ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the reasons for the movement of Afghan refugees to Pakistan between December of 1977 and December of 1984. One of the main shortcomings of their discussion of Afghan refugees in Pakistan is an overestimation of the number of refugees actually involved in resistance party activities. In general, all the Afghan refugees regard communism as inherently incompatable with Islam. The strength of the following is illustrated by some aspects of the settlement pattern of Afghan refugees living in Peshawar. The increase in the number of refugees to Peshawar between October of 1980 and April of 1981 is attributed less easily to specific events. Bombing/fighting was a major stimulus for flight as it was for all the refugees in the Peshawar sample. The Peshawar sample is somewhat more ethnically diverse--ten groups are represented, including Pushtun, Tajik, Hazara, Aimaq, Uzbek, Turkman, Gujar, Sadat, and Baluch.
