(31 Dec 1991) W096589
EF402/A - Afghanistan: Culture
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Afghanistan - 31 December 1991
Afghanistan is a country which has not only been physically devastated by ten years of civil war, its very cultural heritage is under threat. With Soviet influence in the cities, the traditionalists have become even more than formerly, entrenched in the countryside and the refugee camps in Pakistan.
Gvs of mosque
Street scenes in Kabul showing women wearing modern dress and burkas
Uzbek women walking along road
Departure of Soviet troops
Afghan women soldiers
Government school for orphan boys
Books in school and children reading
Mujahaddin school with children chanting from the Koran
Children playing outside Mujahaddin school
Sot group of boys singing Jihad is our way
Carpets showing tanks kalashnikov rifles and other trapping of war
Orphan boys making carpets
CU traditional carpet
Roasting rice in village
Women working in cotton fields alongside other villagers
Tents of a refugee camp in Pakistan
Little girl speaking in Afghan saying she wants to go to school
Teenage boy saying women should not be educated - the government's moves to introduce women's education was the reason they left Afghanistan
Widows being trained to use sewing machines
VS of widows with their teachers
Kabul University sign
Group of male and female students
Groups of students talking
Students walking along road.
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