Sygma
01 January, 1988
Afghan women and their children await their turn at a clinic. At the refugee camp, 120,000 people wait for peace to return to their country. Although after a decade of civil war the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan brought renewed hope, the number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan continued to grow.
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