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“I’ve never seen so many aircraft over Afghanistan as I have in the past few weeks.” So said the airline captain I talked to yesterday. He was about to fly to India (where he landed safely earlier this morning). With so much of the skies closed to commercial aviation, a country previously regarded as an airspace pariah is now the transit nation of choice for pilots heading for south Asia.
