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The following photos were taken from popular press in the Internet. These photos show us that a vast amount of Afghan families were displaced by the US-Taliban conflict during the October and November months of 2001.
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Left: Young Afghan refugees push an elderly woman in a wheelbarrow at the Afghan and Pakistan border outside the the Pakistani town of Chaman on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001. Refugees continued to cross from southern Afghanistan into Pakistan near Chaman as word spread among the population of the Taliban withdrawl from the north and the capital Kabul. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)Right: A boy carries firewood past a northern alliance tank, close to the front line near the town of Khanabad, northern Afghanistan, Thursday Nov. 22, 2001. Northern alliance troops have surrounded the remaining Taliban forces in Kunduz province. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
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Left: A family of Afghan refugees from Kabul who crossed illegally into Pakistan via the Khyber pass walk along the road near Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Riaz Khan)Right: A Pakistani soldier uses a stick to push back a crowd at the Pakistan border near Chaman, Pakistan Saturday Nov. 17, 2001. The Pakistanis have increased their security along the border fearing the spread of fighting to the southern part of Afghanistan increasing the influx of refugees and Taliban fighters to the border. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Left: Afghan women with children, refugees from Kunduz province, walk to the town of Taloqan, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 21 2001. In northern Afghanistan, the opposition's Gen. Mohammed Daoud said late Tuesday he was optimistic that he could finish brokering surrender of Afghan Taliban at Kunduz, perhaps within a day. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Right: Afghan widows wait for food to be distributed from the United Nations World Food Program bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. Vital food convoys from Pakistan to Afghanistan suspended last week because of security fears have restarted, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday. "After a six-day interruption the convoys are back on the road," said Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program.(AP Photo/Laura
Rauch)
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Left: Afghan widows wait for food distribution at the United Nations World Food Program bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. About 350 widows, identified as the most vulnerable group in the city, received two cans of oil and two sacks of wheat from the United States Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)Right: An Afghan widow smiles after lifting her burqa in the United Nations World Food Program bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. About 350 widows, identified as the most vulnerable group in the city, received two cans of oil and two sacks of wheat from the United States Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
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Left: A woman lifts the veil on her burqa in downtown Kabul November 14, 2001 the day after Taliban forces vacated the Afghan capital. First lady Laura Bush will deliver the weekly presidential radio address on Nov. 17, using the airwaves to launch an international campaign for women's rights in Afghanistan. (Sayed Salahuddin/Reuters)Right: An Afghan woman, behind, who is not wearing the usual full burqa, and two girls arrive at the playground of a Kabul, Afghanistan orphanage Thursday, Nov.15, 2001. The orphanage is home to about 350 males and 100 females. The Taliban's sudden departure from Kabul on Tuesday seemed to offer new hope and opportunity for repressed Afghan women. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)
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Left: An Afghan woman and her daughter, right, visit the zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001. Under the Taliban regime women were forced to keep their faces covered and were not allowed into the zoo. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)Right: Afghan teachers and social workers remove their burqas as they leave a meeting called by Ismail Khan, the liberal warlord who took over Herat after the fall of the Taliban, at the former royal palace of Zaher Shah, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001, in Herat, Afghanistan. The meeting was held to discuss education. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Left: An Afghan man waves as a woman veiled in the traditional Afghan burqa sits on the back of a horse-driven phaeton in Herat city, Afghanistan, 120 kilometers (74 miles) from the Iran-Afghanistan border, Thursday Nov. 15, 2001. Under Taliban rule, women were obligated to wear the head-to-toe garment. (AP Photo/ Hasan Sarbakhshian)Right: The United Nations has reached an agreement with Northern Alliance authorities in Afghanistan to allow its female staff to wear headscarves, not the head-to-toe burqa veils, while working, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday. In this photo an Afghan woman wearing a burqa begs for money in an eastern Kabul street November 21, 2001. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
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Left: Afghan refugee women, who fled from the Bamiyan area in Afghanistan, line up for relief goods on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)Right: Northern alliance fighters cross the Kokcha River heading to their position at the front line near the village of Quruq, northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2001. "Rebels don't fight on horseback, but the horse is vital for supplies and mobility," said David Isby, who wrote a book on weapons and strategy in the Soviet-Afghan war. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev).
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Left: Afghan women veiled by the traditional burqa admire jewelry in a bazaar in Herat city, Afghanistan, 120 kilometers (74 miles) from the Iran-Afghanistan border, Thursday Nov. 15, 2001. Under the Taliban rule, women were obligated to wear the head-to-toe garment. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)Right: An Afghan family returns home on a Northern Alliance tank across the Kukcha River in Takhar province November 14, 2001. Amid growing political confusion, Afghanistan's Northern Alliance stamped its control on Kabul on Wednesday while defecting tribal leaders and relentless U.S. air raids pushed the hardline Taliban into a shrinking corner. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov)