![]() WAHID REHMAN: OK, your date of birth is, I know, 1 January, but which year? Wahid Rehman, an Afghan man living in Ireland, tells me that when he helped asylum-seekers, officials soon learned to ask for just the year that Afghans were born. HADID: There's no readily available data, but anecdotally, one Western visa officer tells me it was so common in applications, he initially thought there was a glitch. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Non-English language spoken). ![]() 1, 1939 for his birthday, for how old he was, everything. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: We always just went by Jan. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports.ĭIAA HADID, BYLINE: Ask in any Pakistani or Afghan town when someone's birthday is, and it's not unusual to hear January 1. Why? The answer lies in the different ways we see time. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, January 1 is a day of many, many birthdays, but they are rarely celebrated. ![]() In America and much of the West, the new year starts with a party. ![]()
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