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(6 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST : Sitara Market, Peshawar 1. Wide top shot of Sitara Market, famed for selling "US items" 2. Customers browsing through items at a shop 3. Mid of clothes for sale 4. Set up of Hanif Shah, a shopkeeper at Sitara Market 5. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Hanif Shah, Shopkeeper: "We sell different goods but this Sitara Market is famous especially for American goods and we do business in fine American goods and people come here just because of the American stuff, as it's of good quality and price. Therefore a lot of people come here." 6. Mid of goods on shelf in shop 7. Close of logo on a green cover reading (English) "Department of The Army. United states of America" 8. Mid of a customer loading US goods into boot of car 9. Close of oil tins in bag, with "USA" printed on the sides Ring road, Peshawar 10. Various shipping containers stacked at Peace lines terminal 11. Mid of a worker checking the freezer of a container 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anwar Saeed, General Manager, Peace lines Terminal: "Torkham is stop it is a Government decision. We have all the respect for the Government policy decisions, but at the same time, the Afghan transit trade and the local export to Afghanistan must be taken care of. And we have a very thin margin of profit in the Afghan transit trade in the local export and if the route is closed, every container staying behind, you can look at it, every container there is 25,000 (Pakistan rupees - around 300 US dollars) per day expenses on it, so, we have a very thin margin of profit and if that goes off we are going to suffer and we are going to (make a ) loss." 13. Mid of loaded containers on trucks. 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Anwar Saeed, General Manager, Peace lines Terminal: "If the cargo is not delivered at time and if it is not secured and its not timely delivered what they will do consigning Afghanistan they will find out and alternative, hence by this we will lose the market." 15. Various of workers fuelling the generator for the containers 16. Wide exterior of terminal, sign board reading (English) Peace Lines (Pvt) Ltd Terminal STORYLINE: In the town along the road to the Afghan border, you can buy US army gear, computers and manuals instructing soldiers how to avoid roadside bombs. Traders are coy about where their stock comes from, but much is stolen from trucks carrying military supplies into Afghanistan. The Sitara Market, on the outskirts of Peshawar, is some 100 yards (100 metres) from the border that separates the tribal regions of northwest Pakistan from the rest of the country. Across the frontier, there are no courts or regular police. Hashish and heroin, smuggled goods and firearms are big business, and al-Qaida and other Islamist militants have reportedly long found haven there. The market's proximity to the crossing is no coincidence. For more than 25 years, scores like it have sprung up, dealing in Western goods such as diapers, food and electronics either smuggled from, or headed into, Afghanistan. In 2002, several small shops in the two-story, rundown complex began selling looted goods from the several hundred containers that rumble across the border each day. The boots, torches, tools, medical equipment, office supplies, food and military uniforms are in demand because they are of better quality and cheaper than similar goods for sale in northwest Pakistan. "People come here just because of the American stuff, as it's of good quality and price," said shopkeeper Hanif Shah. The head of the Pakistani Taliban was filmed last year driving a US Humvee seized from one container. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...