Picture of the Day

[mughaljee]

People of Chitral, Pakistan and people of Nuristan, Afghanistan are like two cousins with common traditions and customs. In some areas like in Kalash, Chitral, women dance in public, choose their husbands at dance parties, run the family, give divorce to their husbands. Even a mosque mullah makes his own wine and a nine-year old child drinks wine.

 

[livingdead]

People of Chitral, Pakistan and people of Nuristan, Afghanistan are like two cousins with common traditions and customs. In some areas like in Kalash, Chitral, women dance in public, choose their husbands at dance parties, run the family, give divorce to their husbands. Even a mosque mullah makes his own wine and a nine-year old child drinks wine.

Beautiful boy.
Many tribal people have same custom in India. They dance and drink a lot of local brew.

 

[mughaljee]

Logar, Afghanistan.

 

[mughaljee]

An 1881 photo showing the ruined Old Kandahar citadel of Shah Hussain Hotaki that was destroyed by the Afsharid forces of Nader Shah in 1738. This destroyed fortress is still standing today.

British and allied forces at Kandahar after the 1880 Battle of Kandahar, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The large defensive wall around the city was finally removed in the early 1930s by the order of King Nader Khan, the father of King Zahir Shah.

City of Kandahar.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan.

 

[mughaljee]

Old picture of bagh e babur now its changed.
Bagh e Babur,Afghanistan.

 

[mughaljee]

Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan.

 

[mughaljee]

پکتیا، مسجد جامع خوست

 

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Kabul, Afghanistan, : A pottery student works at the "Turquoise Mountain" school of art, located in the old city. This organization restored some buildings of the old city and turned them into a school.

 

[mughaljee]

زه احوال خود من نيم رنك زرد /غمي بينوايان رخم كرد زرد
My own familiarity with half yellow rank chord/binoaian yellow rakm ghmi he (Pukhtoon, is this right Translation. ?)

 

[mughaljee]

Baaghe Jehan-Nemaa Samangon Northern Afghanistan.

 

[Marshmallow]

Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan.

wow Afghanistan is beautiful

 

[mughaljee]

Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Shareef, Afghanistan.

 

[mughaljee]

The Shibar Pass between Bamian and Kabul after a dusting of snow.

 

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A minaret or victory tower, probably marking the site of the Ghurid capital Firuzkuh. It stands 65 m high and has a diameter o 9 m at its base. It is made up of four tapering cylindrical shafts on an octagonal base, with a double spiral staircase inside. The outside is completely covered in decorative brickwork, except or one band of blue tile inscription near the top.
One the hill of Kushkak between Jam village and the minaret are some Hebrew inscriptions dated 1153-1203. To the south of the river are mud-brick watch-towers forming a fortification line. Another fortress with a stone reservoir lies on the north side of the river. There are several more mud remains in the immediate vicinity, including a possible bazaar and mosque, both to the east and west of the minaret.

 

[mughaljee]

Pol-e Mālān
Herāt Province, Across Hari Rūd 6 km due south of Herāt on the old road to Kandahār
Seljuk?, 11th-12th century AD.

A stone and brick bridge of 27 spans across Hari Rūd river.