Faces of Afghanistan

“A landscape might be denuded, a human settlement abandoned or lost, but always, just beneath the ground lies history of preposterous grandeur. . . They are everywhere, these individuals of undaunted humankind, irrepressibly optimistic and proud.” -  The Carpet Wars, Christopher Kremmer Kabul Herat Kabul Panjshir Valley Yet even at their most turbulent, the Afghans have tended to impress travellers with their dignity and hospitality as much as their fierce independen…