Images from the past : Afghanistan

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The Salang Tunnel, located in Parwan province, is a link between northern and southern Afghanistan crossing the Hindu Kush mountain range under the difficult Salang Pass. The Soviet-built tunnel opened in 1964.​

 

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Habibullah Khan "Barakzai Dynasty" Amir Of Afghanistan, A Full-Dress Portrait, 1907 (c).

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The Second Anglo Afghan War, Kandahar, 1880 (c).

Drummer Roddick defending his officer during the Battle of Kandahar. After taking part in Major-General Frederick Roberts' famous march from Kabul to Kandahar in August 1880, the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent into action in order to relieve the besieged garrison. During the subsequent fight, Lieutenant Menzies, on hearing voices on the other side of a locked door, shot the lock open.

Immediately a shot came from inside the room, wounding the lieutenant. Drummer Roddick, the closest soldier to Menzies, drew his claymore and stood over the officer while a group of Afghans rushed through the door.

Roddick fought them off until a second soldier arrived, thus allowing Menzies to be carried to safety.

© National Army Museum

 

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Kabul 1970's

 

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Bustling Downtown Kabul In The Summer Of 1972.

© Kenneth Porter

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One of the many narrow alleys in the old city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, November 1973.

Most women wear the all-enveloping “chaderi” outside the house in this conservative society.

© Ludo Kuipers

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Hippies In Kabul, Afghanistan, 1971 (c).

 

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Afghan Hindus And Sikhs Sitting In A Programme Organised By The Mandir Or Temple In Kabul, Afghanistan, 1970's (c).

 

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A man selling Dumpling on a street market along Jada-e Maiwand or Jadah-i Maiwand , the main avenue of Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 1973......

.Band-i-Amir, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1976 (c).

 

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Two Ex-Kings Meet In Bombay, 1929 (c).

Sad was the parting between ex-King Amanullah Khan and his brother the ex-King Inayatullah, who reigned for only three days on the Afghan Throne, when Amanullah sailed from Bombay to make a new home in Europe..

Photo Shows: Ex-King Amanullah (right) with his brother ex-King Inayatullah on the quayside at Bombay at departure.

 

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Amir of Afghanistan and the Maharaja of Gwalior, 1907 (c).

A well toned original photograph showing the Amir of Afghanistan Habibullah Khan in an open landau, being greeted on his arrival at Gwalior station by the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, both wearing full dress military uniform.

This was taken on the occasion of the Amir’s visit to India when he attended the Agra Durbar in January 1907 held by the then Viceroy, Lord Minto and was also the guest of the Maharaja of Gwalior.

 

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Kabul Airport, Afghanistan, 1955 (c).

© Marc Riboud

 

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My chacha (uncle) told me that when they were young, they used to travel to Afghanistan to watch Indian movies.
Because at those times Pakistan had a ban on Indian movies in cinemas but Afghanistani cinemas used to play them.

If we look at Afghanis and Iranis in West. We will find that "open-ness" is more common in their communities than in south-asian ex-pats.

 

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The Last King Of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah Is Taking The Salute From Armed Forces On Independence Day Kabul, Afghanistan In 1960.

40 years being a king, but he hadn't done any substantial thing! Just wasting time and amusement.

 

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King Mohammed Zahir Shah Of Afghanistan Was Photographed In His Paris Parlor With His Dog, February 1950.

His Majesty Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan (Shown in Picture) was overthrown by his own cousin Daud Khan in July 1973. Daud Khan was Killed by a Pro-Soviet Union political party "Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan" and their leader Nur Muhammad Taraki took over the government by force in April 1978. Next year he was overthrown by Hafizullah Amin who asked Soviet union to send troops to save his government and Soviets complied. The rest is history.

 

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Panoramic view of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1890's (c).

Lillias Anna Hamilton (1858-1925) was a British pioneer female doctor and author. She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton (1822-1900) and his wife Margaret Clunes (née Innes).

After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890.

She was a court physician to Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in Afghanistan in the 1890's, and wrote a fictionalized account of her experiences in her book A Vizier's Daughter: A Tale of the Hazara War, published in 1900.

© welcomecollection / Lillias Anna Hamilton

 

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Princess Fatima, Sultana of Afghanistan and her three sons leaving the White House in Washington after being received by President Harding, July 1921.