Afghan returnee

[marwat]

Afghan women cover their faces at their temporary home in Kabul. They are among nearly 90,000 Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan in recent months



Some returnees have made makeshift dwellings on government land on the outskirts of Kabul.



Many returnees say that in Pakistan, they have been subject to beatings, detentions by police, and evictions from their homes. The police crackdown began after the December 2014 attack on a school in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, which killed 150 people, mostly children. The attack was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.



Many returnees live on meager handouts from the government and foreign aid groups



Naimatullah was running a school for Afghan refugees in the Pakistani town of Sialkot. Now he lives in a refugee camp outside Kabul.



Latifa (left), a mother of five, was evicted from her home in Darra Adam Khel, a town in northwest Pakistan, where she had lived for nearly 20 years.



Some families have been lucky enough to bring their belongings, but many left Pakistan with little more than the clothes on their backs.



Pakistan has issued a December 31 deadline for the return of all 3.5 million Afghan refugees residing there.



A refugee woman shows henna decorations on her hands



Eight-year-old Negin fled the Pakistani city of Gujrat two months ago with her parents and two sisters.



Haji Khanzada, a local elder, provides food and water for the returnees.

[tilla_jogian]

Can anyone explain me why they are living in refugee camps IN AFGHANISTAN?

[Adam]

Can anyone explain me why they are living in refugee camps IN AFGHANISTAN?

Is that a serious question? Because there's currently a war going on and the government doesn't have the resources to accommodate them...

[tilla_jogian]

Is that a serious question? Because there's currently a war going on and the government doesn't have the resources to accommodate them...

ab aur kitna arsa war ka dhandhora piton ghe tum logh. War was over decades ago, are you telling me millions of Afghanis in Pakistan do not have their own homes/zameen to fall back on when returning? These people are essentially landless at this point?

[HalloIsBack]

[MENTION=18475]marwat[/MENTION]
question about land and pashtunspashtuns live in tribes and have got their own land, there are also fights because of the land
people are forced to leave their land
what happened to this land? do othe rpeopel live there? are not there any fights if the people coem back?
how can the afghan governemnt distribute land if this land belongs to a certain tribe?

[Adam]

ab aur kitna arsa war ka dhandhora piton ghe tum logh. War was over decades ago, are you telling me millions of Afghanis in Pakistan do not have their own homes/zameen to fall back on when returning? These people are essentially landless at this point?

Do you think there's just a couple hundred thousand empty homes lying around spare?

[Samandri]

ab aur kitna arsa war ka dhandhora piton ghe tum logh. War was over decades ago, are you telling me millions of Afghanis in Pakistan do not have their own homes/zameen to fall back on when returning? These people are essentially landless at this point?

Its a good question. I wonder what happened to their ancestral lands in their villages. Perhaps occupied by their neighbors who stayed behind instead of fleeing. Or may be they landed in the outskirts of city , to make livelihood.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Good for them.

[jankhan]

Afghans should and must make themselves strong like Iran so that no one could interfere in their country and they become an honorable nation.

[tilla_jogian]

Its a good question. I wonder what happened to their ancestral lands in their villages. Perhaps occupied by their neighbors who stayed behind instead of fleeing. Or may be they landed in the outskirts of city , to make livelihood.

Don't they have some kind of patwari system to verify ownership?

[randolph85]

Assuming that they were land owners, their lands if they had any were not taken over by others, that documents still exist, that their families back home still exist.

[Samandri]

Don't they have some kind of patwari system to verify ownership?

This books say that land records in Afghanistan were nearly destroyed in three decade conflict, were burnt, eaten by mice or completely destroyed . It is evident that after civil war, Taliban didn't do any thing about it and pushed the country into ancient times. I doubt the situation has improved.

There was an article about Afghan refugees by Rahimullah Yusufzai in which he says that refugees , during their decades long displacement and life in tents, have lost their history and genealogies, their young generation is unable to tell much about their roots. Lack traditions and customs that are characteristic of settled rural population. An Afghan refugee returning to his grandfather's village, would feel foreigner there.

[کیش]

some of my cousins who were born and raised in Peshawer have made the move back to Afghanistan. And now their village is already under control of the Taliban at night. And the government during the day, Thanks Pakistan.

And congrats to Pakistan for making it legal to be Transgenders. You are really a progressive society.