The Finest Hotel in Kabul: a ‘haunting’ history of modern Afghanistan

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The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul has “been witness to many events of moment” in Afghanistan’s recent history, said Bijan Omrani in Literary Review.
In the 1970s, it was a “cosmopolitan watering hole” where “princes, diplomats, spies and journalists” mingled. After the Soviet invasion…

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