Born a refugee, serving refugees: meet Ezat Ullah in Pakistan
Ezat Ullah was born a refugee and raised in Pakistan, where his parents had sought refuge from Afghanistan. Since 2020, he has been supporting the refugee community as a national UN Volunteer Social Inclusion and Youth Empowerment Officer with the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Ezat Ullah’s family hails from Koz Kunar in Nangarhar Province, in the eastern part of Afghanistan. The family fled to Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in the 1980s, during the Soviet-Afghan War. His seven siblings, three sisters and four brothers, were also born and raised in Pakistan. In the refugee camp, Ezat and his siblings pursued an education and later, Ezat went on to obtain a Master’s degree in International Relations from Bahria University in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad.