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Kite 'running' in a Kabul graveyard
Al Jazeera will be reporting all week from Afghanistan in a series of special programems and reports.
David Foster, one of the channel's presenters, will be posting a daily diary on his experiences of Kabul, a city of contrasts.
David Foster, one of the channel's presenters, will be posting a daily diary on his experiences of Kabul, a city of contrasts.
There is a dusty, beaten track that winds up from the centre of Kabul to a graveyard on the edge of this baking, sprawling capital city.
And it is to here that we are taken by the bearded old Afghan with blackened teeth who says we must follow.
He climbs the bank on which are planted make-shift flagpoles hung with green strips of cloth that signify the death of a martyr.
It is close to dusk and this is the back-end of a pretty lawless city. We obey his beckoning finger, reach the top of the bank and see the headstones.
He tells us what he wants – and what he wants is to teach me how to fly a kite! In a graveyard! Teapot on a tombstone too! Surreal!
City of contrasts
It is a city of contrasts. "Be careful. Do not stay in one place for too long," we are warned by our security man. But how can you not when all the Afghans want is to talk, ask about your country, shake your hand (again and again) and give you tea (again and again).
They are hospitable, interesting and interested. And that is why we are here - to see and to show the sides of Afghanistan that you rarely do see. To explain how the people live and what their hopes are.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FB6F2C40-29FA-4193-B541-19C9DA5CA136.htm
And it is to here that we are taken by the bearded old Afghan with blackened teeth who says we must follow.
He climbs the bank on which are planted make-shift flagpoles hung with green strips of cloth that signify the death of a martyr.
It is close to dusk and this is the back-end of a pretty lawless city. We obey his beckoning finger, reach the top of the bank and see the headstones.
He tells us what he wants – and what he wants is to teach me how to fly a kite! In a graveyard! Teapot on a tombstone too! Surreal!
City of contrasts
It is a city of contrasts. "Be careful. Do not stay in one place for too long," we are warned by our security man. But how can you not when all the Afghans want is to talk, ask about your country, shake your hand (again and again) and give you tea (again and again).
They are hospitable, interesting and interested. And that is why we are here - to see and to show the sides of Afghanistan that you rarely do see. To explain how the people live and what their hopes are.
Read More
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FB6F2C40-29FA-4193-B541-19C9DA5CA136.htm
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