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The most Popular Afghanistan Photos

The most viewed photographs of Afghanistan, mostly in Kabul in 1967-68. Dr. Bill Podlich, photographer. Last updated: 14-Jan-04. .

Blonde & Afghans
Blonde & Afghans		 High School Girls
High School Girls		 Young Photographer at Paghman Gardens
Young Photographer at Paghman Gardens		 Swimming in the Kabul River
Swimming in the Kabul River
Kabul
Kabul		 Gas Station
Gas Station		 Close up of Buddha Statue
Close up of Buddha Statue		 Afghan Army
Afghan Army
Salang Pass Tunnel
Salang Pass Tunnel		 Hanging Out at the AISK
Hanging Out at the AISK		 Rush Hour
Rush Hour		 Fruit & Veggies
Fruit & Veggies
Afghans & Americans
Afghans & Americans		 Kabul in the Winter
Kabul in the Winter		 VIP
VIP		 Decorating Cakes
Decorating Cakes
Bamiyan Buddah Statue
Bamiyan Buddah Statue		 Hilltop View of Kabul
Hilltop View of Kabul		 Shave and a Haircut, 2 bits
Shave and a Haircut, 2 bits		 Portable Grand Stand
Portable Grand Stand

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Ahmed Tameem 22-Jun-2009 04:49

thanks alot for the such beautiful images i |Love Our Afghansitan And Please Apdate you Site day by day please Thanks 4 everything A true Afghan
Guest 17-Jun-2009 08:26
These pics are really beautiful
Lise Obi 24-May-2009 06:07
I am doing research and I am looking for pictures of Afghanistans green scenery before it disappeared by wars. Can you help?
Jerica 13-May-2009 20:44
I am doing research about Afghanistans becuase I read the book The Break Winner. The book isn't for adults (vocabulary wise), but the message is very touching. Anyway, I'd like to say I love those who are fighting for Afghan's rights right now, and also I feel for all those who suffered. I hope soon everyone in the world will have equal rights like we do in the U.S.A. Thanks for letting me share :)
Ahmed Sameer Hakimzada 20-Apr-2009 09:56
This Is the reality of afghanistan that no one can hide .that how beautifull afghanistan is but cause of fighting that effected to the afghanistan but stiil the afghan people makeing there country back and allah will help them
syed ibrahim 19-Dec-2008 21:27
sallam dostan afghan dar jai dunya hasthid sallam sad sallam khosh wa khorram bashid www.shahaghah.blogfa.com
Matiullah stanikzai 01-Nov-2008 19:11
Thanks for adding beautiful potos of afghanistan.
Guest 27-Oct-2008 22:27
hama tan dar kharej sa-at tan ter ast, az shekam charb gap mezani... az hall mardum afghanistan khabar daree ya nee? yes this all love for country is limited to a few days of guest stay in kabul when u guys visit back and expects to be treated in royal way....chekunam az kharej amadeem... machum sag shooii mekonii da ownaja wakhtee ke pursan konii manager astam !!!!
Friba 26-May-2008 21:54
These are wonderful photos. Thanks to Dr. Bill Podlich for documenting this period of Afghanistan's history which follows with decades of bloodshed, poverty, crime and horrible fighting in Afghanistan.

Please email us if you permit us to post some of these photos on our web site along with a tribute to Dr. Podlich and link back to this web site.

Thank you very much for reminding this past history of Afghanistan.
sayed yama kashifi 21-Mar-2008 02:04
My especial thanks go to those who have provided these life-giving and nice photso of my beloved country.i hope we can make this country at the top as its name is in the list of countries.
Idahoan in Afghanistan 27-Jan-2008 12:00
I am an American and just returned from Afghanistan and will be part of the reconstruction effort helping build power lines there. The opportunity is there as is the funding from many countries. What Afghanistan needs more than ever is for its educated people to return and help in the rebuilding. Contact USAID, Black and Veach, World Bank, etc. Go!
Said Mansoor Hashimi 31-Dec-2007 06:47
Dear All,

First of I'd like to thank pbase website for posting such a nice and useful PICs. Let's hope for a peacful afghanistan.

