You might like Left Right Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 Jaw Aka Faisal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’. Simon Norfolk 2011 A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Political Staff of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad. Simon Norfolk 2011 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 ‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh Mazang gorge. In the first Anglo-Afghan War it was the site of a crucial skirmish and hasty retreat by badly outnumbered British cavalry Simon Norfolk 2011 Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. The district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered by Kabulis as part of the bazaar which was burned by the British in 1842 as collective punishment for the killing of the British Simon Norfolk 2011 The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with esta Simon Norfolk 2011 At Waisalabad high above West Kabul. It has taken 26 men from the Mine Detection Centre and four de-mining dogs more than three months to clear mines from an area the size of a few soccer pitches. Kabul’s rapid expansion has increased pressure for buildin Simon Norfolk 2011 One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things Simon Norfolk 2011