Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two WorldsThe remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in Londons East End. In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with