Published August 6, 2014

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For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world’s largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country.

Since the 2002 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the UN’s refugee agency, but thousands of others still live without electricity, running water and other basic services.

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Ahmer

Aug 06, 2014 10:35pm

However dismal their lives, the refugees are still better off in these camps than they can ever be in Afghanistan in thr foreseeable future.

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arshy

Aug 07, 2014 02:39am

these photos just makes me want to pray to Allah for all the blessings I have today. may allah give to all that need his help and guide everyone in path of the righteous. it's truly sad to watch kids who deserve so much from the world and have so little in their midst ..

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AK Man

Aug 08, 2014 08:00am

@ahmer Life in Afghanistan is much better than this. You should be worried how life in Pakistan will be in a few years. Maybe this is a reflection of it. P.S. think before you speak! These Afghans deserve much better than this. But Pakistan's disastrous foreign policy has resulted in this! Just for your information I'm a Pakistani.

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zack

Aug 08, 2014 08:19pm

This is because the leaders in Pakistan stole the aid money that belonged to these people!!!!! Shame on the leadership of Pakistan.

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Rev. Eldrick Lal

Aug 08, 2014 10:00pm

I'm very sad to see these pictures in which most refugees are living in squalid place in the poorest part of the capital city

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Haider Rehman

Aug 08, 2014 10:14pm

@AK Man This foreign policy was created by a dictator, Zia; not corrected by political dictators. And we are paying the price for this turmoil in Pakistan...

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Haider Rehman

Aug 08, 2014 10:15pm

@zack Aid money was for fighting the war fyi.

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Ali

Aug 10, 2014 04:17pm

The refugees and villagers both live in the same manner, it is their way of life both in Afghanistan and Paksitan.

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Ali S

Aug 11, 2014 01:23am

Pakistan is paying a long and heavy price for its meddling in post-Soviet Afghanistan. The only thing we've gotten in return are refugees, heroin, Kalashnikov culture, extremism and other assorted lowlife criminals. And Afghanistan is as volatile as it's ever been - it's a hopeless place that Pakistan should have never considered as its backdoor territory.

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Mubashir

Aug 11, 2014 09:04am

Thank Allah for Allah blessing upon us that we are free country as firstly we were saved from Soviet Union by Ziaul-Haque though we suffered very much then again from war on terror by Musharraf for which we paid very high price,we are still paying price as Afghans are not going back which causes our security deteritation.We pray to Allah to keep our country free for lift Aameen

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