Witness

Pakistan's Displaced Poet (2016x36)

Date de diffusion: Oct 06, 2016

An elderly poet can't accept life at a Pakistani refugee camp, and faces the agonising decision about whether to return home. Baba, a poet and former teacher, lives with his family in one of many tarpaulin-covered tents at the Jalozai camp, southeast of Peshawar, in Pakistan, which was originally set up to house refugees fleeing the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Jalozai has welcomed thousands of internally displaced people in recent years, including Baba and his family, who were forced off their land by fighting between the Pakistan Army and insurgents. Baba's son scrapes together a living by selling balloons and carting around a film projector.