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Wed 01 Jan 2010Away from the war, flowers bloom and beauty parlours thrive
KABUL LETTER:Despite the continuing conflict, lavish weddings and intense shopping experiences give life in Kabul a degree of normality, writes ORLA FAGAN
FROM THE air, Afghanistan is a vast, empty, dry, mountainous terrain, mainly treeless and grassless.
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