Many of the 10,000 Afghan refugees live in the country on long-term visas, as India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees nor does it have its own specific refugee law
In 2018, then 17-year-old Nargis left war-torn Afghanistan and came to India with hope that things would improve and she would soon return to her homeland. For the last three years that moment never arrived; and on Sunday as the Taliban entered Kabul, whatever hopes she had left were shattered.
"Those people who have been in any capacity associated with the government are trying to flee and come to safer countries like India. Also, those who oppose Taliban ideologically have no hope of survival in Afghanistan," Nargis told TRT World.On Sunday evening, an Air India flight carrying 129 passengers from Afghanistan arrived in India, which included more potential refugees, including parliamentarians.
Afghan nationals first migrated to India during the Soviet war in late 1970s and early 1980s, and many more escaped the Taliban regime in the mid-1990s. "So there is no question of anyone obtaining Indian citizenship," Dr Mohammad Reyaz, Head of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Aliah University in India, told TRT World.
However, many Afghan refugees like Nargis feel they have little means and contacts to move beyond India.
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