A family flees across the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on their way to become refugees in Pakistan (1988) Two young Afghan fighters share a joke during a lull in fighting in fierce ...
The ruler of Afghanistan is a man of many accomplishments. At 51, Mohammed Zahir Shah can snag the wiliest trout in the Hindu Kush, swoop down a ski slope at 60 m.p.h., or drop a brace of ...
Two successive earthquakes in the Hindu Kush mountains in March 2002 killed more than 1,100 people. An earthquake in May 1998, in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces in northern Afghanistan ...
The Hindu Kush Eagles Mountaineering Team in Ghor province successfully ascended the 3,350-meter Siyah Koh peak (Black Mountain Peak), located south of Firozkoh, the provincial capital. Jan Mohammad ...
One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...
Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes - especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. In June last year, the province ...
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, but heroin flows to Europe continue unabated
Before 2022, Afghanistan was by far the most important supplier of heroin to Europe, with around 80% coming from the Hindu Kush. If this heroin were to fail to materialize, it could have dramatic ...
This rope of yak hair, nearly 6m (20ft) long was hand woven by Afghan people from the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. I received it for Christmas 2009 from my son Chris Philipson. He bought it ...
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