By CharlotteMcDonal-Gibson

Taqi Naqi township emerges bleak and barren from the dust of western Afghanistan, an apparent ghost town of derelict mud houses melding into a dun landscape.

The government built it for homeless refugees returning to Herat province from Iran after US-led troops ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001, but no one wants to live here, away from arable farmland and big cities.

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