Woman spinning yarn

Pashtun woman spinning yarn from wool. Photographer: Randolph Bezzant Holmes. Collection: "Northern India and the North-West Frontier Province" (1910-1919).

Scenery in Wardak

Photos of Wardak province, Afghanistan, published in 1988 by the Afghan Media Resource Center:

View of fruit trees and irrigated fields. Photographer: Muhammad Saeed.

View of fruit trees between canyons. Photographer: Muhammad Saeed.

View of fruit trees and irrigated fields. Photographer: Muhammad Saeed.

Kuchi children in Balochistan

Kuchi nomads photographed by Rafiullah Mandokhail in Zhob district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Kuchis are ethnic Pashtuns who migrate seasonally between Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

Photos: farm villages in Nangarhar (late 1980's)

Photos from farm villages in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, published between 1988 and 1989 by the Afghan Media Resource Center:

Children carrying food wrapped in cloth. Photographer: Muhammad Younus. Published in 1988.

Farmers carrying harvest. Photographer: Muhammad Ali. Published in 1988.

Children sitting on a woven wooden-bed. In the background, an old woman threshes wheat by donkeys and a man winnows wheat. Photographer: Muhammad Hassan. published in 1989.

A house destroyed by Soviet bombardment. Photographer: Muhammad Hassan. Published in 1988.

An armed mujahid inspecting harvest burned by government forces. Photographer: Sayed Sabber. Published in 1989.

A farmer cutting the branch of a tree with an axe. Photographer: Mohammad Younus. Published in 1988.

An old woman looking for her belongings under the debris of her home, destroyed by government bombardment. Photographer: Muhammad Rahim. Published in 1989.

A farmer carrying straw. Photographer: Muhammad Zaman. Published in 1989.

A farmer and a child drinking tea. Photographer: Muhammad Rahim. Published in 1988.

Scenery in Chamkani

Scenery in Chamkani district, Paktia province, Afghanistan. Photographer: Manzoor Shah. Published in 1988 by the Afghan Media Resource Center.

Nomads in Waziristan

Photo of a Pashtun nomad family in Waziristan, Pakistan, taken by British photographer Randolph Bezzant Holmes between 1915 and the 1930's. Pashtun nomads are also known as Kuchis and travel seasonally between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Shepherd

A shepherd watches over his livestock in Kandahar, Afghanistan on march 17, 2016. / Jawed Tanveer/AFP/Getty Images