All the President's Enemies
If the US launches an attack on Afghanistan, the fighting Afghans might bury their differences and unite against a common enemy. It has happened before in the 1980s when they saw off the Soviet Union. The long-suffering Afghans may have little left to lose, as TEMPO journalist Ahmad Taufik reports from the Afghan border.
September 25, 2001
Some 15,000 Afghan refugees flooded into Pakistan last week, according to the United Nations. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Around 2 million Afghan refugees are already sheltering in Pakistan, mainly around Peshawar, some 54 kilometers from the border. In Peshawar the refugees live packed in brown mud and stone houses, makeshift slums which line the road all the way from Peshawar to the border.
It all began more than two decades
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