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This part of Afghanistan where people don’t know about Taliban

Posted February 12th, 2018 by librarian-hd
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Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan
Source: 
arynews.tv

WAKHAN CORRIDOR: “Taliban — what’s that?” asks Sultan Begium shyly from her freezing home in Afghanistan’s mountainous Wakhan Corridor, a region so remote that its residents are untouched by the decades of conflict that have devastated their country.

The frail-looking grandmother whose harsh life has etched deep lines in her face, is a woman of the Wakhi, a tribe of roughly 12,000 nomadic people who populate the area.


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