KABOBAYAN CAMP, Pakistan (AP) — After 40 years of wars and conflict, more than 1.5 million Afghan refugees still live in neighboring Pakistan. They feel abandoned by their own government, increasingly unwelcome in their reluctant host country and ignored by the U.N. But for the first time in years, there’s a faint hope of returning home. That’s because the United States and the Taliban have inched closer to a peace deal. Against this backdrop, Pakistan hosting a conference on Afghan refugees, attended by the U.N. secretary-general. But returning won’t be easy. The world is tired of endemic corruption in Afghanistan, which has driven poverty levels up despite billions of dollars in aid since 2001.
