Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Perilous Talc Mines

Jul 6, 2018 | Asad Jabarkhail, Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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Safdigul Shirzad spends his days working in a talc mine in Markikhail village in the eastern province of Nangarhar’s Shirzad district. In return, he gets two meals and four US dollars each day. The work is hard and dangerous, but he said he had no hope that conditions at the mine were ever likely to improve.