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Afghans Flee Broken Promises
KABUL — Though they know they might get third-class treatment at their host countries, many Afghans are jumping the queue every day outside foreign embassies in Kabul with pent-up frustration at broken government promises to create job opportunities and a sense of bitterness at their dismal living conditions.
"Look at the embassies — so many people are waiting there to get a visa," government adviser and former minister Hamidullah Tarzi told Reuters on Monday, April 2.
"They know that when they go to Iran they will be given third-class treatment. They will be given nothing almost, just very, very low paid, ill-treated. But still it shows the desperation."
Despite pledges of creating new jobs, unemployment rates in Afghanistan are hitting a towering 40 per cent while many of Afghans are underemployed — working only a few hours a week or seasonally.
Struggling to feed their families, desperate day laborers gather at determined locations in the capital, hoping to be picked from the crowds for a day work.
Tarzi affirms that people could often go the entire winter without work, and when they do work, they earn around $2 a day.
"Most of these people are now people who are completely idle," he said, "There are miles and miles of nothing to do," he said.
A recent report of the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies warned that unemployment in Afghanistan could have serious repercussions.
"Many ordinary Afghans are frustrated with their economic situation," read the report titled "Breaking Point."
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"They know that when they go to Iran they will be given third-class treatment. They will be given nothing almost, just very, very low paid, ill-treated. But still it shows the desperation."
Despite pledges of creating new jobs, unemployment rates in Afghanistan are hitting a towering 40 per cent while many of Afghans are underemployed — working only a few hours a week or seasonally.
Struggling to feed their families, desperate day laborers gather at determined locations in the capital, hoping to be picked from the crowds for a day work.
Tarzi affirms that people could often go the entire winter without work, and when they do work, they earn around $2 a day.
"Most of these people are now people who are completely idle," he said, "There are miles and miles of nothing to do," he said.
A recent report of the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies warned that unemployment in Afghanistan could have serious repercussions.
"Many ordinary Afghans are frustrated with their economic situation," read the report titled "Breaking Point."
More
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1175008807019&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
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