Security Code: Pakistan’s solution for terrorism is to expel Afghan refugees – but it’ll only get worse

The very first Afghan refugees arrived in Pakistan in 1973, mostly rich Royalists displaced by a coup against the monarchy. Ever since then, Pakistan worked through its covert services to stamp out modernising nationalism in Kabul. To do so, it had to patronise jihadists, who’ve now bloomed in Pakistan like a toxic weed,  choking the country.