Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
Thousands of innocent people who have been forced to flee their homes as the bombing of Taliban targets intensifies against inside Afghanistan in the "war against terrorism".
Bibi is one woman who has fled to the safety of a refugee camp along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
" The bombs started falling from the sky," she recalls. "My husband ran outside to find our son and then he screamed. I ran to the door. He and my son were lying dead. The rest of us left when the fighting had stopped. We just wanted to get away from the bombs and the killing. "
Over seven million people have so far been displaced by fighting and are now searching desperately for food and shelter inside Pakistan.
Bibi and her son outside their makeshift shelter in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan/ Pakistan Border near Peshawar.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
Left: A man sits on a flour sack at a food distribution point for refugees from Afghanistan on the Pakistani border north of Peshawar.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A group of men await allocation of a tent and non food items after crossing the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A widow from Afghanistan waits for help outside a medical center in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A widow from Afghanistan holds out her identity card stating that she is a widow. This allows her to claim food and assistance in her own right from Aid agencies in the refugee camps; without such a card women are not permitted to claim aid in their own right.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A young girl in a makeshift shelter in one of the many overcrowded refugee camps along Afghanistan's border.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A food distribution point within a refugee camp on the Afghanistan border. Within six weeks after bombing began on Taliban strongholds, 7 million people came to depend on food aid.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A convoy of refugees crossing the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan, fleeing the US led bombing campaign.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
A young boy carries part of his families food ration to their home in a refugee settlement for Afghan refugees, which was first established in 1984 when people fled from Communist rule. These settlements quickly became overcrowded with the new influx of refugees following the start of a US led bombing campaign against the Taliban.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
An old woman who has fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan. She has been separated from her family - this chicken is one of her few remaining possessions.
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Afghanistan, Refugee Crisis
November 2001
An old woman who has fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan. She has been separated from her family - this chicken is one of her few remaining possessions.
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