A baby sleeps fitfully in a tent in a desolate border camp, rocked softly on his mother’s knees with a fly on his nose, while his family gets ready to leave the waypoint to start over in Afghan.
Many of the blue tents at the base of rocky mountains, stark against a cloudless sky, have already emptied in the transit camp at Torkham, where returnees driven out of Pakistan suffer in the heat of the day and chill through the night.
Vehicles brimming with multiple households, laden with pillows, vibrant blankets, and kitchenware, are prepared to embark. Since Pakistan ordered individuals without documentation to leave, at least 210,000 Afghans, many of whom have lived decades, if not their entire lives, outside of their country, have crossed via the Torkham border crossing, according to border officials.
For plenty, nothing, and nobody is in store for them. Sher Aga, a former security guard in Pakistan, said, “We have nowhere to go, we don’t have a house or land, and I don’t have any work. “He packed up his nine kids and the entire family’s possessions into a vehicle and drove north to his birthplace of Kunduz province. Yet, the 43-year-old, who fled Afghanistan when he was five, has no recollection of his native country. He told AFP, “I don’t have any family there anymore.” “My children ask me, ‘What country are we going to?'”
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