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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
Kandahar — The City Of Motorcycles
Worth-reading piece on why you literally cannot live in Kandahar, one of the biggest cities in Afghanistan's south, without a motorcycle.
Inside the city, you can find about 130,000 motorcycles — more than twice than the number of cars.
It seems that Yamaha and Honda are nearly everywhere.
However, since the Taliban, other militant groups and criminals also prefer to drive around by motorcycles, it has become difficult to take a second male person. Bans and police controls have become harsh.
But women and children are still no problem. Whole families are regularly seen on motorcycles, not just in Kandahar but everywhere in Afghanistan.
"It has become part of life here. Without a motorcycle, you are like a prisoner," one citizen of Kandahar says.
