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Afghanistan: other voices

Peter Beaumont and Antonio Olmos travelled through Afghanistan to talk to the people whose voices have largely been ignored in the war in Afghanistan - ordinary Afghanis
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    Young people in Mazar-i-Sharif, in the northern Balkh province, tell Save the Children's Stuart Bamforth how they would change their country if they were president

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    On the edge of the Shomali plain a group of brickmakers struggle to earn enough to live confronted by rising food prices and insecurity
  • Young boys play with a bicycle tire on Cannon Mountain in Kabul

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    In a stadium on the outskirts of Kabul a new generation of young Afghan women, born in the midst of the country's conflict, train and talk about their hopes and fears for their country's future
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  • Heroin Addicts

    Last exit to Kabul

  • Afghanistan's other voices: the addicts

    Afghanistan must now confront a new challenge - addicts deported from Iran and Pakistan
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