Refugee Cities is a people’s history of Afghan displacement in Pakistan over the past 40 years. Alimia shares a new foreword to the book’s Pakistan edition with Jamhoor.

Recent deportations of Afghan refugees reveal the historical contradictions of citizenship and national identity in Pakistan.

Western tendencies to either forget Afghanistan or to lament the state of affairs is ahistorical and based on systematic colonial amnesia.

An assessment of the Taliban victory and governance in Afghanistan since the withdrawal of US troops in August 2021.

The long history of imperial intervention in Afghanistan — from the British to NATO — is responsible for the country’s suffering.

Colonial India depended on Afghan migrant labour, at the same time as it regulated and expelled them in its border-making projects.