But his life in Pakistan is also tough by earning less than 4 dollars a day in a scrap shop. His family also lives from hand to mouth, he told Xinhua, adding that one-year stay extension policy also made them anxious and insecure. Even though, situation in Afghanistan terrified the young man. "I have a one-room home here. I am alive. I am hungry but breathing."
Local analysts believe that Pakistan is trying to fulfill a global responsibility to support and protect refugees with the help of UNHCR and international donors, and more international support can bring ease to the lives of the destitute refugees.
But Pakistan is also in difficulties. Officials from the country's Ministry of States and Frontier Regions Division told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that international aid to Pakistan for refugees has greatly shrunk over the recent years due to emergence of refugee crisis in other parts of the world.
Former Pakistani envoy to Afghanistan Rustam Shah Mohmand believed that with the shrinking international support, life will keep on becoming tougher for the refugees in Pakistan.
"Pakistanis and the Afghan refugees are living together peacefully, but both sides are clear that the refugees have to repatriate someday. Millions of them have already been repatriated since the 1980s, but many of them had to return to Pakistan due to the unrest, and the American invasion in 2001 has made the condition even worse."
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