"The sky is too high and the ground is too hot"

When asked where they stayed and what they ate the night before Magan says, "We spent the night under a roof of a mosque called Pavaka in Peshawar - the families living around there were kind enough to provide us food to eat and water to drink."

Magan talks about herlife in Kabul before she became a refugee. "I used to work as a maid for a rich family in Kabul and washed clothes for others to earn a living. The family provided us a small room to stay in their big house. When the US-led attack started my employer decided to leave Kabul and when they left I had to vacate the house. In the mean time we were roaming around. Tension engulfed me and one day, due to high blood pressure, I fell down and injured my left leg," she recounts.

"There was no work, no food and the terrifying bombing very much scared us and we decided to leave Kabul."

She carries on, tears rolling down her face, " We took a vehicle from Kabul and travelled to Turham border and crossed over to Peshawar. I had to pay Rs 690 in total - Rs 230 for each person - for the transport. That was practically all the money I had saved from my work in Kabul. Now, I do not have any money left to pay for treatment of my the leg. I have to walk on one leg. "

Magan has joined the many others waiting in front of the UNHCR office in Peshawar to register her family and hopefully receive some help from the agency.

When asked whether she would to go back to Kabul when the war stops she says, " I have no intention to go back to Kabul. I have no property, no work and no close relatives there. I have nothing to rely on even if I go back. I want to stay in Pakistan. I will try to seek political asylum here."

Magan says, that her husband was killed by drug traffickers in Kabul five years ago. He sold vegetable.

Still crying she describes her life now, "The sky is too high and the ground is too hot to live on this earth. I am in a state of uncertainty. I have a young widow daughter and her child. We do not have any male member to assist. I cannot even beg because I do not wear the traditional veil and in Pakistan even beggers have to wear the veil."

"I am helpless and hopeless but I pray that God will help our country Afghanistan ", she says.

Like Magan and Giti and Giti's little boy, this is the story of millions of people left homeless by years of drought, civil unrest and now a fullscale war on Afghanistan.