Jolie said it was very difficult for refugees to return home
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Actress and UN ambassador Angelina Jolie has appealed to the international community to aid the plight of millions of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.
The Oscar-winning star spent four days in refugee camps and said help was needed to "shoulder the burden of this part of the world".
She said war-battered Afghanistan needed more funds so refugees could return home and rebuild their lives.
Some refugees have been in Pakistan for more than 25 years.
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"I met a woman who was about to get on a truck with a small baby," she said.
"I do not know how she is going to survive, and how she will be able to make a living, to find food, to find health care. So it is very, very difficult, but many people are moving back."
An estimated 2.3m Afghans have returned to their country under a UN-supported repatriation scheme since the fall of the hardline Taleban regime in late 2001.
But more than three million more remain in camps and cities in Pakistan.
Jolie, who won a best supporting-actress Oscar for 1999's Girl, Interrupted, became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001, and has visited refugee camps throughout the world.
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