At dawn the next day, Joe Ga entered Zaranj in a truck transporting wedding supplies.
As a small city at the border between Aqionghan and Iran, the prosperity Zaranj exhibited was somewhat beyond Boss Joe's expectations.
This was a 'lawless land' in the heart of the Balochistan region, yet beneath it, an unusual prosperity was spawned by the economy.
Joe Ga sat in the van, looking at the street scenes through the mesh…
The roads in Zaranj were very worn, but some of the commercial buildings along the streets looked relatively new.
Various vendors set up stalls along the streets, with people loudly haggling back and forth. It wasn't exactly a bustling crowd, but it had a tangible sense of prosperity.
Theoretically, Zaranj belonged to Aqionghan, but at this stage, the Taliban clearly didn't have the ability to take over here, hence it became a no man's land.
And this no man's land actually developed a peculiar scene of prosperity.
