It's your country, you should not leave: Afghans trying to enter Pakistan stopped by Taliban

The new Taliban rulers insist Afghans need to stay and rebuild their conflict-ravaged country. Pakistani counterparts in Chaman are also stopping those attempting to cross.

Thousands of Afghans trying to escape the misery at home have flocked to their country's southern border with Pakistan, but their attempts to get across have been stopped by the Taliban.

Zakariullah, sitting on a dirt road in the trading town of Spin Boldak only a few hundred metres from Pakistan, says he has been turned back more than half a dozen times, sometimes violently.