U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan urges red unique business: visit the underground market to track down U.S. military hardware
Would you like to claim a military-grade gas cover or a uniform of the US Marine Corps?
The US military has been positioned in Afghanistan for quite a long time and brought billions of dollars worth of gear and presently a lot of it appears to have fallen under the control of bootleggers.
They took the pirated products across the line to adjoining Pakistan some of which were covertly sold in little bordertowns.
In any case in Lahore a businessperson openly sold unidentified US military hardware without any attempt at being subtle and business was very prosperous.
Amusingly the proprietor asserted that everything with the United States is his human adversary; he is a lifelong fan of the Taliban.
BBC columnist Ali Kazmi went to the store face to face to see what the proprietor was selling and paid attention to him talk about his business and morals.
Coming up next is Columnist Lai Hong composed by Kazimierz for BBC Radio 4:
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There is a shop in Lahore that professes to sell carried riches of the conflict in Afghanistan things utilized by the United States and NATO powers in the 20-year fight with the Taliban like military boots caps tents PCs veils military regalia and so forth.
You may feel that such a store should be in a dim corner of the city away from the eyes of the police; or in the storm cellar you can't enter without realizing the code to thump on the entryway.
The truth of the matter is the polar opposite.
This exceptional store is just a 10-minute drive from my home. It is situated in a perfect clean green tree-concealed lavish and respectable region in Lahore; the store has radiant yellow boards with eye-getting red and dark characters; The windows on the primary floor focused with bright disco lights the entire day.
In the event that you end up halting at a bustling crossing point before the store it is difficult to miss this Khan Electronics and American Tool Center.
I should concede that when I originally found out about this spot from my dad I didn't think it was no joking matter.
My dad paid attention to his nephew who had watched a video about this store on Facebook.
One of the projects shows a man wearing a US Marine Corps uniform strolling around before the store from start to finish.
Obviously the uniform was acquired from the store.
I was astonished that such countless individuals were interested. Since the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan the illicit businesses in bordertowns for example Chaman and Peshawar have been loosely held bits of information.
As you can envision the video immediately became famous. In a little while Khan Electronics showed up on all news channels.
Illegal Businesses
These illegal businesses prospered during the U.S. attack in light of the fact that numerous things that were at last given to the U.S. military were shipped off the landlocked Afghanistan through Pakistan.
Some of them were captured and sold en route. The new improvement might be that Siegendar Khan is selling such things in Lahore.
That is certifiably not an abandoned boundary however an enormous city in the focal point of Pakistan.
After the United States pulled out its soldiers from Afghanistan this year Khan's business is blasting.
He trusts that there is no ethical issue in purchasing and selling products seized from the trespassers.
He let me know that the Americans left such a large number of things what use is it for the Taliban? He said that the Taliban would be more ready to offer this thing to him in return for cash to purchase something to eat.
Siegendel is in his 60s and is extremely pleased with the work he has done in the beyond 25 years and makes no confidential of it.
He is a Pashtun from the Swat Valley with a major facial hair growth.
As indicated by him at whatever point there is a need to renew stock simply call companions in Afghanistan and they will send things over. It's actual basic.
CCTV Cameras
Siegendel said that he doesn't sell weapons or ammo since it is more troublesome.
Nonetheless he sells carried merchandise yet in addition legitimate compressed air firearms immobilizers CCTV cameras and different self-protection and spy hardware.
The tight passage prompting the store higher up is put with flags of different items on the two sides such as entering the 007 film. In any case here the enormous miscreant is the United States.
That is on the grounds that when you go in the principal thing you will see is an American banner and an Israeli banner close to it. It is spread on the store floor and covered with thick treated glass.
This isn't straightforwardly confronting the entryway so in fact it ought to be feasible to abstain from stepping on it.
In any case assuming you need to purchase a couple of strong and tough U.S. Marine Corps boots then at that point you should go to it-actually take a look at the right size.
I invest the vast majority of my energy in the store sitting tight for clients from a similar source in Siegendel to manage.
The sound of testing immobilizers continuous dealing and incessant declarations by Siegendel in his boisterous voice were heard from the store over and over.
The shop was packed with individuals watching the energy. A large portion of them definitely need to purchase great American military gear however there are additionally a rare sorts of people who come to gather triumph keepsakes.
Siegendel's reaction was straightforward: everything is presently made in China!
In any case to guarantee everybody that he opened a store not simply to bring in cash Siegendel raised his voice and asked clients not to miss an exceptional proposition he dispatched.
In any case nearly everybody grumbled to me that the cost of the products was excessively high and another client blamed Siegendel for selling fake merchandise from China.
American Trespassers
Truth be told the banners posted wherever in the store have effectively expressed: a 10% markdown on all items to commend the incredible triumph of the Taliban in repulsing the American trespassers.
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