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Residents of Salang district of Parwan province hunted and killed four rare mountain goats on Wednesday, local officials said on Thursday.

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): The Salang highway, connecting Kabul with northern provinces, has been closed for cargo trucks due to heavy snowfall, an official said on Sunday

In cars don't work. this is the only way to reach sakhi mohammed's home. there is no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life is like here — literally lived on the edge. even for the littlest, with little coverfrom this biting cold. a home made of mud with the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold. my kids recently got sick. some of my animals died. until now, i haven't heard people died in salang. even five—year—old jamshad helps keep them alive. they survive with a traditional stove and twigs.

0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world's second highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel. a place of legend. it's an engineering wonder, but a death trap. especially in winter, in avalanches and accidents. the only highway rescue at this spot is sakhi momhammed, selling chains for tyres, in the coldest winter in a decade. translation: it gets so cold you cannot see the road. you can't walk...

Correspondent lyse doucet has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush region to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world's second—highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel. a place of legend. it's an engineering wonder, but a death trap. especially in winter, in avalanches and accidents. the only highway rescue at this spot is sakhi mohammed, selling chains for tyres in the coldest winter in a decade. translation: it gets so cold, you cannot see the road. - you can't walk, and the heater...