You might like Left Right Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayan district of Kabul. Simon Norfolk 2011 A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home form the Anglo- Simon Norfolk 2011 On the very northern edge of Kabul. A shipping container is re-purposed as home to men working in a yard casting concrete blast walls. Each section, when sold to foreign embassies or the military, fetches $1000 per piece. Simon Norfolk 2011 Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of the Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying the foreign military and rapidly growing embassies with everything they might need from a single cup of coffee right through Simon Norfolk 2011 Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ restaurant behind the Kabul municipal bus depot. Simon Norfolk 2011 A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj. Simon Norfolk 2011 The future leadership of the Afghan Air Force with Maj. Jason A. Church of the US Marines who is training and funding them. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Political Staff of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad. Simon Norfolk 2011 The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred. Simon Norfolk 2011 The tennis court of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011
