In this photograph taken on April 1, 2014, a motorcycle laden with Afghan and Iranian carpets transports them to the shops in the northwestern city of Herat. Carpets are Afghanistan's best-known export, woven mostly by women and children in the north of the country, a trade which once employed, directly or indirectly, six million people, or a fifth of the country's population, but that figure has dropped sharply. (Photo by Ehrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)
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