Almost 90,000 Afghan refugees have returned from Pakistan to their home country in recent months. Many claim to have been beaten by police, detained, and evicted from their homes in Pakistan, which has set a December 31 deadline for the return of all Afghan refugees still living there. (Photos by Vaiva Katinaityte)
Afghan Refugees Flock Home Amid Crackdown In Pakistan
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Naimatullah was running a school for Afghan refugees in the Pakistani town of Sialkot. Now he lives in a refugee camp outside Kabul.
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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.
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Returnees have little access to shelter, water, or medicine. These children, all born to Afghan families in Pakistan, can't go to school in Kabul because they do not have Afghan identity cards.
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Some families have been lucky enough to bring their belongings, but many left Pakistan with little more than the clothes on their backs.