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JEROME DELAY/AP
Sitting and waiting ... Afghan refugees at a holding center in Quetta, Pakistan, await to be transferred by police officers to another location. International agencies are mobilising to respond to an expected humanitarian crisis if the United States goes ahead with punitive military action against Afghanistan



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