Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan

Описание: (24 Apr 2007)
Quetta - 17 April 2007
1. Wide pan of Pashtunabad Afghan refugee camp
2. Close-up of flag
3. Wide of camp street
4. Various of local market
FILE
Rawalpindi - 2 February 2007
5. Wide of Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf in news conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan:
"Refugee camps in Baluchistan, they are the safe havens of all Taliban activities. Now we are crying (ourselves) hoarse since years, 'Take them away! We don't want them here!' Is anyone helping us? No sir, nobody is helping us."
Quetta - 17 April 2007
7. Exterior of a photography shop in Pashtunabad
8. Close-up of a poster of Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden on display
9. Youths looking at photos on display
10. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Irfan, Refugee Camp Resident:
"I was just looking at these pictures because some of them are of old mujahideen. Some of them have been killed and some are alive and taking part in jihad so I was looking at them."
11. Various of people in photography shop
12. Various of Quetta city
13. Doctor Salay Tareen examining patient
14. Tareen examining x-ray
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Salay Tareen, Orthopaedic Surgeon:
"The doctor's duty is just to treat them, whether they are Taliban or just Afghani people, so we don't know exactly whether they are Taliban or Afghani people, they are just the patients."
16. Patients leaving clinic
17. Pashtunabad district councillor Naeem Azad entering office
18. Azad talking to people in his office
19. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Naeem Azad, Pashtunabad District Councillor:
"In my opinion it seems difficult for these people to leave this place and go back to their country. They have bought property and land here and have set up businesses, so I fear that they won't return to their country."
FILE - 2005
20. Various of Chaman border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan
STORYLINE:
Pakistani leaders will meet with their Afghan counterparts in Turkey next week to discuss the escalating row over rival claims that militants frequently cross their common border, Pakistan's President announced on Sunday.
The Pakistani and Afghan governments have each accused the other of failing to effectively curb Taliban militia attacks on US and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces in Afghanistan.
Afghan and western military officials have repeatedly said that Taliban fighters are hiding in Pakistan and staging attacks against Afghan president Hmaid Karzai's US-backed government from across the border.
The Pashtunabad refugee camp, on the edge of the city of Quetta, in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, is at the heart of this debate.
The camp started off as a safe haven for the flood of Afghan refugees who fled their country in the wake of the 1979 Soviet invasion and the years of war that followed.
Now, residents of the camp are often accused of being involved in Taliban activities.
Pakistan's government accepts that refugee camps, such as Pashtunabad are being used as a base for Taliban fighting Afghan and international troops over the border, but says there is only so much it can do about the problem.
"Refugee camps in Baluchistan, they are the safe havens of all Taliban activities. Now we are crying (ourselves) hoarse since years, 'Take them away! We don't want them here!' Is anyone helping us? No sir, nobody is helping us," Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf told a news conference in Rawalpindi in February.
Passers-by stop to look and pay their respects.

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