Third Afghan War

[Hammers]

Gorgeous.

Hammers... Are you sure you don't want me to add these to your Salute shopping list? 

Hmmm...

[Ignatieff]

Well I have found Johnny Walker bottles mixed in with Japanese sake and beer bottles in Japanese interwar trash pits on the island of Saipan why not in the Hindu-Kush, beyond connoisseurship and taste that is?
LB

Johnnie Walker was 'THE' whisky in the interwar period, so I'm not surprised.(mind you, not a patch on 18year old Glenlivet, which I am sipping at the moment....)

[Hammers]

A JW bottle in the hands of a fanatic muslim?

[Wirelizard]

According to family friends who've travelled in Iran and elsewhere, a lot of nominal Muslims like a drink too, just tucked away in private...

Back on topic, those are great figures! I think my small but expanding force of Brits in tropical kit need some NWF/3rd Afghan War experience sometime fairly soon.

[Ignatieff]

A JW bottle in the hands of a fanatic muslim?

Saudi Arabia remains one of its biggest export markets (via Beirut and the Gulf States) to this day, so somebody is drinking it......

[Christian]

The separate heads are a great idea! I have been after some for my Afghan "moderns".

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

I am so glad the bottle has created so much fuss 

[Plynkes]

The breweries and distilleries built in Rawalpindi, NWF Province and Balochistan by the Brits in the 1860s to slake the thirst of the Tommies are still in operation, despite the fact that it is illegal for Muslims to purchase alcohol in Pakistan. They churn out various beers, brandies, vodkas, gins and whiskies. Until quite recently they were banned from exporting it too, so like the man said, somebody there drinks it.

My old college form tutor Mr. Qureshi, whilst projecting a muslim face to the world had something of a fondness for red wine on the QT (the decidedly Church of England R.E. master ratted him out to me). The continued prosperity of the Murree brewery in Rawalpindi would suggest this is more common than one would imagine.


Looking forward to seeing your Brits.  

[Axebreaker]

This has really got my interest! Hmmm 3rd Afghan war you say....

Christopher

[Overlord]

Saudi Arabia remains one of its biggest export markets (via Beirut and the Gulf States) to this day, so somebody is drinking it......

When I lived in the Kingdom, around 20 years ago, JW Black Label was suprisingly available.
(At least to the ex-Pat community)  

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Some more,

[carlos marighela]

Marvellous stuff! 

[traveller]

Very tempting....

Any chance of a unit deal for the Afghans like you have with the other ranges?

[Bugsda]

The cavalry are superb I'll be buying them. 

My first wife's step dad was an Egyptian Muslim and he could piss it up with the best of his Catholic paddy inlaws, especially around Christmas    He also liked a punt on the gee gees 

Life's bloody complicated when people don't stick to their stereotypes 

[Wirelizard]

Some more,

Bit of Russian surplus kit smuggled over the northern Afghan border there, it looks like?

Also, +1 for the idea of a unit deal of some sort as the range expands!