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Published 06 Aug, 2014 08:09pm

Life of a refugee in Pakistan

For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world’s largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country.

Since the 2002 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the UN’s refugee agency, but thousands of others still live without electricity, running water and other basic services.

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