25 мая 2016 17:14

No work, no trade on empty Silk Road in northern Afghanistan

Hairatan. Photo courtesy of fglkabul.com

Some days there is no train at all crossing the bridge to Uzbekistan, yawns a customs officer in Hairatan, formerly a teeming Silk Road border town whose decline is a barometer of economic depression in Afghanistan's north, AFP reports.

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