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Articles with tag: Refugees

Nabil and Fatima

Shakuntala Rao   Jun 25, 2009   interacts: 17

Approximately 9,000 Afghan refugees continue to live in Delhi today. After years of lobbying by various NGOs, Indian government is now allowing some of these families to become naturalized citizens.

Good on ya Bangladesh!

Ahmer Muzammil   Sep 28, 2007   interacts: 88

Thank you Bangladesh for having the moral courage to resolve a humanitarian crisis by granting citizenship to those unfortunate soles who are famously known as “stranded Pakistanis�.

Aftershocks and Afterthoughts

Bina Shah   Nov 3, 2005   interacts: 17

I used to have a poster up in my room that illustrated the plight of the world’s refugees, and a slogan that I think applies perfectly to this situation: 'Desperate Millions on the Move'.

How green is their valley?

Farzana Versey   Jul 25, 2005   interacts: 232

This was not 1947. People had begun to move things. Every Kashmiri Pandit had two-three bags. They were rehabilitated within a year. Our education is our strength. You won't find a jobless Pandit. Ghar khadey kar diye eik saal mein.

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