IceCold
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you are not wrong
the comment you responded to is from someone who has not interacted with the Afghan refugees or immigrants.
his hostility is the result of the Northern alliance leadership who has historic animosity towards Pakistan due to our ties with the Afghan Pashtons (who happen to be their rivals)..
millions of Afghans have lived here for decades and majority has lived peacefully and contributed in the society.
indeed there has been increase in violence, drugs and terrorism because just like any deprived community, they were the first and easy target of the terrorists who recruited them for that purpose.
on other hand.. his comment might be based on personal experience from an Afghan.
Afghanistan is their country and no matter how long they live in Pakistan, they will still be immigrants or refugees. they are a proud nation and would love to return but the on going conflict is not helping.
by the way .. some of the forced deportations and expulsions are politically motivated whenever the ties with Afghanistan regimes suffer. which is really a shame.
Actually i have. I have had friends from school, even collage which were afghan. The problem started when some of them and i have witnessed it myself started calling themselves as pathans and laying claims on Peshwar. I have been witness to a Afghan taxi driver in Islamabad talking about the breakage of Pakistan and may i add this is just a small part of what i have witness personally. So its not about the mentality of the war lords, there thinking is one and the same. Indeed they are ungrateful lot. They are involved in drugs, extortion, murder, terrorism, prostitution and you name it.
I will refrain from further comment on the topic because the more i go into it, the more it aggravates me. I dont want my anger to get the better of me.