This is the Kaderie

podcast for Wednesday, November 8th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown.

There is a massive ejection of Afghans from Pakistan now underway.

Why is it happening?

And what does it say about Pakistan's internal politics?

Cato adjunct scholar Saharkan explains.

Sahar Khan is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.

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Last week, Pakistan had a deadline of November 1st where it had basically told refugee its refugee

population that those who do not have documents should will be evicted or

should leave and that has it's basically around 1.7 million people especially 1.7

million Afghans which is the major refugee population in Pakistan so you're right. It's a massive amount of people

that are being evicted or essentially being deported. So what is driving this?

And why now? I mean, we, Pakistan and Afghanistan have had difficulties in the past, but I think people

people have largely viewed Pakistan as the more civilized country. Is that unfair or is that fair? Well you know I think there are a few

things to unpack here. It's certainly true that Pakistan and Afghanistan have had tumultuous relationships.

But currently in Afghanistan, you have the Taliban in power.

And the Taliban and the Pakistani governments

or the Pakistani military have always been friendly.

And even the current Taliban government has a good relation with Pakistan,

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