A tale of Afghan woman
Jamila Iqbal. Thirty-year-old English-speaking woman with her head covered in a black hijab . Jamila, a mother of three and ten-year-old daughters and a 9-year-old son, works voluntarily and diligently in UNICEF's Emergency Education Department in Afghanistan. There is a history behind her penchant for 'children's education. This daughter of Afghan parents was not born in Afghanistan. She was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. Jamila's parents, along with their relatives, fled Kabul to Pakistan as refugees when Russia invaded Afghanistan in the 1970s. At least they knew then that hundreds of families like theirs were to leave their motherland for the next 30 years. Jamila was born, raised, and studied in Pakistan. Although these Afghan families moved from one Muslim country to another Muslim country, they remained uninvited guests in a foreign country! The Muslims of Pakistan did not consider these refugees from Afghanistan as their own. During Jamila's childhood, the s...