Kabul’s frustrated expats run the streets
KABUL — The group of foreigners jogging past mounds of fetid trash on the streets of Kabul attract bemused stares from locals, but the brief escape from bulletproof cars is a welcome break for ex-pats living in war-torn Afghanistan. For the small crowd of intrepid foreigners whose lives are confined to heavily-secured pockets of the Afghan capital, the weekly “Hash” is a chance to do something normal in an environment that is anything but. On a run earlier this month bodyguards and armored cars securing the route tried to be low-key, but the surreal scene of Westerners running was hardly inconspicuous. “Car at the rear, goats in the front,” bellowed the leader of the 12 runners, dodging a farmer’s herd to reach an old military fort at the top of Kolola-Poshta hill in a residential district of the dusty, fortified city. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100817com3.html |
|
0 comments
Post a Comment