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31 Aug, 19 tweets, 7 min read
#AFG Shamali flower sellers many years ago on my way to a picnic in the Salang river valley.
Kuchis during their seasonal migration - southeastern Afghanistan 2003/4 on my way to Khost.
Salang during an avalanche 2009.
Spice shop Yakawlang bazaar Bamian on my way from Daykundi in 2017.
Afghanistan’s Grand Canyon- Bande Amir, Bamian.
Road to Daykuni from Bamian in Central Afghanistan.
View of Bamian from inside the Buddha’s complex
Gold from Raghistaan in Badakhshan.
Naghlue dam/lake - on my way to Jalalabad stopped to take a photo of this catch on the Kabul- Jalalabad highway.
Precious stones from Nuristan province deep in Eastern Afghanistan.
Rubies from Jegdalak.
Saffron, Herat.
Flying over Nuristan.
Sarobi district- half way between Kabul and Jalalabad city in eastern Afghanistan.
Khost Firang on my way with Afghan officials to Northern Afghanistan.
Systani village, outside of Marjah, during a film shoot for Vice on HBO.
Tourmaline from a trader in Kunar province.
Eastern Afghanistan.
View over hamlets in Badakhshan province during harsh winter.

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1/4- The Taliban's finance ministry has ordered all MALE employees to return to work tomorrow. If they do not, they will be registered as absent and may be fired. Women employees are ordered to stay at home “until proper work environment is provided.”
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