Inside tribal the areas
May 23, 2011 in Local Music by stagemaster
In these excerpts from Khan’s tribal area footage, he documents a traditional Pashtun meeting of elders, known as a loya jirga. He visits abandoned refugee camps, which until recently, had been teeming with some of the tens of thousands of Afghans displaced by decades of war. And he has a close call — driving over a mountain pass, Khan witnesses a family dispute being settled the traditional, tribal way — with guns. He also finds evidence of Western influence in the region: a cricket match played by Pashtun tribesmen, and a local music store selling CDs from American artists. (9:30) For more visit www.pbs.org


