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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Afghan Rambo is the lone ranger in a town emptied by the Taleban

With only his gun and gangster films for company, a single shopkeeper sits in his stall in Tangye. The rest of the once-thriving bazaar town, the largest centre of population within the security zone cleared by British forces around the strategic Kajaki dam, fled long ago.

Man, woman and child, the entire population packed their belongings at the behest of the Taleban and decamped for villages beyond the area of British influence.

Not one has returned, and the bazaar’s 630 shops, hub of commerce to more than 200 neighbouring villages, now gaze emptily from each side of the dusty streets.


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