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An Afghan diplomat at the World Trade Organization (WTO) claimed that Afghanistan suffered a loss of 90 million U.S. dollars as a result of closure of border by Pakistan. [90] On 27 May 2017, Pakistan reopened the border after a request from Afghan authorities, marking the end of the border closure that lasted 22 days.
Aran knitting patterns are heavily textured knitting patterns which are named after the Aran Islands, which are located off the west coast of Ireland from County Galway and County Clare. The patterns are knitted into socks, hats, vests, scarves, mittens, afghans, pillow covers, [ 1 ] and, most commonly, sweaters.
English: Frontier Folk of the Afghan Border—and Beyond is a book of photographs, with explanatory text, of people from more than 20 tribes and ethnic groups mainly living in the Northwest Frontier region of British India (present-day Pakistan) or across the border in Afghanistan. A few of the pictures show people or scenes from Kashmir, Tibet ...
An afghan is a blanket or shawl, usually knitted or crocheted. [1] It is sometimes also called a "throw" of indeterminate size. Afghans are often used as bedspreads, or as a decoration on the back of couches or chairs.
Cable patterns tend to draw the fabric together, making it denser and less elastic; [16] Aran sweaters are a common form of knitted cabling. [17] Arbitrarily complex braid patterns can be done in cable knitting , with the proviso that the wales must move ever upwards; it is generally impossible for a wale to move up and then down the fabric.
Afghanistan, [e] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [f] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [g] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
The Afghanistan–Pakistan border barrier refers to the border barrier being built by Pakistan since March 2017 along its border with Afghanistan.The purpose of the barrier is to prevent terrorism, arms, and drug trafficking, as well as refugees, illegal immigration, smuggling and infiltration across the approximately 2,670-kilometre-long (1,660 mi) international border between Afghanistan and ...
With an influence from the local steppe climate, Torkham features a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh).The average temperature in Torkham is 20.3 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 407 mm. June is the driest month with an average rainfall of 8 mm, while the wettest month is March, with an average 82 mm of precipitation.