Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have travelled to Pakistan since Taliban takeover in 2021
PESHAWAR – In a small workshop in Peshawar, a bustling city in north-western Pakistan, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine.
Trying to create options for women to become financially independent, she opened the workshop to teach tailoring as well as digital skills and beauty treatments. Basheer quickly found hundreds of women enrolling and has a long wait list. Officials say hundreds of thousands of Afghans have travelled to Pakistan since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021. Even before then, Pakistan hosted some 1.5 million registered refugees, one of the largest such populations in the world, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
Basheer said that her main focus was expanding operations for Afghan women and she has also included some Pakistani women in the programme to boost their opportunities in the conservative area. Once graduating from the three-month course, the women are focused on earning a modest but meaningful income, often starting their own businesses.
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