Afghans in Pakistan forced to leave as camp demolished

DW (English)

For decades, Pakistan has hosted millions of Afghan refugees. But as tensions with Kabul rise, Islamabad has ramped up its deportation drive. DW visits an Afghan refugee settlement where houses have been torn down.

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00:00My grandfather, my grandfather and my father died here.

00:24When the government came, I also said that the Afghan are not lawful.

00:32We are in the house of 10 people.

00:34Afghanistan has been seen until now.

00:38I don't know about my home.

00:40I was born here, married here.

00:43I have almost 4 children.

00:46I have 3 children.

00:54Basically, the Afghan camp was established in 1985 and it housed more than 30,000 Ruvan

01:17like Afghan people who came after the war in Afghanistan, so these people were mostly illegal

01:24immigrants from Afghanistan.

01:26So presently, the government of Pakistan has decided that they should go back to Afghanistan

01:31and it was a clear-cut policy at the part of the government of Pakistan.

01:35So we started this operation in three phases and with the help of the district administration,

01:41we are successful in extraditing more than 95% of the Afghan back to Afghanistan.

01:47Again, the government of Pakistan has been going with us, from our country as for

01:54Pakistan and Vietnam.

01:55When we started this year, they arrived after the war in here.

01:56The government of Pakistan is now taking place on the war in Afghanistan and in the

02:01ysztofels.

02:02We have elected officials who are elected officials who come and have their own

02:06team members who go to the front and the front and the front and the front of the

02:11government of Pakistan and the first government of Pakistan.

02:14There is no doubt that they are living here since past so many years, they got married

02:37over here, they got children over here, they got the families, they got the jobs, they

02:42got the businesses over there, but unfortunately they could not be the Pakistani citizens in

02:46these past 50 years because there was no policy to do that.

02:49So we have to, the policy was very much clear that they have to go back to the Afghanistan.

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