Afghan refugee children portraits

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    Afghan refugee children portraits

    Afghan refugee girl, Khalzarin Zirgul, 6, holds her cousin, Zaman, 3 months, as they pose for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

    For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world’s largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting their country has undergone.

    Since the 2002 U.S.- led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the U.N.’s refugee agency. (AP)

    Photography by Muhammed Muheisen

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