Benazir Raufi stands alone in her restaurant, her staff and customers too afraid to visit after Pakistan's government announced it was cancelling the residence permits of hundreds of thousands of Afghans. "If I'm deported, it will destroy me," says Raufi, 45, who is now one of many refugees fearing being forced back to Afghanistan.
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00:00And again, you're bringing the pins together, and then it's...
00:19Perfect.
00:31I remember when I was young.
00:33Now that I'm at this age,
00:36if I'm working, and the staff is working with me,
00:41I look at their faces, and I'm happy.
00:45The sadness of the family is fading away.
00:51Pakistan has given us a smile,
00:55and that smile has taken our faces from China.
00:59I don't want to go to Peshawar because of this.
01:13If I have to go back,
01:15I'll probably kill myself.
01:19Because I don't have a family in Afghanistan.
01:22Who will I go to?
01:29We had tea, and then we had breakfast.
01:33We're free here, we go to the park,
01:36we do our education,
01:38and the kids go to school.
01:42So the situation is not good here.
01:59I can't go back because I was born here.
02:05I've never seen Afghanistan.
02:08If I go back, I'll be called a Pakistani,
02:11not an Afghan.
02:13There's a big difference between my language and my culture.
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