Drought and Hardship Forcing Afghans Home

Eager to return to Afghanistan, Shahjahan said that she and her family would leave without UN assistance if they did not receive help soon. Although the Afghan mother of four has lived in the Loralai Afghan refugee camp, 250 km outside the southern Pakistani city of Quetta for 21 years, she now prayed to go home. “We have had enough,” she said, weeping. “Our men have been forced out of work because of the drought.” Asked how she would cope with the strict rules imposed on women by Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, Shahjahan insisted that her life would still be better in her homeland.
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