WATCH: Afghan author urges people to welcome refugees

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Tuesday 11 July 2017 at 6:31pm

Gulwali Passarlay. Credit: ITV Border

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An author who fled to the UK from Afghanistan when he was just 12, has urged people in Cumbria and the south of Scotland to welcome and support other refugees.

Gulwali Passarlay, who is now 22, was visiting Carlisle Library to speak about his book The Lightless Sky.