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Umer Ali is a journalist based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He is the recipient of the 2016 Kurt Schork Memorial Award in the local reporter category.
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As hundreds of thousands of Afghans are coerced into returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan, journalist Umer Ali examines the online hatred that has helped poison attitudes to refugees.
In the third part of our “Return to Afghanistan” series, Umer Ali meets transgender refugees who fear that being forced to leave Pakistan amounts to a death sentence.
In the second part of our “Return to Afghanistan” series, Umer Ali speaks to Afghan refugees in Pakistan forced to return to their country because of intimidation and fear – challenging U.N. claims that cash payments are prompting them to volunteer for repatriation.
Umer Ali travels to the Pakistani border city of Peshawar for the first in our “Return to Afghanistan” series, finding that the forced return of thousands of Afghan refugees is breaking up marriages and dividing families.
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