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After the attacks on US in Sep 2001, the US began bombing Afghanistan and hunted for Osama-Bin-Laden. Taliban are religious extremists who had grabbed power in Afghanistan with military support from Pakistan. Pakistani soldiers were also in Afghanistan fighting alongside the Taliban. But after 9/11 Pakistan deserted the Taliban, and the Mujahideen took over Kabul.Once the Mujahideen took over, the country opened up to foreign journalists. Thousands of journalists came to capture this time in the life of Afghan people.

Suhel Khan (John Abraham) and Jai Kapoor (Arshad Warsi) are Indian journalists working for Star News who are sent into Afghanistan to create a report on what life is like in the country following the US-led invasion of the country in September 2001.After landing in a helicopter near the mountains, they are taken to Kabul in a tank.The two are shocked at the state of the country and the ruins that remain due to years of rule by the Taliban Regime. They take a tour of the country in a taxi, starting in Kabul. Their driver is a man named Khyber. Suhel and Jai tell Khyber that they want to meet the Taliban, for which Khyber demands $200. The Mujahideen agree to take journalist to a Taliban hideout. On the way the Mujahideen are engaged by the Taliban forces and they all scatter. The trio (Jai, Suhel and Khyber) come across an escaping Taliban named Imran.The trio are later dropped back to Kabul without an interview.

On the way, they stop in the village of Ishtar along with the taxi driver Khyber (Hanif Humghum), who has watched his country fall apart over the decades. The women are not allowed to work by Taliban and more than half of them are widows. They cannot even leave their home without a male escort. Pakistan created the Taliban and are now working with the US to destroy the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistani soldiers embedded in the Taliban have been abandoned by their own Government and left to fend for themselves. At any cost Pakistan wants to prevent being associated to Taliban.

They stop in a small cafe selling kebabs where they meet American journalist Jessica Beckham (Linda Arsenio) who is working for Reuters in reporting on the US side of the Afghan war. Suhel and Jai then invite Jessica to join them on their tour of the country, which she does.However, shortly after leaving Ishtar, they are caught by Taliban official Imran Khan (Salman Shahid) who has hitched a ride at the back of their taxi in disguise as an Afghan woman. Imran demands they listen to him and travel straight to the Afghan border with Pakistan or he promises they will be killed. Imran is attempting to cross the border, get past Pakistani troops and negotiate with his Taliban handlers in Pakistan for his life.Jessica observes the trio travelling with an Afghan woman and follows them in her own car.

Meanwhile the Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan have been ordered to seal the borders and nobody is allowed to get through. The troops know that several Pakistanis serving with the Taliban are still trying to get into Pakistan, but their officers deny any Pakistani involvement with the Taliban.

On the way they are stopped by the Hazara Bandits who are notorious for hating the Taliban. Imran got off the SUV before the Hazara check post. The Hazara bandits take Suhel and Jai into custody and take them to their commander. But Imran manages to kill the Hazara bandits and free Suhel and Jai.This is when Jessica catches up with the gang and they decide to travel forward together. Khyber grabs a gun and captures Imran. They leave Imran in the wilderness and leave without him. But then the guys realize that Imran has their passports and have to return for him. Imran captures them and again is in control of the situation.Imran wants to shoot Jessica and Khyber, but only Khyber knows the way to the border, and Jessica has a Pakistani visa, which would be a valid reason for them to be travelling there.

The four travels through various villages where they see horrific sights of poverty before reaching the southern city of Kandahar where Jessica gets the chance to interview US troops who are fighting to regain control of the city from the Taliban who occupy the area.In the meantime, Suhel and Jai attempt to interview Imran, yet are unsuccessful when Imran threatens to shoot them.

Once leaving Kandahar they travel through a farm and manage to capture a bullfight on film before stopping off at a stream coming closer to the Pakistan border. While Imran and the rest are out exploring, Jessica discovers Imran's passport is a Pakistani passport. She discovers that he was not originally a Taliban, but in fact a member of the Pakistani army named Wassim Chaudrey sent to Afghanistan to support the Mujahadeen rebels in their war against USSR back in the 1980s before he settled down in the country as a member of the Taliban Regime.

When Imran discovers the break-in, he takes Suhel, Khyber and Jessica hostage and forces them to continue the journey to the Pakistan border. At one point, Imran abandons them for hours when he hears a noise. Gunshots are fired and the three travelers discover Imran to have met 10 US soldiers who attempted to kill him. With Imran distracted, Suhel grabs a gun from one of the soldiers and points it at Imran threatening to kill him if he doesn't respond in his interview. They leave Imran at the side of the road and start their journey back to Kabul.

However, they are stopped in their path when Imran manages to leap into the taxi and demands they continue their journey to the border. They soon arrive at the border where Imran bids them farewell. On the way, they stop at the village where Imran lived, and Imran meets his long-lost wife and daughter Zoya.

But before Imran can reach anywhere, he and the rest of them are attacked by the Mujahideen. Imran tells Suhel, Jessica, Khyber, and Jai to go while he uses his fighting skills to fight them off. Imran later travels on his own to the Pakistan border and tries to persuade Pakistani troops to allow him entry into the country and that he is a Pakistani. However, they do not listen, and Imran is shot on the border by the troops.