A short trip to the North
October 20th 2006 And a short trip it was... I wanted to go up North for two weeks or so, but I stayed only for 4 days... Plans change...
Anyway, I went up to Mazar-e Sharif to look at Afghanistan’s holiest shrine, the tomb of Imam Ali, the son in law of the prophet Mohammed... It is all a bit confusing as according to most Muslims he is buried in Najaf in Iraq, which is one of the most important pilgrimage sig
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