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Afghanistan: Opium

When we marched from Kandahar to Kelat, there were no supplies at all of opium. Col. W.W. Biscoe, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Opium (1894) It is in the western and eastern parts of this mountainous band on either side of India that are to be found the world’s two most […]

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Afghanistan: Architecture

Koh Daman is a favourite country residence of the wealthy inhabitants of Kabul, and is almost as thickly studded with castles as with gardens. They are strongly built, and are, in fact, mimic representations of the old baronial residences in our own land. John Wood, A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of […]

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