Sunset in the Pakistan-Afghanistan mountain border, when night falls many refugees sneak into Pakistan and seek relatives in towns such as Quetta and Peshawar.On the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, two armed Pakistan soldiers stand guard overlooking Khandahar province. November/December 2001 ©thorvaldur	Exhausted, this young woman waits with her two children in front of the medicine tent in Mile 46-camps in South-Afhanistan. Diarrhea and eye infections are the biggest problems in these desert camps. ©thorvaldur	In a camp, located on the Afghanistan-Iran border, some refugees have there own market with all kinds of goods and food. ©thorvaldur
In Peshawar many thousands refugees live there. These communities have bakeries where children and women go to get bread for their families. ©thorvaldur	When there is war and hunger, man and beast are equal. Traveling from Khandahar to the desert camps in south Afghanistan. These refugees keep their lifestock inside the buses with them, they provide milk, wool and meat. ©thorvaldur	Old man leading the remains of his family. The tent is his home and the rest is history. This photo is taken in Border camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. ©thorvaldur
Arriving from Khandahar to one of the toughest refugees camps in the world where sandstorms and draughts are part of daily life. It is in the desert close to the Iranian border where there is no water and no shelter from the ever blowing wind. To make fire a young man walks for hours in the heat searching dried up twigs and trees. November/December 2001 ©thorvaldur	Two afghan girls in a refugees village in Quetta, Pakistan. ©thorvaldur	Base camp, Pakistan. Many refugees wait in lines to cross the border for hours and days. Armed guards keep order at the border but every refugee has to register his family in the country. ©thorvaldur
Madrassa school for fundamentalist muslims. Not only is it for boys but also for afghan refugees girls where they learn the Koran day in and day out. ©thorvaldur	Life in refugees camps is hard. The children sleep on blankets on the ground. These children make their home in refugees camps on the Pakistan-Afgan border. ©thorvaldur	A lonely child sleeps in the desert after arriving from Khandahar to one of the toughest refugees camps in the world . A place where sandstorms and draughts are part of daily life. It is the desert close to the Iranian border where there is no water and no shelter from the ever blowing wind. ©thorvaldur
Makaki camp has no shelter from the winds. Situated in the desert, a home is a tent with no roof and offers not much protection from the ever blowing sandstorms. ©thorvaldur	Arriving from Khandahar to one of the toughest refugees camps in the world where sandstorms and draughts are part of daily life. It is the desert close to the Iranian border where there is no water and no shelter from the ever blowing wind. ©thorvaldur	Base camp, Pakistan. Many refugees wait in lines to cross the border for hours to days. Armed guards keep order at the border but every refugee has to register his family in the country. November/December 2001 ©thorvaldur
Madrassa school for fundamentalist muslims. Not only is it for boys but also for afghan refugees girls where they learn the Koran day in and day out. ©thorvaldur	Base camp, Pakistan. Many refugees wait in lines to cross the border for hours to days. Armed guards keep order at the border but every refugee has to register his family in the country. ©thorvaldur	Tired and hungry when arriving in Mile 46-camps after almost two weeks of fleeing the terror of US bombing in Afghanistan. ©thorvaldur
South-Afghanistan. Former Afghan soldier enters Makaki camps with his belongings on his shoulders. Among his private things an AK-47 rifle stands out, ready to protect his family on a long journey to refugees camps. ©thorvaldur	Madrassa school for fundamentalist muslims. Afghan refugees boys learn the Koran day in and day out. This school is in Peshawar, Pakistan. ©thorvaldur	Water of life. In the refugee Base-Camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border smiling children get water for their families. In these camps the water is clean and humanitarian aid is making the families life much better. ©thorvaldur
Safe from US bombing and the Taliban terror. Family of Afghan refugees close to the Iran-Afghanistan border. Most of these families have traveled for weeks to arrive in a place where there is some food and medicine for the children. ©thorvaldur	After arriving to the desert from a bloody war in Herat province these refugees choose to go to camps in the desert rather then stay in war torn villages where there is still fighting going on. Everywhere there is sand but also peace and hope. ©thorvaldur	Turning back the clock. A remote village in the western Afghanistan desert. These villages have no running water, electricity or any medical aid. ©thorvaldur
On the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan many refugees camps have turned into small villages where houses are being built. Many thousands of refugees from Afghanistan are living in these villages in Pakistan. November/December 2001 ©thorvaldur	Afghan fighter. ©thorvaldur