Four nights and days since the earth shook and levelled his home in eastern Afghanistan, Khan Zaman Hanafi thought he had endured the worst, until the rain came.

The 35-year-old farmer says his village has "been forgotten by the government and aid groups".

"It's raining and we're being left to live in the open," he told AFP from a cornfield where he has been sleeping with his family, away from the wreckage of their village, Shelt.

In these valleys -- once known as smuggling routes and corridors for fighters moving to and from Pakistan before the Taliban returned to power -- mud houses are built into the mountainsides, stacked one above another.

On Sunday night, when the magnitude 6.0 quake struck, the homes collapsed in a giant domino effect.

Kunar province, famous for its forests, wa

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