Monday, January 18, 2016

In Picture: Life In Afghanistan Before The Taliban

 Friends: Pictured are Afghan girls coming home from school. The girls, as well as boys, were educated up to the high-school level, and although both sexes wore uniforms, the girls were not allowed to wear a chadri on their way to secondary school. Able young women attended college, as did the men
Westernized and peaceful life style once existed in Afghanistan before the Taliban plunged the country into hell

  Fun in the sun: Jan (left) and Peg (right) Podlich at Paghman Gardens, which was destroyed during the years of war before the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
  Hanging out: Hoards of happy citizens gather on large trucks, which served as portable grandstands

 Shopping trip: One of Dr Podlich's daughters, Jan, smiles during a trip to Istalif, a village 18 miles northwest of Kabul
 Picnic In Afghanistan shows a group of young Afghans sharing tea and music in their free-time
 Topping up: Men stand next to their parked vehicles in a petrol station, with the rolling landscape visible behind them in the distance
 Splashing around: Men and boys playing, washing and swimming in the waters of the Kabul river
 Play time: Young students in blue uniforms can be seen dancing to music in a school playground
 Pictured is an Afghan teacher. The Higher Teachers’ College was a two-year institution for training college-level teachers
 Hard at work: Students at the Higher Teachers College of Kabul where Dr. Podlich, the photographer, worked and taught for two years with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
 Picturesque: Pictured is Masjid Shah-e-do Shamsheera in Kabul, which is a yellow two-story mosque in the centre of the city
 Cooking: A smiling man is pictured frying Jilabee, a sweet dessert, on an outdoor fire, with children gathered around
 Time to study: A chemistry lesson in full flow in a mud-walled classroom, with a small board covered in equations
 Journeying: Peg Podlich, in the sunglasses, taking a family trip on a bus from Kabul to Peshawar in Pakistan
 The Salang Tunnel, located in Parwan province, is a link between northern and southern Afghanistan, crossing the Hindu Kush mountain range under the difficult Salang Pass. The Soviet-built tunnel opened in 1964
  As well as building a relationship with the Afghans he encountered, the amateur photographer set out to document their way of life
 All lined up: An Afghan military band stands wearing matching brown uniforms, surrounded by coloured flags
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