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Where Afghan heroin is turned into Kalashnikovs

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.