Attending their last lessons for the foreseeable future, Afghan girls in Pakistan face being forced to return to a country where they are barred from a secondary education under the Taliban government, as Islamabad launches an unprecedented crackdown on the 1.7 million Afghans it says live illegally in Pakistan.
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00:00 [speaking in foreign language]
00:03 - If they deport us in Afghanistan,
00:23 surely we'll go to Afghanistan, but we don't want this.
00:26 Like, every Afghan don't want to go back to Afghanistan.
00:29 Afghanistan doesn't have any good situation,
00:31 not even for girls.
00:32 Like, they couldn't walk freely.
00:36 They don't have freedom at all.
00:38 Every day when we are coming to school,
00:40 we are coming by a terrifying,
00:42 terrifying, like, you know, the,
00:46 like, we are all, like, all the students are terrified,
00:48 like, if police came here, or if police will come,
00:52 or we will be arrested, and, you know,
00:54 the thoughts are making really so annoying to us.
00:58 It's so annoying.
00:59 We couldn't focus in our studies.
01:01 We couldn't focus in our lessons,
01:03 and we don't have a, like, a calm mind.
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01:29 [bell chimes]
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