Afghanistan: Five Years After The Taliban

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In the five years since the overthrow of the Taliban, Afghanistan has seen several major political achievements -- approving a new constitution in January 2004, choosing a president in October 2004, and electing a new parliament in September 2005. The result is a motley legislature intended to ensure that Afghanistan's many regions, factions, tribes, and ethnic groups are represented.
 
A woman in Kabul shows that she voted in Afghanistan\'s October 2004 presidential election (AFP) Delegates discuss issues at the Loya Jirga in Kabul in December 2003 (epa) A U.S. soldier patrols the 19th-century Khir-Kot fort in Paktika Province in October 2004 (epa) A Pakistani soldier monitors the Afghan-Pakistan border in 2005 (epa) Afghans harvesting opium poppies in Kandahar Province (AFP) An Afghan man waits for customers at a market in Jalalabad (epa) An elderly fruit vendor sets up shop inside a bullet-riddled car in Kabul (epa) Afghan children carry water to their homes in Kabul (epa) A boat lies on the bottom what used to be the Kargah Lake, dried up after three years of drought (AFP) An Afghan widow and her children at the Hazara cemetery in Kabul (epa) A man walks a horse carrying his wife through a street devastated by an earthquake in 2002 (AFP) Girls study in an open-air class while waiting for a new school to be built in the background (epa) Afghan refugees ready to leave Pakistan for Afghanistan in March (epa)
 

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