Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayan district of Kabul.

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The future home of the Afghan Cash and Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul airport.

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The former home of Jangalak Industries, a metalworking factory that once had a workforce of 1,800 but was wrecked during the civil war in the 1990s. It is now used as a massive storage yard for scrap metal. This area is all discarded hospital beds and sch

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Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras.

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Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport.

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Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ restaurant behind the Kabul municipal bus depot.

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A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj.

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A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them.

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At a music school on Kabul, boys are taught the traditional Afghan instrument the rubab. Difficult to play, it is a skill which nearly became extinct due to the Taliban prohibition on secular music.

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The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad.

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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

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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

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