Now she has become a symbol of a return to Afghanistan that hundreds of thousands of refugees are undertaking after decades away. A LONG ROAD HOMEGula was arrested late 2016 for using a forged Pakistani identity card—a common practice among the one million Afghan refugees who live in the country without legal status. At the time, she was raising four children and was suffering from hepatitis C, which killed her husband years earlier. After being detained for two weeks Gula was released and returned to Afghanistan with her children. “I’ve said repeatedly, and I like to repeat it again, that our country is incomplete until we absorb all of our refugees.”

Source: The Express Tribune December 16, 2017 06:46 UTC