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Article: Afghan refugees in Pakistan worry about who are relatives back home.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 15, 2001
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Mahbooba Hamidi clings to faint childhood memories of Afghanistan at peace, memories long overshadowed by nearly three decades of war.
She has suffered through the summary execution of her father and brother, dragged from their home in Kabul, the Afghan capital, by CIA-supported "holy warriors" during the 1980s. She has endured the current Taliban regime's puritanical reign of terror.
Now, as American bombs and cruise missiles rain down on Afghanistan, the war-torn world that Hamidi fled four years ago has again caught up with her. She is safe here in Pakistan with most of her family, but filled with anguish as she wonders whether a ...