Pakistan

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Azerbaijan

Seeking acceptance: the Pakistanis building a new life in Azerbaijan

by Bahruz Samadov

•5 min read

Having moved 2,000 kilometres to a new country, a small community of Pakistanis have built a new life for themselves in Azerbaijan. Even for those who have married locals, have Azerbaijani children, and say they are Azerbaijanis themselves, obtaining official recognition for this — citizenship — is not straightforward. Reports have emerged in recent weeks of a number of South Asian people being deported from Azerbaijan for violating immigration laws. On 1 March alone, five Indian citizen

Seyid with his daughters (Seymur Kazimov /OC Media)

Afghanistan

The Afghan veterans building a life in Azerbaijan

by Seymur Kazimov

•6 min read

A number of Afghans came to Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. Twenty-three years on, many have stayed, making a new life for themselves, in a foreign country. [Read in Azerbaijani — Azərbaycan dilində oxuyun] Fifty-one-year-old Seyid Magsud Hashimi lives in the village of Khindiristan, in Azerbaijan’s, Aghdam District, but he was born in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. He was 13 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and despite having earned good grades in middle school, he couldn’t comple