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Kandahar: the country’s spiritual heart and cradle of the modern Afghan state – from Ahmad Shah Durrani’s founding capital to today’s religious leadership, its in uence endures

Afghanistan’s second city, Kandahar (population c580,000) is by far the largest in the arid south. It grew up along the trade routes between Persia and India in the Arghandab Valley, where the river disappears into the sands of the Registan Desert. A...