Images from the past : Afghanistan

[ghazi52]

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Camels are a common sight and still widely used as beasts of burden. Afghan camel drivers were vital during the exploration of outback Australia in the 19th Century, 1973.

© Ludo Kuipers / OzOutback

1974

1973

 

[ghazi52]

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Female Medical Students, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1970's (c).

1979, Kabul

 

[ghazi52]

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Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, walks with a child at his Palace in January 1972 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

 

[Super Falcon]

and look what talibans did with afghanistan today

 

[ghazi52]

1927

 

[ghazi52]

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Ladies From Afghanistan Photographed In Bannu, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1958 (c).

A Photograph of two women wearing long-sleeved embroidered dresses with wide cuffs. The skirts of the dresses are full and heavily gathered at the bodice. They have chadors over their heads. Both women are wearing heavy jewellery including nose rings, finger rings, earrings, headpieces and ornate necklaces. They are smiling towards the camera.

The photograph is held with others taken by Dr Stella Underhill when she was based at the Church Mission Society hospital at Bannu (present-day Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province).
The caption with the photograph records that the women were from the capital of Afghanistan.
The mission hospital welcomed patients and visitors who had travelled considerable distances, including men, women and children from Afghanistan.

© Cadbury Research Library

 

[SaadH]

and look what talibans did with afghanistan today

you must be joking...Taliban was already a stone age ruin by the time Taliban first took over in '94.

 

[MultaniGuy]

Now that since peace has come to Afghanistan, we have every to purchase that real estate.

 

[Super Falcon]

you must be joking...Taliban was already a stone age ruin by the time Taliban first took over in '94.

When did I say they doing good they are similar Irani far right mullah

 

[ziaulislam]

you must be joking...Taliban was already a stone age ruin by the time Taliban first took over in '94.

Oh he is talking about length of mini skirts since that the standards of development by some standards not economy or education or HDI

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not saying Taliban have done great strides in that field

 

[ghazi52]

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A Foreigner Tourist Posing For A Photograph In Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972 (c).
It is kabul,called zarnegar park,
Tha building in this picture graveyard of Amir Abdul Rahman khan.
King of Afghanistan in 1889.

 

[ghazi52]

National team 1920's..

1963

 

[ghazi52]

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1st Battalion Gurkha Officers, Kakul, 1941 (c).
6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles

The 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles was a regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army following India’s independence.

Originally raised in 1817 as part of the army of the British East India Company, the regiment has been known by a number of names throughout its history. Initially the unit did not recruit from the Gurkhas, although after being transferred to the British Indian Army following the Indian Mutiny in 1857, it became a purely Gurkha regiment, in due course with its regimental headquarters at Abbottabad in the North-West Frontier Province of British India. After 1947 the regiment was one of only four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army and this continued up until 1994, when it was amalgamated with other Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

Over the course of its 177 year history, the regiment was awarded 25 battle honours, although prior to World War One it had only been awarded one and no battle honours were awarded to it after World War Two.
© 6th Gurkha Rifles

 

[ghazi52]

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Scene Of A Cricket Match In Kabul, 1930.

For the first time in history of Afghanistan, a Minister of Sports/Athletics was appointed by king Nadir Shah owing to the growing interests of Afghans in sports.
Picture Source:- The Graphic, Nov 29, 1930.

 

[ghazi52]

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Dr.Brydon was a British doctor in the British East India Company Army during the 1st Anglo-Afghan War. He was strong man who survived the impossible journey from Kabul via Khak-e Jabar and Sarobi District to Jalalabad & finally to India in January 1842. He lost many on the way.

Jagdalek Valley, Sarobi District of Kabul where Gen. Elphinstone's Army made its last stand against Afghans in January 1842. British Army was ambushed in southeast of Kabul in Tiraki Pass in Khak e Jabar & in Sarobi District. Over 4,500 British & 12000 Indian soldiers killed.