This was Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion !

[garibnawaz]

and so you tell us there was o damage in soviet war??

There was a damage, but soviets didn't do it. It was the rebels or anti-soviet/Anti Government fractions. It was a result of war.

Do you think Soviets would just ruin the country where they were trying to portay themselves as friends?

GB

 

[justanobserver]

So was Pakistan under Gen. Ayub.

Afghanistan too was on the similar lines.

So is that desirable? Power rests in a select few, while the rest suffer?

Pakistan still is an oligarchy

 

[xLancex]

Better than the Mujahideen or Taliban running around killing everyone in sight.

PDPA was a communist party anyway and it was in power.

Thank your government as well.

Nah we wouldn't have minded just as we don't mind the current capitalist invasion!

You know the Soviets wouldn't have stopped at Afghanistan right? They would've probably ended up in Pakistan and parts of North India

 

[garibnawaz]

parts of North India

Know your history.

India was an ally.
India-Soviet friendship treaty was in Play.
India doesnt' believe in communism.
India supported Soviet Union in Afghan War.

GB

 

[T-Faz]

Thank your government as well.

You know the Soviets wouldn't have stopped at Afghanistan right? They would've probably ended up in Pakistan and parts of North India

Most of us blame our government too and I alluded to this a few posts back.

As for the Soviets, they only came to stabilize Afghanistan, they did not intend to invade Pakistan or any other country.

Had they wanted, they would have invaded Pakistan and no one would have been able to stop them.

That 'invading Pakistan' was a propaganda created for public consumption.

 

[garibnawaz]

Had they wanted, they would have invaded Pakistan and no one would have been able to stop them.

In 1960 post the U-2 incident they (soviets) had a reason to invade and they were at the helm of their might.

China was not an ally of Pakistan then and rather they were allies of Soviet Union.

Like you said it was not their intention.

GB

 

[SR 71 Blackbird]

The World should help Afghanistan to return back to this state.

 

[Tshering22]

Too much religion ruins countries.

This is especially possible in the case of organized religions rather than philosophical ones like eastern and southern Asian ones as the former are much more close ended. Because hardliners tend to get easy support in an organized religion. And btw too much of anything is wrong.

I really feel sad for Afghans and how they have been reduced to nothing!

 

[Najam Khan]

Afghanistan 1994 vs 2010

Photographer Seamus Murphy came back to Afghanistan 16 years later. The Taliban era has ended years ago but not so much has changed since then.

1994, Kabul, a Mujahedeen looks at Jade Maiwand in the old part of Kabul.

Same Jade Maiwand in 2010.

Kabul, November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

 

[Najam Khan]

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. July 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. July 2010.

 

[Najam Khan]

Bullet hole in a school blackboard at Shafaq High School in the frontline village of Ghulam Ali, Parwan province. November 2001.

A girl does algebra at a blackboard at Shafaq High School in the village of Ghulam Ali, Parwan province.. July 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. July 2010.

Brothers Farhad, Farhuddin and Abdul Shapoor of the Ba Deli family, who live on Shor Bazar, in Kabul's Old City. 1994

Farhad and Farhuddin of the Ba Deli family, back at their original home on Shor Bazar, in Kabul's Old City. 2010

 

[Najam Khan]

Internally displaced families as a result of the fighting between Taliban and Massoud's forces, Khwaja Bahauddin, Takhar province. November 2000.

Internally displaced people as a result of the fighting in Helmand between Taliban and Coalition forces. July 2010

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

Source: magazine.viiphoto.com

 

[Najam Khan]

Everyday Life in Afghanistan

A user experience researcher who works for Frog Design, British-born Jan Chipchase has the important job of understanding the way technology influences different cultures. His work has taken him around the world and has earned him a place right next to Steve Jobs in Forbes magazine's 2010 list of The Smartest People in Tech.

Aside from Japan, one of the most interesting and eye-opening places he's been to is Afghanistan. His goal was to look at the impact of mobile money services in that country. Along the way, Chipchase has taken some truly unique photos of everyday life in Afghanistan, giving us an inside look at this country's incredible culture.

Grain Laborer Unloading a Truck

Election Posters

Arabic Signs

Popular Male Photoshopped Portraiture

Bollywood Posters on Movie Theater Walls

Market

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

why are persians in general very forward minded and progressive ? In afghanistan and same is seen in Iran as well .

do anyone think there is a future for unified Afghanistan in the long run when one particluar community is so backward , violent and tribalistic in nature and effectively fuc*ed up the whole country where as the remaining 60 % persian speaking population of the country is completely the opposite i.e progressive .

Why would these communities want to live together when nothing is common between them except for religion on whose interpretation also they can't agree ?

 

[Najam Khan]

Bank Note

Vendor of Boomboxes

Pills for Sale

Advertising Goods

Truckload of Cattle Skin

Grain Merchant