Abstract
The study explores how socio-economic factors affect the dropout of the Afghan refugee girls’ students from schools. This study uses exploratory approach. While data for the paper has been collected through self-made questionnaire and has been analysed through descriptive statistical analysis. The target population consists of Afghan parents, teachers, administrators and dropped out girl children in selected districts of Pakistan. The sample size for the study is 377 and simple random sampling technique has been used to choose the respondents. This study found that socio-economic factors such as the need of girls to work at home or elsewhere, the importance given to brother’s schooling forces parents to pull out girls from school as an alternate, the financial burden on parents, the parent’s low social status, the joblessness of father, and the need to have more than one bread earner in the families results in the dropout of Afghan refugee girls’ students from school. The study concludes that, socio-economic factors resulted in the dropout of the Afghan refugee girls’ students from schools. This study recommends extensive education campaign to educate parents and the public on substitute methods of reducing school dropout, and provision of livelihood opportunities to the parents.