According to Wikipedia, Yalda Hakim’s parents belong to the Afghani ethnicity. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.
But, when she was six months old, her family fled the country during the Soviet-Afghan War Luckily, with the aid of people smugglers, the family rode overland to Pakistan on horseback.
And when she was three years old, the family moved to Australia as migrants after spending two years in Pakistan.
