Conflicts between Afghan-NATO troops and the Taliban have been producing a number of internally displaced people (IDP) in and around the country's capital city of Kabul.

In Bagrami district, 30-minute ride from the city center of Kabul, around 100 families from the central province of Kapisa live under shelter of an abandoned market place.

Each 15-square-meter stall accommodates a whole family, which normally has more than 10 members.

Children were trembling in the winter coldness with wood burned as the mere heating system.

There is no electricity or tap water supply at the market compound and the displaced people have to walk for 30 minutes to get clean water from a mosque.

A 53-year-old Anzor Gul said he and the other 16 family members fled the Tagab district of Kapisa province two months ago after the Taliban seized his son.

"During an engagement between the Taliban and the NATO forces, the insurgents fired a rocket right behind my house," Gul said.

When he approached Taliban's local commander to make complaints about the rocket fire, the latter seized his third son as the response.

"Your son must join the holly war against foreign invaders," the commander told Gul.

Gul has since not heard from his 22-year-old son, who left a wife and two children for Gul to take care of.

A nine-year-old Hasibullah told Xinhua reporter that he also fled the Tagab district along with parents and other six family members in the wake of a Taliban attack happened on Nov. 17, 2009 in the district.

On that day, the insurgents fired a rocket on one of Tagab's crowded bazaars, where the representatives of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) held a meeting with tribal elders.

As a result, 10 civilians were killed and 28 others injured.

"Home is no longer safe," said the young Hasibullah, "here is much better for living."

The dark side here is that Hasibullah, a third-grade student, was forced to quit school.

"I miss my school," the boy lamented.

Hasibullah is hardly the only child here who has to give up learning. Some children even share adults' burden to raise family.

"Many families are living up on the life savings which were brought here from Kapisa," said a 42-year-old Faqir Mohammad.

Some are begging for food and money from the neighborhood, said Faqir, a medical doctor having more than 20 years of practice experience.

The Red Crescent charity group has provided the displaced families with an amount of flour and cooking oil.

"The aid is little and we need more help," Faqir said.

Officials with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Bagrami district is not the only site in the capital which is accommodating displaced people from Kapisa.

The UNHCR office is in a bid to identify those refugees from poor rural migrants or the urban poor.

"We don't like to see our women and children beg for food," said Faqir, "The war forced us to be displaced."

He wishes that the peace offer made recently by Afghan President Hamid Karzai would lead to a fruitful ending for the war- torn nation.