CIC senior fellow Rina Amiri spoke with The Independent about the difficulties that Afghan refugees are facing.
“A major challenge, she said, was to counter a simplistic perception in the west of Afghanistan being an utterly poor country. The truth, she said, is that it has a sizeable middle class, and those people fleeing with just a bag previously had ‘homes, cell phones, televisions’.”
Read the full article at The Independent here.