Finalllyyy…

German minister threatens to skip London Afghanistan conference   Monsters and Critics.com Dec 28, 2009 Berlin – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will refuse to attend next month’s conference on Afghanistan if its agenda is limited to discussing a troop surge, he said in an interview published Monday. His remarks came only a day after [...]

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3.02pm. Listening to 92.9fm (Australian radio station). The song ‘according to you’ just blasted on. I’m alone in the office, weather outside is cloudy and grim. 2days ago my sister, bro in law and a colleague along with the driver and bodyguard hit the roads to discover Kabul. We went to Darulaman Palace, Karteh 4 [...]

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Afghanistan in pictures

  I love these. Panjsher had similar one, except you have to hold the cable and walk over it with no straps attached. You and the cable, and the fast running water beneath you. so much fun but scary at the same time. Taxi ‘saracha’.  

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Contemporary Afg: Bitter reality.

A  man in his thirties suddenly threw himself on a busy road in Kabul and yelled, “kill me and drive over me.” “They can’t feed us; the easier way is to kill me and my children. Oh people, for God’s sake, come and kill us,” shouted the apparently exhausted man lamenting the government’s failure to [...]

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