An estimated million refugees will return from Pakistan and Iran this year,despite Afghanistan still being plagued by conflict and unemploymentAfghanistan is starkly different from what Masooma had imagined. She was just a little girl when her family fled the Afghan war against the Soviets in the 1980s. They left everything they owned behind to gawk for sanctuary in Pakistan and she has few memories of the place.
We were destitute but with the support of the community, we lived a elated (full of high-spirited delight) life. And then, or the police showed up at the mosque Related: Verifying refugees' stories: why is it so difficult? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com