Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even at the Khoja Bahauddin bazaar, where commerce and enterprise should reign, there is little movement. Shopkeepers lazily eye customers. There is little reason to hustle. Everyone sells the same dusty goods - banana biscuits and tomato paste from the Islamic Republic of Iran, wormy apples from neighboring Bagram province and the sole product (until last weekend) from the United States of America: Selsun Blue anti-dandruff shampoo...
...province was recently in Peshawar exploring the monetary incentives on offer for a mutiny against his Taliban ruler in Kandahar. He was approached by one of his fighters: "Is it true American soldiers wear boots that cost 5,000 rupees [about $80] each? I could sell them in the bazaar." In the same province, recounted this commander, an old Afghan invested in a donkey and a lantern so he could salvage scrap metal from downed U.S. aircraft at night. War is an age-old habit with Afghans, and they squeeze from it what benefit they...
...looking for the sole confirmed deserter on the Kabul front, and at first they were told he could not be reached because he was at the front line working the radios, calling on his former colleagues to surrender. Many hours later, he was tracked down in a bazaar. He, the commander to whom he had surrendered and a dozen or so other fighters had poured themselves into a taxi to go off and do some shopping. The deserter turned out to be a shopkeeper from northern Afghanistan named Khan Jan who had been conscripted three months earlier...
...have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate all their lives. Farras has never had any toys?at home the ruling Taliban banned even kite flying, and here in Pakistan they cannot afford such things in the bazaar...
...Back in Peshawar Still no journalists are allowed up the Khyber Pass. I stroll through the old bazaar, past the street of songbirds and goldsmiths, and end up at a mosque where I'm invited inside to talk to the Imam. He assures me that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were carried out by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. But, I protest, the hijackers were mainly Saudis. "Ah," he says triumphantly. "How can you explain that all 4,000 Israelis working at the World Trade Center that morning were mysteriously absent from work...