Refugees' forced repatriation to add Afghan govt's burden

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http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=115662

KABUL, August 14 (Online): "Our life in Pakistan was much better than at home. My father worked daily and earned a honorable livelihood there to feed us properly but here we mostly eat a loaf of bread and tea," said a nine-year old Afghan returnee girl Hajira.

Attired in tattered clothes and with a grimy face, the innocent Hajira was dreaming better life for her family into her father's income.

"If my father finds a permanent job then we could have better food, better dress, better accommodation and better school," she said at the compound of her decaying camp.

The poor girl was in the second grade in school when her family returned home from a refugee camp in Pakistan three years ago but now she is sitting in the first grade under a tented school situated in the premises of the shabby camp.