Profile: Balkh, Afghanistan, after 23 years of war

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Profile: Balkh, Afghanistan, after 23 years of war

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

During the more than two decades of warfare and chaos in Afghanistan, nearly every imaginable part of the country's infrastructure collapsed. NPR's Lawrence Sheets visited the ancient Afghan town of Balkh, where even the mail stopped arriving a decade ago.

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LAWRENCE SHEETS reporting:

Balkh oozes with ancient history. In the 6th century BC, Zoroaster, the prophet of the Zoroastrian religion, was born here. ...

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