BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | In pictures: Afghan refugees' plight

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Monday, 22 October, 2001, 16:24 GMT 17:24 UK

As tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Afghanistan become stranded at the sealed Pakistani border, an urgent aid effort gets under way.

Tractorload of Afghan refugees pulls up at Pakistan's Chaman border crossing

Pakistani and Taleban border guards

Lorry carrying humanitarian relief from the United Arab Emirates

Mother with sick child begs at roadside on Pakistani side of border

Child at refugee camp outside Karachi, Pakistan

Afghan refugee makes plastic window for his tent in Iran

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