UNHCR returnees at Mohajir Qeshlaq, Sholgara District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on Monday, October 6, 2008. The families face desperate conditions with winter coming, unable to build homes due to unresolved land issues. Many are making bricks from the earth but are unable to build. Young men are returning to Pakistan for work, while others are laboring in the cornfields attempting to feed their family...Background: In early summer 2008, around 150 families returned to Sholgara...
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UNHCR returnees at Mohajir Qeshlaq, Sholgara District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on Monday, October 6, 2008. The families face desperate conditions with winter coming, unable to build homes due to unresolved land issues. Many are making bricks from the earth but are unable to build. Young men are returning to Pakistan for work, while others are laboring in the cornfields attempting to feed their family...Background: In early summer 2008, around 150 families returned to Sholgara district from Jalozai camp in Pakistan. They had acquired a piece of land before return, but due to ethnic tension the surrounding communities fiercely opposed the settlement of Pashtuns in their midst. For 4 months they lived in a camp-like situation in Sholgara centre but now the government has identified a piece of land for them in Mohajir Qeshlaq. This year UNHCR was unable to include them in its shelter program due to the unsettled land issue, but they are expected to be included in the 2009 shelter program. .
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