Kabul: Life in Kabul has changed in six weeks since the Taliban sweeps the capital of Afghanistan – not at once.
Some things remain the same: traffic returns to noisy snarl and jammed.
Young men still play cricket and watch traditional wrestling matches in Chaman-e-Hozari Park City.
Under their previous rules, the Taliban prohibits a lot of sports, but so far it hasn’t done it now.
Many women seem to live on the streets of the days after takeover of August 15, but in a few weeks since, the more it reappears in public, some in the coat longer and headscarves, some in the Burqa all of which includes, which has been used Traditionally by many people in Afghanistan regardless of the Taliban.
The car waits for traffic as Afghanns shop in the local market in Kabul (AP photo) a woman on the last day past a row of beauty salons, where some advertisements in the window have been damaged or covered to scratch images of women, but some ads are not touched.
Imbemematics among places between Kabul’s current place.
Will the Taliban hard-line impose a hard limitation that they did when they ruled in the 1990s, or would there be flexibility margins? Photos of all living things, even animals, are banned under their previous government.
So far it hasn’t happened, but it’s still not known how far the Taliban itself has decided to leave.
Women have felt limit.
Women’s employees in the Kabul City Government are mostly told to stay at home, and middle school girls have not been allowed to return to class.
Afghanistan plays cricket in Chaman-e-Hozari Park in Kabul (AP photo) one smoother visual change: fewer men who look wearing western dresses.
Government employees are the people who are most often wearing western-style clothes, and they have now turned to the combination of traditional Shalwar-Kameez shirts and loose pants.
The most boomed change is the presence of the Taliban itself.
Taliban fighters drive traffic or guard many checkpoints mostly wearing a blue camouflage uniform, giving them more official air.
But many other fighters wore Shalwar Kameez.
Most have never been to Kabul in their lives.
A woman walked past a beauty salon with a window decoration that had been damaged in Kabul (AP Photo) one night, sitting warriors kept a building where the Taliban was being placed.
Behind them on the wall of the explosion, the old mural described a woman behind barbed wire, was originally painted to comment on the violence of war.
On another day, a group of Taliban, carrying their automatic weapons, enjoying boating days on the lake near Kabul, talking about how strange their lives in this city.
Other signs show increased economic despair.
The economy has deteriorated before the Taliban comes, with more than 55% of life below the poverty level.
Now after the takeover, it was rapidly destroyed, with 97% UN warnings could be below the level of poverty at the end of the year.
Taliban fighters enjoy a boat ride on the Qarghan Dam, Kabul Suburbs.
(AP Photo) Emergency market has appeared everywhere, stocked with furniture and household items when people sell what they can.
On one, women take carpets for sale.
The other on the outskirts of Chaman-e-Hozari Park is worse, with the old man peddling the stack of old clothes.
The district with restaurants and upscale shops is Empier.
Everyone talks about leaving the country.
In camps that are transferred internally, food contributions are distributed.
The guy-covered man works at a brick factory saying they are still producing, but fewer people buy.
When a man marched for prayer on Friday, a little girl sat in front of them, hoping to make a shining money.
When the night arrived, a woman crossed the road holding the hands of a little girl and boy, Kabul lights shrank across the hill behind them.
Life changes under the Taliban, not all at once
