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Benazir Rafi runs a restaurant in Raul Pindi
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She came to Pakistan as a 13-year-old when her family fled Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s
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Pakistan gave us our smiles, and now those smiles are being taken away
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Rafi says she has no one to return to in Afghanistan and that being deported would kill her
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If I'm deported, it will destroy me. Either my heart will stop or I'll take my own life
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She's not the only one who fears a life back under the Taliban regime
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where women are banned from studying and visiting certain public spaces. Here I have freedom. I can get an education
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I can visit the park and my daughter can go to school. Many who live in this refugee camp on the outskirts of Islamabad were born here
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or are married to Pakistanis. They, too, are facing expulsion. My wife will not be able to go with me
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My daughters are from here. It is a constant struggle. I can't get caught
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We cannot go back because we have spent our lives here. We were born here
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We have never even seen Afghanistan. If I have to go, they won't even see me as an Afghan
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They'll call me Pakistani. The government says the measure is necessary for national security
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but rights groups say it will just make the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan even worse
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These people fled to escape persecution. Forcing them back into that fire is a violation of international law
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Afghans living in Pakistan say they face constant persecution and harassment from the police
