PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan – At first glance, it seems as though life has resumed in the once idyllic hamlet of Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley: dusty white flags flutter atop mountains in the distance – representations of the dead – women stop by sleepy markets to fill woven baskets with bread, children play by the gushing emerald streams, and young boys and men in traditional pakol hats twist in and out of web mud-walled houses rising from the earth.