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PILDAT says Feb 8 polls record lowest fairness score since 2013

  The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.

Afghan refugees Surging into Pakistan, Karachi



US President Joe Biden’s withdrawal announcement Declaring that it is time “to end America’s longest war,” Biden said 2,500 US troops plus a further 7,000 from NATO allies would gradually leave the country starting on May 1 And then soon taliban overpowered and captured the Capital.

Nestled on the northern outskirts of Pakistan’s most populous city of Karachi, this run-down locality with limited access to healthcare and basic sanitation is home to nearly 250,000 Afghan and many more refugees may come with this newborn crisis of because of The Shift In power.

Since the Taliban have came into power their are many different views as in if this is a Good or a bad omen.

"It is more than a good news that my homeland will be free from foreign troops," Haji Ubaidullah, a leader of Afghan refugees, told Anadolu Agency.



Karachi is home to more than 300,000 Afghan refugees, most of whom work as laborers or own small shops mainly in Pashtun-dominated areas.

Terming the withdrawal plan a "ray of hope", he said, "No one can wish for peace more than Afghans, who have lived under the shadows of fear and homelessness."

"It has been over 40 years, I am away from my soil. I wish I could live the rest of my life in my homeland. I want to be buried in my own soil," said Ubaidullah, who owns a small construction business.

"I want to take my grandchildren to their homeland in my lifetime," an emotional Ubaidullah went on to say.

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