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2 carpet sellers with the dried up Kabul River behind them. We met these guys on our first evening in Kabul as we went in search of changing money (all money in Afghanistan right now is changed on the black market). The man on the left is wearing the Chitrali "Pakol", a cap originating from Chitral in North West Pakistan and made famous through the world by the Guerrila leader Shah Massoud as the distinctive cap of the Mujahadeen fighters against the Soviet invaders. The guy on the right is wearing the more common turban which is wrapped around the Muslim skull cap. Both men are probably from the Pathan or Tajik ethnic group.
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