Affairs
Affairs Report

Final frontier - Nizhny Pyanj

Preface

The Tajik-Afghan border is one of the most dangerous in the world because of its central role in the heroin trade and potential as a smuggling route for WMDs. Can it ever be tamed? Well, the US, Iran, the EU and China are all here busy trying to help - but why?

Credits

Photographer: Andres Gonzalez
Writer: Daria Vaisman



01 :: Teenage conscripts guarding the Tajik border. They are poorly paid but the West is providing new equipment.

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