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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.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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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

Simon Norfolk
2011
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The future home of the Afghan Cash and Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul airport.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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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

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque is known as the Mosque of the King with Two Swords. It was built in the 1920s on the order of King Amanullah’s mother on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques named in honour of an early Muslim king who died fighting Hindu inva

Simon Norfolk
2011
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‘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
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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
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The old terminal for Jalalabad-Kabul buses

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

Unreparable Military Equipment at Qual-Y-Shanan

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

King Amanullah’s Victory Arch built to celebrate the 1919 Independence from the British, Paghman, Kabul Province

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

The swimming pool of the destroyed Presidential palace at Darulaman

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

Bullet-scarred outdoor cinema at the Palace of Culture in the Karte Char district of Kabul

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

Bullet-scarred apartment building and shops in the Karte Char district of Kabul. This area saw fighting between Hikmetyar and Rabbani and then between Rabbani and the Hazaras

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

A government building close to the former Presidential palace at Darulaman, destroyed in fighting between Rabbani and the Hazaras in the early 1990s

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

Controlled destruction by the Halo Trust of US cluster bombs dropped in error on the civilian village and orchards of Aqa Ali-Khuja, Shomali Plain north of Kabul

Simon Norfolk
2001–2

The remains of the trolleybus terminus at Gulf Bagrami

Simon Norfolk
2001–2
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