Ghaziabad District, Afghanistan, April 16, 2026 (AFP) - Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

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2026-04-16

In the jagged Hindu Kush in eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of men dug into the rocky bed of the Kunar River searching for a few grams of gold dust as an alternative source of income. At the foot of imposing peaks, some still covered in snow in April, they toiled near the border with Pakistan to find the valuable glinting specks in a country where wages are low. Below a village of mud-brick houses and small terraced wheat plots in Kharwalu, Kunar p......

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