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4 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
Canadzan Wheat on
the Road to Kabul
a letter from Gordon Erb
R. R. 2, Zurich
Lately we have been hearing a
great deal about Afghanistan and the
withdrawal of the Russian army. The
pictures of the Salang Pass and the
country surrounding it brought back
memories to me.
There are many interesting events
that took place in that country before
and during the war that we would find
very interesting, that we as Canadians
were remotely involved in.
In 1977 my wife and I had the
privilege of visiting our daughter
Carol, who was then secretary to one
of the chief surgeons at the NOOR eye
institute in Kabul. She took us on a
trip to the province of Bamyon, which
many centuries ago had a Hindu
culture. The Afghans were trying to
develop it as a tourist attraction.
To get there we had to cross a
mountain range called The Hindu
Kush, meaning Hindu Killer because
of all the people who died crossing
that range. It is a little easier today,
but we would hardly call it tourist
traffic!
So early one morning we went
out of Kabul in a jeep toward the
Salang Pass where one begins the long
climb through a series of switch-
backs. Thousands of feet up, one gets
to a more level road. Later we came
to another mountain and passed
through a very long tunnel, and finally
to a small town where at a small coal-
fired electric generating station the
road turns to the right and to the left.
The left road goes on to the Hindu
Kush and its two killer passes, the
Hadjugat and the Shebar, the former
being, according to Moslem oral
tradition, the place where Satan struck
when the Lord cast him out of heaven.
The right tum takes one over to the
Russian border and the Indus River.
On the return from Bamyon we went
down this road toward the border.
When we got within 10 miles of the
Indus we turned back, as Carol said
the border guards tended to be trigger-
happy if unauthorized vehicles came
in sight.