{"id":1290,"date":"2026-02-01T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:38:59","slug":"afghan-returnees-in-bamiyan-struggle-despite-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Afghan returnees in Bamiyan struggle despite new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BAMIYAN \u2013 Sitting in his modest home beneath snow-dusted hills in Afghanistan&#8217;s Bamiyan province, Nimatullah Rahesh expressed relief to have found somewhere to &#8220;live peacefully&#8221; after months of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahesh is one of millions of Afghans pushed out of Iran and Pakistan, but despite being given a brand new home in his native country, he and many of his recently returned compatriots are lacking even basic services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We no longer have the end-of-month stress about the rent,&#8221; he told AFP after getting his house, which was financed by the UN refugee agency on land provided by the Taliban authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Iranians forced us to leave&#8221; in 2024 by &#8220;refusing to admit our son to school and asking us to pay an impossible sum to extend our documents,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMIYAN \u2013 Sitting in his modest home beneath snow-dusted hills in Afghanistan&#8217;s Bamiyan province, Nimatullah Rahesh expressed relief to have found somewhere to &#8220;live peacefully&#8221; after months of uncertainty. Rahesh is one of millions of Afghans pushed out of Iran and Pakistan, but despite being given a brand new home in his native country, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}