ISLAMABAD: Since the late 1970s, Pakistan has hosted over three million Afghan refugees – one of the largest displaced populations in the world. But despite a difficult past, never before have these refugees – many of whom have since raised families and put down roots in Pakistan – faced the kind of discrimination and abuse at the hands of law enforcement agencies as they did in the aftermath of the attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, on December 16, 2014. Through a series of interviews with refugees who had returned to Kabul, as well as Afghans still living in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir and Punjab, a new report by international watchdog Human Rights Watch...
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