trucks crawl up the mountains carrying fruit and vegetables into pakistan and the occasional passenger too. travellers trudge along the foot path as they always have. at the head of the khyber torkham, a border crossing into afghanistan. now how abroad it is a white flag carrying the shahadah, the muslim proclamation of faith. now you will notice is a makeshift taliban flag, not you will notice the afghanistan flag even though this is the afghan border. just over their two soldiers facing off, the nearer one is pakistani, the further one is taliban with a white facemask. behind them is a growing crowd of people desperate to get into pakistan. many of them are hoping to get through on medical grounds and if they ve got the right documents the taliban and the pakistanis will let them and their