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Highway 1

Afghanistan's Highway 1 connect major cities like Kabul, Herat and Kandahar.

In Afghanistan, a 2-lane ‘highway’ tells the story of a troubled country

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In Afghanistan, it is hard to paint a picture of what decades of war and unrest have done to the country. The BBC has chosen to try, by traveling Highway 1 – the two-lane road that, in better times, would connect two-thirds of all Afghans.

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