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Decades on, Afghans in Pakistan yearn for peace back home
Zakirullah was just 11 years old when he had to move to Pakistan from Badakhshan after Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979. He shudders at night thinking about the sound of bombs and bullets—yet it feels more familiar to him than the cooing of birds. “After I came to Pakistan, one of my brothers was injured in Russian bombardment and he later died of his injuries,” Zakirullah, a teacher in his 50s, tells SAMAA Digital. He is one of the 2.3 million registered Afghan refugees who moved to Pakistan to escape the Russian invasion. Russia may have left Afghanistan now but Zakirullah, who teaches about 350 students a school in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth, couldn’t return to his home. After Russia, the ri

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