The number skyrocketed later that decade due to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan .
The first large wave of Afghan immigrants to the UK were political refugees fleeing the 1980s communist regime and numerous others came in the early 1990s escaping Mujahideen .
The number skyrocketed later that decade due to the rise of the Taliban in Afghan .
The first large wave of Afghan immigrants to the UK were political refugees fleeing the 1980s communist regime and numerous others came in the early 1990s escaping Mujahideen .