SMH
khalid sekander 27-Dec-2007 12:41
seeing these pictures makes me so homesick. afghanistan is impossibly beautiful.
mohammad ali 18-Sep-2007 12:54
mohammad ali
i want to thank the provider of these beuteful pictures of my home land. i was student of suffy islam school in kabul from 1364 to 1368 any one who know me or was student of suffy islam on that time i would love to have a contact with. my class was 5 b and our calss tuter was zeba jan. i am waiting........... espacialy for you? zaminali_laali@yahoo.co.uk
Ahmed Rashidi 05-Jun-2007 18:05
Beautiful pictures and wonderful memories…
Syed Hijratullah Sadat 01-Feb-2007 04:32
For the development of Afghanistan we need to do more effort and high educated then we will be a good afghanis for afghanistan nothing more. fareed_sadat@yahoo.com
shahin 20-Jan-2007 12:18
salam everyone.
these are great pictures.
really captures the good times.
just imagine how much construction and development would have taken place in the past 35 years if the war haden't have happened!
Younus J. Popal 16-Jan-2007 21:21
Thank you very much for posting these wonderful pictures of Afghanistan! Although I've been in the United States since I was five and have always wondered what afghanistan use to look like before all these sad wars. It makes me feel happy and proud to see that afghanistan use to be such a modern and beautiful country, but sad to see my country it in its present state. Hopefully with the help of the world and our current leaders incorruptible and honest practices, we the "cheated and deprived" generation can on day brag to our friends about how wonderful of a place it is to visit.
Niki 10-Jan-2007 03:47
Thank you! I lived there '58-'61, so the times shown here are closer to what I remember. I will always miss it, always carry it in my heart, but never return--the Afghanistan I knew doesn't exist except in photos like these and memories. Especially grateful for the one of Paghman...it looks the most like it did then, when we used to go up there and swim in the pool you see at the back. Brings many memories of my childhood--I hope all those of you who hope to return get to, and that you return to a country not as bad as I fear. For all THINKING Americans: Please accept our abject apology (I've fought and demonstrated as hard as I COULD, but to no avail--we don't belong there!!!!).
Nasir 31-Dec-2006 01:26
Nice Pictures
Mohammad 13-Dec-2006 18:47
Wonderful pictures.....i have just come back from there and i would love to see it bloom once again
Sidiqa Alimi 04-Sep-2006 03:40
I attended Malalai High School and fondly remember the good times in Afghanistan.
mohammad tariq barak 31-Aug-2006 18:20
TARIQ .i was born in afghanistan and i want to be burried in Afghanistan
at the moment i am in UK (london) and Inshallah after 4-5 months i am going to visit my country
Guest 23-May-2006 20:30
jawedan afghanistan
thanks for adding butiful afghan potos on your site wish it get safe soner
Guest 07-May-2006 18:35
Salaam to everyone,
I love Afghanistan so much!!!!! I wish, one day we could all live happily ever after in our country. I loved viewing these amazing pictures of Afghanistan, thank-you to everyone who worked hard to make this website, keep up the good work. Sahar from Canada..khoda hafiz
elian 06-May-2006 22:38
I wish to complement te author and photograper, they have done a wonderfull job. I never knew Afhganistan used to be so beautiful and I can only hope it will be again some day!!
Wajma Alimi 23-Apr-2006 10:40
This is the Afghanistan my parents describe. Beautiful pictures!
Zahid 06-Apr-2006 22:15
hi everyon, who ever made this website thanks for makin and adding these beautiful pictures of home cultures and land, i wish afgahnistan was the same as in these picturese. Hope to go and visit this beatiful afgahnsitan soon, cant wait.
dan glassman 06-Feb-2006 21:18
Hi Bill... little did I know when collecting some pics from the internet today that I'd find one of my Senior class at AISK. What was even more amazing was that I was able to name everyone in the class for my daughter who got the biggest kick out of it. Nice pics!

Dan G
Love Afghanistan 22-Oct-2005 00:54
Dr Bill Podlich you have done a great job, I never new Afghanistan was such a beautiful country once upon a time, all I remembered was war and war has toren afghans apart,
I left afghanistan in 1999 now living in london , I cant wait to go back and live in my beautiful afghanistan,

A Big and Massive thank you to Dr Bill Podlich we love you for reminding us of our home
ahmad javid khairzad 06-Sep-2005 08:59
hi everyone i love Afghanistan i hope to visit it soon.
Guest 22-Aug-2005 22:01
I Love Afghanistan Mazar-I-Sharif
zoharia 12-Aug-2005 03:41
Hello Jamal Torabi I saw your movie and I loved it,thanks for your good talent keep up your good work, I would like to see more movies of you. By the way Dr. Podlich, thank you for the oportunity you have given me to see my country again. I have live here in America since I was a baby, but one day I hope I could live in Afghanistan again. Once again thank you for these beautiful pictures. from Zoharia Khaliq, Las Vegas, Nevada, of America. Khuda Hafiz.
pashtuna 21-Jun-2005 09:21
To the guest with the comment about radical islamists ruining the country. well im sorry to say it wasn't islamists or fundamentalists who ruined our beautiful country it was that terorist county called Russia who started the war and distruction of afghanistan. oh yea i forgot the afghan communist who helped them as well. anwyays the pictures are beautiful and i wished it was still the same.
Guest 12-Jun-2005 12:02
Hi, Thanks for the great photos, you have done a great job, these photos are the proof of a dimocratic Afghanistan free of radical and mean Islamic fundamentalists, who have ruined the country, ah Gosh can't campare it to todays Afghanista. Thanks hips Great job.
Dimitri Sokolenko 25-May-2004 18:01
Those Were the Days!
rahim nas 17-Dec-2003 23:19
hi to everyone specialy to the guy who mad this lovely web..i realy liked these pictures so thanks a lot bro and dont 4get to keep it up .....
great website
jamal torabi 04-Apr-2003 12:11
i liked the pictures alot and i wonder to kinow which time were these pictures tooked
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