‘Kill me here, but I am not going back’: An Afghan refugee in Pakistan | Refugees

Islamabad, Pakistan – On a current October night, 41-year-old Shakira Aslami was washing dishes within the tiny kitchen of her two-room condo when she heard a commotion exterior.

As she opened the door, her son rushed in. “They’re right here, the police are right here,” Milad instructed his mom in a panic.

Shakira knew what she needed to do: she searched the condo for the bag that contained her household’s most prized possessions – their passports and visa papers – whereas her daughter, Lima, saved watch from the stairwell as three cops made their method by means of the constructing.

“I might…