Examining the plight of proud people of the Kirghiz, Pathan and Hazara tribes. When Granada Television visited Afghanistan to make the award-winning Disappearing World film about a tribe that lived there, the Kirghiz were a proud, independent, nomadic people who made their living by rearing herds of yaks and sheep. Five years later, when Soviet troops had moved into Afghanistan despite world-wide protest, Granada returned to investigate the plight of its people. Fleeing from the Soviet Army, a million Afghans crossed the border into neighbouring countries. Among them were the shattered remnants of the Kirghiz. Combining the unique anthropological film-making techniques of Disappearing World with the investigative reporting of world in Action, the Granada team sought out the surviving tribesmen in their sad new homes and learned first-hand of the trials they had undergone. The Kirghiz are not the only tribe to be uprooted. Fleeing too are the Pathans, the redoubtable men of India's North West Frontier who were once the scourge of Queen Victoria's redcoats. But the Pathan, with his fierce pride, is not one to take aggression meekly. Where once he fought the soldiers of Britain's Queen, now he is prepared to take on the might of Moscow's jets and tanks. 'We will not stop our holy war until we have killed all the Russians,' is his promise.