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Pakistan's Parsi Community Dwindles As Young Migrate

Pakistan
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In this photograph taken on February 28, 2025, Kersi Umrigar (L), a 76-year-old, embraces his granddaughter Elisha Amra at his residence in a Karachi enclave reserved for Zoroastrians AFP From a gated community for her Zoroastrian faith in Pakistan's megacity Karachi, 22-year-old Elisha Amra has waved goodbye to many friends migrating abroad as the ancient Parsi community dwindles. Soon the film student hopes to join them -- becoming one more loss to Pakistan's ageing Zoroastrian Parsi people, a community who trace their roots back to Persian refugees from today's Iran more than a millennium ago. "My plan is to go abroad," Amra said, saying she wants to study for a master's degree in a country without the restrictions of a conservative Muslim-majority society.

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