Afghanistan Quote of the Day: 24 February 2014

"One of them was pointing out of the window at the traffic policeman. These things had attracted the attention of foreigners in Herat for seventy years. I had read five different travel writers on the traffic policemen. Their peaked hats and whistles struck visitors as particularly incongruous amongst the tumult of the Afghan bazaar."
Rory Stewart, "The Places in Between," 2004

Traffic cops in Kabul
Top and middle, 2007
Bottom, 2005
(Photos: Jim Chiavelli)