1.

Pakistan
hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world
— including approximately one and a half million
documented Afghans(UNHCR)
2.For the past 15 years Afghan migrants have been considered the largest
displaced group in the world (Colleville 1997b)
3.The Danish anthropologist Asgar Christensen (1995) provides one of
the more useful descriptive accounts of the status, problems, and
prospects of these migrants, especially those in Pakistan. The categories
“refugee” and “migrant” are ambiguous. According to the 1951 UN
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is an individual
who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,
religion, nationality, or membership of a particular social group or
political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or
owing to such fears, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that
country (UNHCR 1997:51)
4.