Textiles and staples, mostly. Cotton oil, wheat flour, bedding sets, cotton fabric, cotton fiber and raw silk went for currency; cotton yarn traded domestically.
“Trade prints; the border story does not.”
The channel is the story as much as the sum. The weekly series had gone quiet after 17 August, and no bulletin surfaced in the desk's sweeps for the two weeks in between.
Afghanistan's presence among the buyers sits next to a quiet file: the Torghundi rail crossing has now run 22 days without an official word from either side. Trade prints; the border story does not.