Pakistan’s impressive refugee history

Pakistan has an impressive history as hosting country for Afghan refugees since the 1970s, mainly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on New Year’s Eve in 1979, justified by a friendship treaty of 1978 between the countries, and USSR feared that Afghanistan might change loyalty to the West. Further conflicts followed in Afghanistan ...

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