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People prayed at Kabul’s Shah-e Do Shamshira Mosque on July 28 as they celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. The place of worship, whose name translates as Mosque of the King of Two Swords, is located in the center of the Afghan capital, next to the tomb of an Arab commander who died in the 7th century when the Arabs entered Kabul. (Wali Sabawoon, See the Video>>>

If you want adventure to go with your mountain biking, then Afghanistan will definitely deliver. This website offers a short video on a a 12-day epic of the Wakhan Corridor in north-east Afghanistan. Dan and Matt come back with the low-down on everything you need to know to follow in their MTB tire tracks… should you be stupid enough to try.  See the Video>>>

See some amazing photographs of some snowboarders in the Hindu Kush Mountrains.  The first link as a few photographs, people in Afghanistan may not be able to access the second link, which has more photos (it appears to be blocked here).  See the First Link Here>>> and the Second Here>>>

After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa.  More>>>

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Afghanistan, Ireland, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will play against state and provincial sides in Australia and New Zealand, as they count down to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, which will be held between 14 February and 29 March. During the tour, they will also be able to call on a number of specialist coaches and former players from both countries, to support their training and planning sessions.More>>>

Afghanistan came made a roaring comeback in the 4-match one-day international series against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, after the hosts had taken a 2-0 lead in the series, as they beat the hosts by 100 runs in the 4th and final ODI to level the series 2-2. Afghanistan scraped through to a win by two wickets in the 3rd ODI and had to win the 4th ODI to draw the series, showing they are on equal footing with Zimbabwe, who are one of the ten ICC Full Members. The fact that they did so, with such ease, is a credit to their growing ability and determination. More>>>

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30 Photos of
1960s Afghanistan

See 30 photographs taken by Dr. Bill Podlich in the 1960’s.  They show a modernizing and peaceful Afghanistan. His daughter Peg Podlich says the photos “can encourage folks to see Afghanistan and its people as they were and could be. It is important to know that we have more in common with people in other lands than what separates us.”  See the Photos>>>

Pomegranates have always been an important crop in Afghanistan, and production has revived over the last decade. In Kandahar province, once the epicentre of Taleban power and still a trouble-spot, farmers say pomegranates offer a viable alternate to opium poppies. Provincial agriculture official Sher Mohammad told IWPR that the area covered by pomegranate orchards was on the increase, and that 300 new plantations had appeared in one district, Arghandab, alone. More>>>

MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Most of the problems facing the education sector in militancy-hit districts of central Kapisa province have been resolved for the first time during the past 12 years, teachers and students say. Mohammad Abbas, a student of seventh class, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Tagab, Alasai and Nijrab were the most insecure districts where education was in extremely poor condition. This has now changed.More>>>

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Afghanistan risks losing even the basic health gains it has made over the past decade if it becomes a “forgotten crisis” when international troops leave the country at the end of the year, Benoit De Gryse, Medecins Sans Frontieres’ chief in Afghanistan said. “A lot of improvements have been made, but they are very precarious,” De Gryse said, “I think that donors have to be aware that this is possible … The country cannot sustain itself.” More>>>

Monday was the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of fasting, and Afghanistan’s Helmand province is spared no break from the war. At the Surgical Center for Civilian War Victims in Lashkar Gah the casualties from the ongoing conflict in the country continued to stream in. Friends and relatives — who would otherwise be distributing sweets and entertaining guests to observe the holiday — came here instead to visit loved ones. More>>>