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WORST CITY - Peshawar, Pakistan |
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Peshawar, Pakistan
Population:
Just over 2 million. All
charming and most on the make.
Worst Feature:
The bloated dead cow in the bazaar that was
still there two weeks later.
Best Feature:
Going with a nurse friend into a very
luxurious brothel where we gave all the girls medicals and drank lots of
giggly coffee.
Peshawar has another name that it seems almost proud of ‘the city of
thieves’. This thieving goes by certain rules. For instance books stolen
from a hotel book stall are usually returned once read – there is no market
for them elsewhere. There is a market for guns, this is still the wild west.
I never discovered it, but there is a street where, if you hand over your
gun, whatever its type, an exact replica will be available in a few hours.,
and so will lots more exactly the same.
In the bazaar lots of tins with Russian writing which we work out contain
fish or ham – captured from tanks. Men died just to fill a market stall.
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The
bizarre - Peshawar, Pakistan |
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Appetizing cow feet at
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Local man. |
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Young girls on the streets of
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