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Pakistan orders Afghan refugees to leave or face deportation

Following the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban takeover, hundreds of thousands of Afghans sought safe haven in Pakistan. Many spent years working with the U.S. and Afghan government and fled a Taliban crackdown. But as Nick Schifrin reports, they are on the run again after Pakistan began implementing its threat to deport more than a million undocumented Afghan refugees.

Pakistan orders Afghan refugees to leave or face deportation

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