Saturday, March 17, 2018

Afghan Refugess Are Returning Home To Rebuild

An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan January 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

The Guardian: Pressure builds in 'powderkeg' Kabul as refugees return home

As Pakistan deports thousands of Afghans, informal settlements are adding to the intense strain on Kabul’s resources – with potentially disastrous results

Racing against the setting sun to wind up the day’s labour, Shukour takes a few steps back and surveys his construction site. As the dust from the drilling settles back on the 50 square metres of rock that will become the foundations of his new house in Kabul, he stops work and talks about the home he fled as an eight-year-old.

“Our Panjshir is as beautiful as India’s Kashmir,” he says, framed against a rash of grey matchbox huts vying for very available inch before the hillside falls steeply away. “It was God’s own valley until the reign of fire.”

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WNU Editor: Kabul has certainly changed since 9/11 .... Kabul – the fifth fastest growing city in the world – is bursting at the seams (The Guardian).

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