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Title: Refugees%20of%20Afghanistan


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Afghan Refugees
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The Basics
  • Afghanistan is an extremely poor, landlocked
    country.
  • People are motivated to leave due to political
    and economic conditions.
  • 900,000 estimated to be internally displaced,
    with further hundreds of thousands fleeing to the
    surrounding countries of Pakistan and Iran.
  • 3.6 million refugees still living in Pakistan
    from the 1979-89 Soviet invasion.

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Reasons for leaving Afghanistan
  • 40 of Afghanistans population live below the UN
    poverty line
  • Political and economic hardship combined with
    repeated famines has made migration the only
    option for millions of impoverished Afghans
  • Protracted civil war
  • The nation is in the midst of its worst drought
    in 30 years
  • Peoples lives are under threat of further
    American military attacks
  • Appalling child mortality rates, health-care
    provision, and nutrition levels

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Where The Refugees Go
  • 1 The border with Pakistan stretches over 2500km,
    most of which is mountainous terrain.
    Approximately 250,000 people tried to cross the
    border in October 2001 alone
  • 2 Iran currently has more than 1.7 million
    refugees from Afghanistan
  • 3 At Peshawar the UN Food Aid Agency provides
    monthly food rations to 57,000 in two camps

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Where The Refugees Go
  • 4 At Jalozai, a makeshift refugee camp
    established in November 2000, and closed February
    2002, more than 100,000 refugees lived.
    Conditions in the camp were poor, with a severe
    lack of shelter, food, or decent medical
    provision.

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Attitude of Afghan Government
  • The new democratic Afghan government is keen to
    see the return of the refugees
  • In economic terms, the displaced millions
    represent a large potential labour force and
    consumer market
  • The rebuilding of the country can only be
    achieved with stability. This comes from
    maintaining a fixed and permanent population

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Attitude of Pakistani Government
  • Pakistan is a poor, heavily populated country,
    suffering from internal political disputes, lack
    of foreign investment, and a costly confrontation
    with neighboring India
  • It has 21bn in foreign debt due in 2002/2003,
    totaling 50 of government expenditure
  • A large proportion of its own people live below
    the UN poverty line
  • Country cannot support the refugees, and the
    government wishes to close the border to them,
    and return the many millions of existing Afghan
    refugees as soon as possible
  • However, international concern has obligated them
    to take a soft approach to refugees from
    Afghanistan

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Webliography
  • pupilvision.com
  • worldvision.org
  • amnesty.org
  • refugees.org
  • english.pravda.ru/war
  • odci.gov/cia/
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