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Afghanistan Before The Wars: Photos From A Bygone Age Of Freedom

by | 20th, February 2011

THE news is full of bloody images of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and… But what of Afghanistan, a place that has slipped from the news agenda, only featuring when a British serviceman is killed? The place was not always a warzone full of angry men pretending to be what they think is right. Once upon a time in Afghanistan, women and men mixed and life was familiar to any Westerner…

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The Queen, stands alongside King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan shortly after his arrival at London's Victoria station, at the start of his four-day State Visit which has been cut short because of the Indo-Pakistan conflict. * ... The King is here with his 39-year old daughter, Princess Bilquis who is taking the place of her mother, who is ill.

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