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Today, deportations of Afghan refugees are accelerating.

We were given a formal warning, even though we had valid registration papers, they were cancelled,

and we were issued exit documents with a deadline to leave.

We'll look at what's behind the decision to deport millions and whether Afghanistan is safe enough to return to.

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take.

It's such a calamity in a difficult time that not speaking about it kills you,

speaking about it, just lights the world on fire with how dark and sad it is. So I'm Obedullah

Bahia. I am a university lecturer in Afghanistan. I am based in Kabul. Abedallah, welcome to the

take. When we talk about Afghan refugees, who are we referring to and where are they living?

So when we say Afan refugees, we're talking about one of the biggest refugee population in the

world, but majorly this conversation is happening around refugees, settled in Pakistan and

Iran. We have refugees in other neighboring countries as well, but those numbers are not as

significant or even close. And this is a very specific distinction, refugee. These are people who are

fleeing for a number of reasons. One is political. One is economic as well. I mean, we, there were

people who mocked us saying, well, Afghans are people who hate their

country who were willing to hang on to airplanes and fall to their deaths just to get out

of their country.

So my usual answer to them is park an airplane in any of the non-Western world's major cities and tell the people

that they can go to the west, no questions asked if they got on the plane, and then tell me

if the last person leaving turns off the lights or not. So ultimately, the major factor is

economic. People leave their country to find a better life somewhere else.

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