Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Rainbow paint job to 'cheer up' people in Kabul - BBC News" video.

  1. Before the western invasion of Afghanistan, the Red Cross predicted hundreds of thousands of Afghan's would flee the country. In reality, once the Taliban were removed from power, hundreds of thousands of Afghans actually returned to Afghanistan. 'After the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001, over 5 million Afghans were repatriated through the UNHCR from Pakistan and Iran to Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans began returning to Afghanistan in recent years. According to the United Nations, by the end of 2016 about 600,000 documented and undocumented Afghans were repatriated from Pakistan. According to the IOM, the return of undocumented Afghan refugees from Pakistan in 2016 were more than twice the number of 2015, increased by 108 per cent from 2015 (around 248,054 versus 119,279). The remaining registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan numbers around 1.3 million. In the same year, UNHCR reported that 951,142 Afghans were living in Iran. Most of them were born and raised in Pakistan and Iran in the last three and a half decades but are still considered citizens of Afghanistan' - Wiki Cynicism about western involvement might be popular amongst some in the west, but the Afghans are voting with their feet!
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