Afghanistan - My Kabul 1 of 3 - BBC Culture Documentary

Afghanistan - My Kabul 1 of 3 - BBC Culture Documentary, recorded 20.02.2011 In this BBC documentary, journalist and native Afghani Tahir Qadiry revisits his hometown of Kabul. Qadiry meets with not only the historians and politicians, but also the workers, children, and homemakers who represent the over-four-million people who live in Kabul today. Ultimately, the document comes to the point that Kabul consists of many varying regions, classes of people, and amount of progress versus traditionalism.

It is evident from the documentary that Kabul is beginning to reach out to the modern age but various factors keep parts of the city from progressing. Narrow streets, hundred year old architecture, and poor sanitation systems seem to encourage old customs and little advancement. The people, though incredibly accepting and welcoming to Qadiry and his crew, still hold many of the fundamental values from Taliban occupation. With all its residents, it has become impossible to manage pollution and the documentary estimates that over 3000 people die every year from poor sanitation. Many families have to go all the way to the central part of the city just to carry water to their homes (Qadiry at one point tries to help a man to carry his water jugs but he can barely make it a few feet up a hill). Although an influx of foreign aid has begun to help reconstruct the new city, many parts have yet to see the money trickle down.

However, the most central areas of Kabul such as Shahr-e-now are not only progressive and urban but thriving, erudite and expensive. This district is much more progressive in its architecture, styles of clothing, successful corporations, building of public schools and private universities, and rapidly growing use of technology. After much music, cinema, and television had been banned under strict Taliban regime, the residents of Kabul are enjoying making progressive change and converting to a more westernized lifestyle.

For more information and to join the Forum, see http://2020afghanistan.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-kabul-explores-varying-sides-o... .

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[RuniTravel]

Reply to FKhorasani87 > Afghanistan - My Kabul 1 of 3 - BBC Culture Documentary We have two enemies in Afghansitan: Porkistan and pashtun tribalism.

>> Have you considered that your greatest enemy is yourself? Calling Pakistan "Pokistan" will not help you solve your problem ... and Deleting your comment is as you see quite useles, Cheers Runi Toconillo .

[ArdellMindiqa262]

nun wie geil hab 3 brüste

[septynets]

@Temorkhan Obviously this war helps Pakistan to weaken US authority in Asia and US to make money from its own weapon manufactory. There is no peace between cultures (preferred way of life) only respect one to another.

[septynets]

@Temorkhan interesting way to put it. I want to agree but can't, because I know who were there and still are there. Only good words coming out from them. But to understand, (us Afghanistan, Afghanistan us, NOTE --> im not American) we can't. Same as you, cultural differences. It is also not just terrain but religion with deep tradition, lack of understanding of other opinions and different ways of life. Rape, murder everywhere is treated almost the same.

[Temorkhan]

As for the castration and stoning of women and suicide-children, well yeah. We can't all be like America and have the highest child-raping rates, sick serial killers, biggest porn industry in which you show your respect for women, and a peaceful government that doesn't use suicide-children but actually goes bombing them on daily bases.

[RuniTravel]

@maiwandwal > Typical idiot ... It is understandable that if ppl like you cannot manage your little pile of rocks that U call a Country, you will have problems also with the Internet and "Social Networking" ... Although I find it terrible that you stone your women to death and castrate them, pack your children with bombs & tell them they will go to heaven, please respect at least one rule ... hat is GOD's first and most important rule. Runi

[maiwandwal]

@RuniTravel Typical coward - why come to my channel and respond- why not here? what have you got to hide Mr Patriot - I mean blind patriot!

BTW LOL to ur comment on my page - FIRST we send your soldiers in body bags as souvenirs and 2ndly the rest we use as fertiliser! SO keep on coming - BTW It's laughable with all the satelites and other advanced technology you have and we have old Russian guns and your ass is still being kicked.