A short drive from the heavily secured five-star Islamabad hotel where internati...
ISLAMABAD - A short drive from the heavily secured five-star Islamabad hotel where international VIPs will discuss the future of Afghan refugees on Monday, 20-year old Ahmed Khan Younis lives in a makeshift settlement where the houses are made of mud.
“I want to tell these leaders to bring peace to our country, so we can go,” he said, adding he was worried about how he could complete his dream of studying to become an engineer. But the prospect of a peace pact is raising more questions than answers, refugees and humanitarian agencies say, when it comes to the future of Afghan refugees – one of the largest and most protracted displacements in modern history.
“This is the generation that’s going to build Afghanistan... it’s really important not just from the refugee perspective but for the stability, peace, security perspective to invest,” Indrika Ratwatte, the Asia director of UNHCR, told Reuters.The two-day conference, including U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterrez and the U.S.
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