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BBC“I’m afraid,” Sobs Naved.
The 10-year-old life is limited in his or her room at the House of Islamabad and the dirty road outside of it. Since December he has not been at his local school, if it is decided that it won’t accept afghans without a valid Pakistani birth certificate. But even if he goes to classes, Nadila said he is not.
“I didn’t get sick one day, and I heard the police seeking for children in Afghanistan,” he cried, as he told us his family of his friend.
Not his real name – all names of Afghans quoted in this article have changed for their safety.
The capital of Pakistan and the neighboring town of Rawalpindi witnessed a drainage of expulsion, arrest and arresting Afghans, said the UN. It estimates over half of the three million afghanans in the country has no document.
Afghans describe a constant fear and near the daily police attacks in their homes.
Some tell the BBC they are afraid to kill if they return to Afghanistan. It includes families in a US Recovery program, suspended by Trump administration.
Pakistan was disappointed with how long the relocation programs, says Philippa Candler, the agency representative of the refugees of Islamabad. The International Organization of UN for migration (IOM) says 930 people have been sent back to Afghanistan in the first half of February, double the number two weeks ago. At least 20% of those who are expelled from Islamabad and the documentation from the UN Sfurefe Agency, which means they are recognized as people in need of international protection.
But Pakistan is not a party at the convention of refugees and used to say that afghans do not know that living in the country as refugees. The government says policies aimed at all illegal foreign nationals and a deadline they leave. That date changes but currently set by 31 March for those who do not have valid visas, and 30 June for those with recoil letters.
A lot of afghans are afraid among confusion. They also say that the visa process can be difficult to navigate. Nabila’s family believes there is only one option: hide. Her father Hamid served in the military in Afghanistan, before the Taliban got 2021. He cried with tears that described his nights without sleep.
“I served in my country and now I’m not worth it. That Job stopped me,” he said.
Her family has no visas, and not in a resettlement list. They tell us their phone calls to the UN refugees agency not answered.
The BBC arrived at the agency for commentary.
Taliban government used to say BBC all afghans should return because they “live in the country without fear”. It claims that these refugees are “economic migrants”.
But a UN report 2023 Doubt the securities from the Taliban government. It knows hundreds of government officials and armed forces of government forces said to be killed despite a general amnesty.
Taliban government guarantee is just a small family’s family commitment so they choose to run when the authorities are nearby. Neighbors offer each other to live, because they all try to avoid obedience to Afghanistan.
UN counts 1,245 afghans arrested or arrested in January across Pakistan, more than double the same period last year.
Nabila said Afghans should not be forced outside. “Don’t kick the Afghans in their homes – we’re not here by picking, we’re forced to be here.”
There is a feeling of sadness and loneliness in their home. “I have a friend who is here and then brought to Afghanistan,” said Nabila’s mother.
“She is like a sister, a mother. The day we have been blinded a hard day.”
I asked Nadila what he wanted to do if he was old. “Model,” he said, gives me a serious look. Everything in the room smiles. The stress melts.
Her mother whispering her has many other things she can, an engineer or a lawyer. Nabila’s dream of modeling is the one he cannot underneath the Government of Taliban. In their birthrights in children’s education, his mother’s suggestions can also be impossible.
A new phase
Pakistan has a high record of getting refugees in Afghan. But cross-border attacks go through and stolen tension between two neighbors. Pakistan blamed them with military-based militants, denied by the Taliban government. Since September 2023, the year Pakistan has launched the “restraint plan of illegal foreign,” 836,238 individuals returned to Afghanistan.
Between this current stage of expulsion, some Afghans were held at the Haji camp in Islamabad. Ahmad is in the final stage of the US reset program. He told us when President Donald Trump was suspended for review, he turned out the “last hope” by Ahmad. The BBC sees the appearance of his job letter to a Western, Christian Non-Profit Group in Afghanistan.
A few weeks later, when he was outside shopping, he received call. His three-year-old daughter is on line. “My baby calls, the baby is coming here, the police came to our door,” he said. Her wife’s visa extension was still waiting, and she was busy asking the police.
Ahmad runs home. “I don’t leave them.” He said he was sitting in a van and waiting times as police continued their attack. Her neighbors’ wives and children continue to trick the car. Ahmad began receiving calls from their husbands, begging him to take care of them. They have escaped in the woods.
His family was held for three days of “unthinkable circumstances”, Ahmad said, claiming they were given a blanket each family, and their phones have confiscated. The Pakistani government says this ensures “no one is being bullied or harassed in the process of turning”.
We try to visit the Haji camp to verify Ahmad’s account but deprived entry to authorities. The BBC approaches the Pakistan government and the police for an interview or statement, but no one is available.
Scared of being imprisoned or expelled, some families were chosen to leave Islamabad and Rawalphate. Some tell us that they cannot.
A woman claims to be in the final stage of the US replacement method and decided to act with his two daughters to go west to Islamabad. “I can’t even give bread,” he said.
The BBC detects a document confirming that he has an interview with IOM in early January. He admits that his family still proves almost everyday attacks in his neighborhood.
A spokesperson for the US Embassy of Islamabad says this is “close communication” in Pakistan government “in the status of Afghan Survivors in US Resettlement Patsways”.
Outside the Gates of the Haji camp, a woman is waiting. He told us he had a valid visa but his brother had gone. Her sister now brought inside the camp, with her children. The officials will not allow him to visit his family, and he fears them. He started crying, “If my country is safe, why am I here in Pakistan? And even here we cannot live peacefully.”
He pointed his own daughter sitting in their car. He was a singer in Afghanistan, where a law says that women cannot hear otherwise, let go. I went back to his daughter and ask if he still sings. She looked at. “No.”