THE bazaar sits on a small island in the river Panj, a narrow expanse of shallow but fast-flowing water that is all that separates the Badakhshan region of Tajikistan from the Afghan province of the same name.
Island bazaar on Afghan-Tajik border is haven for drugs-to-arms trade From Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi in Badakhshan
THE bazaar sits on a small island in the river Panj, a narrow expanse of shallow but fast-flowing water that is all that separates the Badakhshan region of Tajikistan from the Afghan province of the same name.