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The residents of the Afghan village of Qezelabad have taken recycling to a new level. It’s a small settlement on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, and in 1979 when the Soviets invaded, they stored their ground-to-air missiles nearby. When they left 10 years later, those BM21 rockets were abandoned. So what to do with them? Shoaib Sharifi from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Pashto visited the village to find out – and the answer was alarming. Image: Poster showing various weapons and explosives in Afghanistan Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½