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Bahram Chah
Sign in to saveBahramcha (; ) is the capital of Dishu District in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. It has an estimated population of about 19,032 people. There is an official border post near the Durand Line (Afghanistan-Pakistan border), which is one of the routes used by the Afghans in Pakistan to enter Afghanistan.
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- Locality
- بهرامچه
- Region
- هلمند ولايت
- Country
- افغانستان
- Population
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Located in
- Dishu District
- Population
- 3700
- Elevation
- 5072
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- ethnic group
- Pashtuns
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Bahramcha (; ) is the capital of Dishu District in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. It has an estimated population of about 19,032 people. There is an official border post near the Durand Line (Afghanistan-Pakistan border), which is one of the routes used by the Afghans in Pakistan to enter Afghanistan.
==Smuggling route== During the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Bahramcha was sometimes used by suspected Taliban members to export poppy to Pakistan for processing, becoming an important center of the Helmand opium trade. It is claimed that the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance killed over 100 Taliban fighters during a raid in 2011, which badly crippled that trade.
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