New desert camp of last resort opens to Pashtun, Kuchi refugees

Saturday, August 17, 2002

ZHARE DASHT, Afghanistan -- Cloaked in billowing clouds of blinding sand, the United Nation's newest refugee camp has opened in the midst of a vast, forbidding desert.

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