After fleeing violence in Afghanistan, carpet weaving provides refugee women with a meagre but vital lifeline in Pakistan
In this photo taken on 16 October 2020, Jumma Gul, right, holds a sickle-like tool while weaving a carpet with her sister-in-law at her home in the Khurasaan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan.
(Mahwish Qayyum)
30 June 2021
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In this photo taken on 16 October 2020, Jumma Gul, right, holds a sickle-like tool while weaving a carpet with her sister-in-law at her home in the Khurasaan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan.
(Mahwish Qayyum)
The simplicity of Jumma Gul’s surroundings belies the enormity of the journey she has taken to get to where she is today. Sitting crouched at a weaving loom in the ramshackle house made of mud bricks that she shares with her husband and six children in the Khurasan refugee camp in Peshawar, close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, she recalls her old life. “Living in Afghanistan was like living under the sword