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TORKHAM: Lugging suitcases across the border after packing up in Pakistan, Afghans are returning home with their worldly possessions, but often lack one key item to restart their lives: an identity card.
On the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, children and adults wheeled their luggage or carried belongings atop their heads, as they moved from desk to desk to log their arrival.
“I don’t know how and where to get the ID card; now I’ll go and check,” said 17-year-old Abdulrehman Sudais, standing beside a crate of chickens he had carried across the border for his mother.
The Pakistan-born teenager had been to Afghanistan just once before, but his cousin had already told him he would need ID to access work or education.
