A nongovernmental organization says a quarter of a million Afghan children need education, food and homes after being forcibly returned from Pakistan
A quarter of a million Afghan children need education, food and homes after being forcibly returned from Pakistan, a nongovernmental organization said Thursday. Pakistan is cracking down on foreigners it alleges are in the country illegally, including 1.7 million Afghans. It insists the campaign is not directed against Afghans specifically, but they make up most of the foreigners in the country. More than 520,000 Afghans have left Pakistan since last October.
In Pakistan, more than two-thirds of these children had been attending school, it said. An additional obstacle facing child returnees is the ban on girls attending school beyond sixth grade in Afghanistan. Arshad Malik, Save the Children country director for Afghanistan, said the return of so many people was creating an additional strain on already overstretched resources. “Many undocumented Afghan children were born in Pakistan,” he said. “Afghanistan is not the place they call home.
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