“(A visitor) would notice the absence of regular courts of
justice, and of every thing like an organized police. He would be surprised at
the fluctuation and instability of the civil institutions. He would find it
difficult to comprehend how a nation could subsist in such disorder; and would
pity those who were compelled to pass their days in such a scene, and those
whose minds were trained by their unhappy situation to fraud and violence, to
rapine, deceit and revenge.”
-- Montstuart Elphinstone, “An Account of the Kingdom of
Caubul,” 1815
Top: Guard, police academy graduation, Kabul Polytechnic, summer 2005.
Bottom: Darulaman Palace, New Year's Day, 2014
(Photos by Jim Chiavelli. All rights reserved: I will cut you.)
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