Children of war. These images taken between Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 and Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, show Afghan refugee children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the worlds largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country. Since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million have returned home. But nearly 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees remain in Pakistan, with roughly another million living here illegally AP
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:41:19 +0000