A sign board in the Women's Prison Karachi that's updated every day. The foreigner and under trial prisoner (UTP) children numbers denote Afghans.
Sheeba Shah has been the lead officer in charge of the Women's Prison Karachi for 4 years and has been working in prison departments in Pakistan for over 20 years.
The medical ward in the Women Prison Karachi upped its medicines and doctors to facilitate the Afghan women and children.
The women's prison and juvenile prison take great steps to make the insides of their facility not look like a prison, but the edges of their compound have bars and barbed wire on the roof.
The women's prison and juvenile facility in Karachi have computer literacy, sewing, salon, and carpentry classes to give inmates a skill so they can earn once they leave, but the precarious nature of the Afghan inmates detention means they couldn't sign up for certificates and courses.
The Women Prison Karachi also has a small gym with weights, yoga mats and balls, a treadmill and exercise bike. But the Afghan women don't have access to all their facilities.
Since so many of the Afghan families were coming in with chronic diarrhoea, prison authorities, upon recommendations from doctors, devised a safer food plan. Their meals are now sourced from the same place as prison staff.
On January 31, the Embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad tweeted this picture with the caption, "As a result of the efforts of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad and the Consulate General of Afghanistan in Karachi, 120 Afghans were released from the prisons of Sindh state. Also, 130 others will be released and sent to the country in the next few days." Photo credit: @AfghanembassyI1 on Twitter.
The barracks where the Afghan women are kept in the Women's Prison Karachi have an open airy corridor with plants.
The bride-to-be Palwasha is engaged to a registered Afghan who lives in Pakistan. She came to Pakistan to get married with a bag full of sparkling bridal clothes but was arrested before her wedding day.