into pakistan as refugees. we tookjust a small bundle of things. mehtabuddin escaped to, along the road he had helped to build in the 1940s. in december 1979, soviet troops entered kabul. they broke open pul—i charkhijail. dr azam escaped like us. he's fled the country and spent years abroad as a refugee. the years of war brought the dams, canals and power lines of southern afghanistan