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Ghani, a Sufi. Balkh, Afghanistan. 12 October 2002. ..A wandering dervish who lost his entire family when a Soviet rocket destroyed his farm, sixty-four-year-old Ghani lives at the foot of the massive Timurid-era walls of Bala Hissar. He assists people who come to the shrine of a saint to pray or in search of a cure for their skin diseases. During my next visit to Balkh in 2010 I learned that Ghani had passed away... (KEYSTONE/VII Photo/Daniel Schwartz)