Women who married Afghan men stage protest in Peshawar
The women claim that their sole bread winner had been deported
November 15, 2016
PESHAWAR: Pakistani women who have married Afghan men staged a protest on Tuesday claiming that their husbands have been deported to Afghanistan.
The women said that they had been left alone to fend for their children. Some said that they were starving with their sole breadwinner deported.
The protesting women demanded that the government save their future and give Pakistani nationality to their husbands.
The Pakistan government has launched a clampdown on foreign nationals holding fake national identity cards. This month Nat-Geo famed Sharbat Gula was also deported to Afghanistan.
