No bank arrangements, no telephone links; traders don’t know each other nor the market

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“The bridge collapsed in the middle into the river. The labourers working on the bridge were washed away into the Jhelum, which had swollen because of the recent heavy snowfall and rains,” a senior police officer said.

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BOZEMAN – Walking around the remote village of Patika, in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Greg Mortenson, at well over six feet tall, was hard to miss that day in 2006. Some villagers understood he was there to build schools, but since the devastating earthquake a year before, they were used to relief workers coming and going. Mortenson’s bestselling book, “Three Cups of Tea,” had been read and …

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