In the freezing cold of the #Afghan winter, men scrabble through dirt, hoping to find fragments of #emeralds that they can sell for a small profit. Among them are former teachers, policemen and army officers, some of the thousands of government workers who have found themselves unemployed #Taliban returned to power. They have come to the emerald mines of Panjshir province in the hopes of scratching out a living and, in some cases, avoiding the attention of the country's new rulers.
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