Quetta refugees + WFP comments + UNHCR

Описание: (5 Dec 2001)

Chaman border
1. Aid vehicles crossing Chaman border
2. Aid vehicles crossing border
3. Various of people crossing border
4. Taliban crossing border (Taliban wearing black turban)
5. Two children pointing into sky
6. Several U-S planes flying overhead
7. People crossing border
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Khalil Rhaman, Taliban refugee from Kandahar
"The situation in Kandahar is completely controlled by the Taliban fighters and the Taliban will defend Kandahar even if it costs them their lives."
9. Pakistani guards at border
10. Aid trucks en route to Chaman
11. Roghani refugee camp in Chaman
12. Tents in Roghani refugee camp
13. Various, crowd of refugees waiting for food coupons
14. Man giving out food coupons
15. Exterior, tent containing aid supplies
16. Tent interior, man carrying aid sack
17. Boxes of aid labelled USA
19. Pan, people queuing for aid
20. Man takes away a tin of aid labelled USA
21. Set up shot, Michael Huggins, spokesman United Nations World Food Programme, talking to people
22. SOUNDBITE (English), Michael Huggins, Spokesman United Nations World Food Programme, Pakistan
"We are really concerned about the ones who haven't been able to cross, who aren't intending cross. They have no food, they have very meagre supplies available to them and these are the ones that we hope to be able to get to as soon as the security conditions on the ground allow the World Food Programme back in to Kandahar."
22. Wide shot, Roghani refugee camp

Peshawar
23. Pan, U-N jeeps
24. Various of bullet holes in the jeeps
25. Various of smashed windows and bullet damage to vehicles
26. Fartash Isabelle, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (U-N-H-C-R) Field Officer
27. SOUNDBITE (English), Fartash Isabelle, U-N-H-C-R Field Officer
"And 500 metres after the checkpoint suddenly my driver braked and reversed very suddenly and we saw three men shooting at us and the car that was behind us, the U-N-H-C-R car, did not have time to brake so he bypassed us and he got all the bullets."
28. Pan, U-N staff inspecting bullets holes in the car

Islamabad
29. Wide shot, United Nations news conference
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Maki Shinohara, U-N-C-H-R spokesperson
"Soon after they came out of the agency, approaching Peshawar, three men began firing rifles at the first vehicle from the side of the road. While the first vehicle stopped and proceeded to reverse the second vehicle actually could not stop and overtook the first one and proceeded to speed past these gunmen."

Peshawar
32. Parked U-N vehicles

STORYLINE:

As fighting continues around the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, a spokesman for an international aid agency has expressed concern over the fate of Afghan refugees who are still in the vicinity of the city.

American troops have been on the ground in Afghanistan for weeks to help forces fighting the Taliban militia, giving them weapons, food and other supplies.

But aid agencies are concerned about civilians trapped by the fighting who are also in dire need of food and supplies.

Thousands of Afghan refugees have already travelled to camps on the border with Pakistan.

The Roghani camp, near Chaman, has a population of 16,000.

Hamid Karzai's recent appointment as head of a provisional government in Afghanistan will secure billions in aid for the war-ravaged country.

Meanwhile, the U-N-C-H-R suspended its activities in Pakistan's tribal areas on Tuesday, following an armed attack on two U-N vehicles in the Shabqadar area, 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Peshawar.



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