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Smuggling of pine nuts to Pakistan continues unabated

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KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Due to lack of access to a profitable market, Afghanistan at a dirt-cheap price, traders in the southeastern province of Khost complain.

In the harvest season, hundreds of men and women work hard separating pine nuts -- just to take empty cones in wages. The cones are used as firewood in the harsh winter season.

The nuts are brought from Paktia, Khost and Paktika forests to Khost City for separation from cones. Weather conditions in the . . .

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