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World Service,3 mins

Drinking Tea in Kabul

The Fifth Floor

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There used to be a tea-house or chaikhana on every corner in Afghanistan. Today they're being displaced by coffee houses, but Auliya Atrafi of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Pashto has a soft spot for the traditional tea-house, where people chat and watch the world go by. Image: Afghan man drinking tea in a tea-house in Herat Credit: Aref Karimi/AFP/GettyImages

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