Soldiers rotated out of the valley from other bases in the Pech for a weekend of relief from the fighting before being sent back. |
We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor. |
Such is the view from the Pech Valley in Kunar, a frontline that appears to be holding against substantial odds. |
The landlady rushed out when she heard our horse hoofs, for she was expecting her husband, who had also gone to pech. |
Pakistan is less than ten miles to our right, the pech Valley immediately to our left. |
Give my duty to the Rana of pech, for his line were my father's overlords from the first. |