The return of the refugees amidst the rising food crisis and instability in Afghanistan will further add to their dilemma

Since December she hasn't been to her local school, when it decided it would no longer accept Afghans without a valid Pakistani birth certificate. But even if she could go to classes, Nabila says she wouldn't.

Afghan refugees seeking resettlement in Pakistan gathered at a cafe in the capital Islamabad to watch their national cricket team play in the elite Champions Trophy for the first time on Friday. But the discussion soon turned to their fears of deportation.

Pakistani and Afghan security forces clashed on Monday at the recently shuttered main border crossing between the two countries, killing at least one combatant and injuring several, officials said. The conflict erupted on the first working day of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan,

Pakistani and Afghan forces traded fire overnight at a key northwestern border crossing that has been closed for more than a week over a dispute between the two neighbors, officials said Monday. The Interior Ministry in Kabul said one Afghan security personnel was killed and another was injured in the incident at the Torkham crossing,