Lives were 'shattered' when Kabul fell into Taliban hands, and thousands remain in limbo, unable to return to Afghanistan. CTV News' Genevieve Beauchemin recalls her visit to makeshift refugee camps set up in Pakistani parks, and the stories she heard during that time.
Afghan children sleep as they sit on the ground seeking to receive asylum from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees outside the Islamabad Press Club in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 9, 2022.
"Their lives have been shattered by the fall of Kabul into Taliban hands. They cannot return to Afghanistan, cannot stay in Pakistan, and for now have nowhere else to go," Beauchemin said. One man spoke of selling everything his family had to get to Pakistan. Another woman told of the depression her five-year-old had begun to feel, saying he'd stopped eating and playing.