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Afganistan -- Afgani harvestors dancing the Harvest Dance, brandishing long scythes called Sikals which are used to cut wheat and other crops.
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Afghanistan - Mountain Artillery Unit
Afghanistan -- Afghanistan Mountain Artillery unit with guns carried on mule back. Mules are the best means of climbing the rugged mountains and deep gorges of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan - The Dream Of An Own Land Gets Realized
The land reform is being carried through: 36 farmers received an own piece of land (photo) in the village of Nedshrab, in the north-east of the country, in June this year. The documents handed over to them say that the peasants are owners of one o...
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Afghanistan - The Main Market Street of Gazni
Afghanistan -- The main market street of the historic city Gazni, with the old fort (now an army barracks) towering over it. Gazni is about 200 kilometers southwest of Kabul and only 50 kilometers from the border of Pakistan. The city was named af...
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Afghanistan - The Old Fort in Gazni
Afghanistan -- The Old Fort in the historic city of Gazni, from which the Afghanis launched their invasion of India in the old ways.
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Afghanistan -- A camel caravan carrying raw wool comes into Gazni where the wool will be processed.
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Afghanistan -- Veil Wearing Women in Old Kabul
Afghanistan -- Women still wearing the veil shopping in Old Kabul. These women are from outlying villages and still follow ancient custom but women of Kabul, encouraged by the government, are rapidly casting away outdated customs such never show t...
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Afghanistan Elementery Education for Women
These women from Kabul's borough Kerte Memurin attend one of the capital's six schools for women in order to catch up on what had been refused them before the April Revolution in 1978. During an average four-year training, the women receive elemen...
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Afghanistan-Pushtuns who want an independent state of their own along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, come into Gazni city with their guns. These tribesmen are dead shots, even using old flint-lock rifles.
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Afghanistan Revolution Shall Be Defended
Afghan peasants experienced most how positive was the change in the country since the April Revolution of 1978. The banner during a demonstration reads: Never again a rule of big landowners! - Soon after seizing power in 1978, the new government i...
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