Pakistan Set to Deport Afghans Fearful of Life at Home
- Afghans arrested in Pakistan ahead of Oct. 31 deadline
- Experts say policy is a low point in cross-border relations
Pakistan's Afghan refugees load their belongings onto a bus ahead of their departure to Afghanistan, in Karachi, on Oct. 27.
Photographer: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images
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Amanullah Mughal has spent the past four decades in Karachi’s Malir neighborhood, in a one time refugee camp that is today a bustling informal settlement housing 150,000 people, many fellow Afghans like him.
Rows of concrete houses, some hoisting Pakistani flags, and two police vans mark the entrance of the shanty town. Mughal, 47, says he and many of his neighbors have worked hard to make a life in Pakistan.