Afghanistan, July 1969 – Page 16

He took us in his jeep to the nomads, they were Pathans [Pakhtuns]  from near Gardez  who came into Ghrat annually with cloth and belts and [illegible] trading them for sheep which they then sold in Kabul. One man with bloodshot eyes and a dense black trimmed mustache, the other cattarhal and craggy with intense blue eyes. They wandered because they have no land Not true. They would not want it if they had it they agreed. Good russulman[?] Omllah[?] with them No leader since they left the mountains. Each tent equal. Same route through Logar and Kabul. Left families in Bamiyan. Wild small of hashish in the tents. Freedom. Azad. Pakistan had done the borders. So they go and sit on the borders they said. ? They would aim to get the cloth. No payments, and they can't get them. Wild long armed boys kneading dough and wafts of hashish. Smiling at the back of the tents