Afghanistan

highway · fort

Imagine walking an agrarian countryside and coming across an old tank in the middle of a field of beans? Or finding a sign that reads 'Beware of mines on the sides of the road'! That is the sad reality of Afghanistan and now with the Taliba…

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan with the epicentre 300 km from Kabul following which tremors were felt in northern parts of India.

hills · highway

This old footage offers a rare glimpse into Afghanistan’s past, set against a stark yet striking mountain landscape. The environment appears dry and rugged, with sparse vegetation—suggesting a cold season or high-altitude region.

In an interview with the director of Kabul Express, Kabir Khan reveals secrets in the making of the film. Interesting facts about shooting in Afghanistan. He also reveals threats to the cast and crew from the Taliban.

politics

Government Officer at Presidential Palace of Kabul in the 1990's: Bureaucracy in Afghanistan, in archival footage from the 1990's. A gunman with an automatic rifle waves out to us, while he stands on guard at a Lexus LX470 SUV.

music

Whether India influenced Afghanni music or the other way around, there are clear commonalities between the two country's musical and musical instrument traditions.

Russian Mi8 Helicopters land at an active airfield in Afganistan, during the previous Taliban rule Afghani prisoners of the Taliban, in chains, as they carry water from rivebed in Afghanistan, as indentured labourers

When Russia invaded Afghanistan, all Afghans had to go for jihad. This continued until after they left Afghanistan. If a country is invaded, the people of that country should fight, and that's called Jihad.

politics

Afghan women crowd together in their various light to dark shades of blue burkhas, overseen by armed Taliban forces. They are standing in queue awaiting wheat and atta /flour rations to take home.

Afghanistan·politics

Group of Afghani women wearing burqa get the grain after standing in a long queue .They push heavily loaded trolley of grain sacks Afghanistan is a country of approximately 23 million which, after three years of severe drought, 23 years of…

Afghanistan·bazaar

What is the future for such young Afghan boys and girls? An ambulance of International Committee of the Red Cross passes through a market street in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Afghan kids peep through a window while their mother stands outside wearing a Burqa in a house made of baked mud. Kids eat afghan bread while their mother cooks. A person at the house uses a handcart to take a sack outside.

Earlier, I was working at a theatre but after the invasion of Taliban in Afghanistan but right now I can't do anything. I went to Kashmir and stayed there for two years and after that in Iran for one year.

aerial · desert

Afghanistan and Iran mountain and desert landscape aerial views of Herat, Mashhad, north of Isfahan, Birjand, Kashmar.

Afghanistan·highway

Afghan soldiers travel in a city in Afghanistan through a Toyota car while another troop travels through a Jackal vehicle. An ISAF or International Security Assistance Force vehicle passes through the road. See Afghan taxis on the road.

Several plane wrecks around arid landscapes of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

bazaar

Burqa-clad women buy jewellery at Kabul Pushtany Gold Selling Market in Afghanistan. What a wrinkled up face full of character this man has, as seen on the streets of Kabul!

Afghanistan·music

Such an aural feeling of Indian classical music, with the tabla and a harmonium... One could just as well be anywhere in north India... Local musicians of Afghanistan sing a local song.

Afghanistan·bazaar

A Kabul dhaba wallah makes potato wedges or potato chips, while clients sit ona table to eat Afghani breads and potato chips with sauxe. Afghan women buy pulses at a local market.