1.   The Afghan border area is open and wild.

2.   And the network of support that the Taliban and al-Qaida had among people on both sides of the Afghan border has not simply disappeared.

3.   A doctor who contracted the virus in Chaman on the Afghan border survived, but a colleague died.

4.   A network of mule trails connects Tora Bora and the Afghan border with Pakistan.

5.   After three days of travel and pain, they reached Al-Khidmat Hospital in this tense, refugee-packed city near the Afghan border.

6.   But the public declarations compounded an atmosphere of heavy tension already overlaid by an Iranian troop buildup along the Afghan border.

7.   But there were reports that many shops remained closed near the Afghan border after Islamic activists ordered them not to open.

8.   Convoys of Soviet-era military hardware, including surface-to-air missiles, artillery, mortars, rifles and ammunition, were trundling through the night to the Afghan border.

9.   Dupree, most recently in Peshawar, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, spent much of her life touring Afghanistan with her archeologist husband, Louis Dupree.

10.   Echoing the views of many Pakistanis, Musharaff said that most of the expected new refugees should be sheltered inside Afghan borders.