Wealth amid war: A view of the kitschy opulent mansions in the Sherpur neighbourhood of Kabul.
KABUL: The houses are painted in gaudy carnival colours, with multi-tier chandeliers, ornately gilded porticos and giant eagle rooftop sculptures, in a neighbourhood touted as the Beverly Hills of Kabul.
These multi-million-dollar dwellings, derided as “poppy palaces” over suspicions they were built on illicit cash from Afghanistan’s opium boom, appear garishly out of place in a city scarred by decades of war.
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