Evening all,I was looking through a profile on Facebook today and came across an amazing photo album of pictures taken in Kabul in Afghanistan in the 50'60's and just had to share some of these shots with you.
We are so used to seeing images in the media of Kabul as a war torn region where women are hidden in a pale blue Burkas and the streets are lined not with gold but with bullets and shrapnel.
It's hard for any of us to imagine that Afghanistan was once a hub of modernity and commerce..that it's universities were full of both male and female students. Looking at these images makes me sad.....Afghanistan was once a great nation, it could still be a great nation if we left them to govern themselves. This was not a back water that needed bringing into the new millennium...Afghanistan was well on it's way until the west got their hand in during the 70's war with Russia. Since then we have seen the decline of this once wondrous country.
So don't let the media and the Government convince you that Afghanistan needs us there....from what I can see they were doing a whole lot better before we ever stuck our oar in.
So lets celebrate Afghanistan for the greatness it holds inside and will one day release again x
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| BIOLOGY CLASS KABUL UNIVERSITY |
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| LOCAL DRESS OF KHANDHAR |
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| PARENTING CLASSES |
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| WINDOW DISPLAY KABUL |
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| 60S FASHION |
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| RADIO KABUL |
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| KABUL AIRPORT |
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| AFGHANI AIR HOSTESSES |
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| KOOCHI DRESS |
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| OFF TO STUDY |
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| PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM |
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| SCHOOL GIRLS |
I salute you for this! I agree completely if only these western countries would leave Afghanistan alone, or better said, AMERICA and the UK, it would be a much better place to live in. I mean look at the president, Clearly he's being assigned by the US government and does as he is being told. if he wasn't chose and another leader was instead, you'd still think Afghanistan would be in that state? Look at the pictures in the University, Look at the way women used to dress back then. All you see now are women covered by something huge which you wouldn't even cover a broken bicycle with. they way I see it, Afghanistan will never develop and rebuild it self until they become independent of America and the UK. probaly not a chance in another 100 years. I've given up hope the day Ahmad shah Massoud died. But thank you so much for creating this piece of blog, I hope many will see this and realise what a country it used to be! God bless you.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the only pictures of my grandad; the man sitting down at Radio Kabul. He died not long after, inna lillahi wa inna ilahi raji'un. Thank you for this.
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