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Offending digits on car tag To passers-by in on the joke, the plate means that Ghafar, an unassuming, unemployed 28-year-old who like many Afghans has only one name, is a pimp.
A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39 Is Afghans' Loneliest Number Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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But the origins of the number don't matter much to drivers like Ghafar, who has to deal with daily ridicule that has cost him at least one friendship.
A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39 Is Afghans' Loneliest Number Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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I've asked the government to arrest these men and bring them to court, but nothing's been done,' Mr. Ghafar says.
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"A classmate of mine was always joking with me and saying I was a pimp," said Ghafar, who rebuffed repeated requests to have his photograph taken with his troublesome license pate.
A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39 Is Afghans' Loneliest Number Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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Bryan Denton for The Wall Street Journal Zaybiullah standing, 25, a Pashtun farmer, tends to his father Abdul Ghafar, 59, in a hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif.
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Mr. Ghafar, a tribal elder, says militiamen shot him and killed his other son to seize their land.
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Mr. Ghafar says he has no affiliation with the Taliban.
Ethnic Militias Fuel Tensions in Northern Afghanistan Maria Abi-Habib 2011
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From a hospital bed in Mazar-e-Sharif, 56-year-old tribal elder Abdul Ghafar spoke in hushed tones about the militiamen who shot him and killed his son to take control of their land in September.
Ethnic Militias Fuel Tensions in Northern Afghanistan Maria Abi-Habib 2011
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Mr. Ghafar, says militiamen shot him and killed his son in order to seize his land.
Ethnic Militias Fuel Tensions in Northern Afghanistan Maria Abi-Habib 2011
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"I'm the first and last owner of the car," Ghafar said forlornly one afternoon at Kabul's equivalent of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39 Is Afghans' Loneliest Number Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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