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| Afghan families flee 'persecution' in Pakistan after APS attack, says IOM |
| 2015-02-08 |
| [DAWN] Thousands of Afghan families are fleeing Pakistain to escape harassment after a deadly Taliban attack on a school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in December, the head of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Afghanistan said on Saturday. More than 22,000 undocumented Afghans flocked across the border at Torkham in January, more than twice the figure for the whole of 2014, said Richard Danzinger, the IOM's mission chief in Afghanistan. Almost 1,500 others were deported in the same month, double the number of deportees in December. "It all started with the attack on the school in Peshawar," Danzinger told Rooters. "When something horrible happens, people start taking it out on foreigners." |
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