From his bed in a hospital near Peshawar, Pakistan, Chulam Hussein recalled the incident that robbed him of his thumb and the first two fingers of his right hand. As thirty-one-year-old Ghulam was nearing the Afghanistan- Pakistan border with a mini-caravan consisting of his own and four other Afghan refugee families, he spotted a metallic object a few paces from the wellworn path. A closer look revealed it to be a wristwatch. Chulam remembers a blinding flash and deafening explosion. Only after regaining his sight did Chulam realize that fingers were missing from his numbed hand. He had become the latest casualty of the Soviet antipersonnel devices sown along the paths used by refugees fleeing Afghanistan for Pakistan.