Portraits from Afghanistan (3)

2. Doves at the Kart-e Sakhi mosque in Kabul, on October 10, 2011. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)

3. An Afghan girl works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad on October 10, 2011. (Rahmat Gul/AP)

4. An Afghan man rides a horse in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

5. A goat colored for identification is seen at an Afghan livestock market in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

6. Muttahara Mohammed, 5, attends a class on how to read verses of the Quran in a mosque in Kabul on October 26, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

7. An Afghan boy leans against a wall as he cries on the outskirts of Kabul, on October 4, 2011. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

8. An Afghan day laborer works at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul on October 4, 2011. Afghanistan has been the top recipient of US aid over the past ten years, with some $18.8 billion flowing from Washington to projects meant to stabilize the war-torn country and win "hearts and minds" from a stubborn insurgency. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

9. Muhammed Muheisen / AP An Afghan youth who sells balloons picks a balloon for a child on a roadside in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.

10. Ahmad Masood / Reuters - A laborer, right, who works at a coal dump site, cleans his face after washing in the early morning hours outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 18.

11. An Afghan girl looks out from a house in Kabul on October 16, 2011. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)

12. AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen An Afghan man, looks back while returning to his home carrying a plastic container filled with water on his back, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011.

13. Girls attend a class at a camp for the displaced in Kabul on October 11, 2011. Women's rights have improved in Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted, but recent Oxfam data shows women's personal safety, opportunity, and human rights inside the nation are beginning to erode back to conditions that existed previously. Under the Taliban, girls schools had been closed, women were banned from working outside the home, and forced to wear the burqa. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)

14. AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen An Afghan boy holds his goat while his father, center, talks with a customer, right, at an open livestock market for the upcoming Eid-al-Adha festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.

15. Meena Rahmani, 26, owner of The Strikers, the country's first bowling center, holds a bowling ball in Kabul. In an Afghan capital scarred by years of war, a young Afghan woman has bet $1 million that the country could use a chance to have a bit of fun. Located just down the street from Kabul's glitziest mall, it offers a place where Afghan men, women and families can gather, relax, bowl a few games and not be burdened by the social, religious and cultural restrictions that govern daily life in the impoverished country. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

16. AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen An Afghan boy holds his goat while his father, center, talks with a customer, right, at an open livestock market for the upcoming Eid-al-Adha festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.

17. An internally displaced Afghan girl smiles at a camp in Kabul on October 11, 2011. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images

18. Afghan women buy bangles for the upcoming Eid al Adha festival in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

19. An Afghan man working in tandoor shop takes a break in Kabul. In most Afghan villages women cook Nan-I-tandoori, oval or circle bread, the Afghani national bread in tandoors, a cylindrical clay oven. (AP)

20. Shafiyah, 27, released from prison after three years in jail, poses for a portrait at a shelter run by women for Afghan women in Kabul on October 12, 2011. Shafiyah was arrested and imprisoned after fleeing her Taliban husband who became destitute after the Taliban was ousted. Women's rights in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw, reports by Oxfam and ActionAid said. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)

21. An Afghan child lies on the ground next to a woman begging for money in a street in Kabul on October 23, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP

22. Afghan children pose for a picture on a destroyed armored vehicle on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul on October 12, 2011. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

23. A burqa-clad Afghan woman holds her baby as she walks in the outskirts of Herat on October 25, 2011. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

24. Mohammed Abdulraheem, 3, pauses while heading to school in Kabul on October 19, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

25. Tajj Woroh holds her son Deewar, 4 months, who suffers from chronic malnutrition, while waiting for a doctor at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul on October 27, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP

27. A family walks by riot police during a demonstration against a proposed U.S.-Afghan strategic security agreement in Kabul on October 24, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated at Kabul University against the agreement that many interpret as affording foreign forces long-term bases in Afghanistan. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

28. Shop owner Mohammed Ahmadi, 32, stands inside his dress shop in Kabul. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

29. Horsemen compete during a Buzkashi game in Kabul October 27, 2011. (Omar Sobhani/AP

30. Women walk in a market in Kabul on October 26, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

31. Ibraheem Khan, 22, stands in front of the clothes shop where he works in Kabul on October 23, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

32. Addicts smoke heroin in a destroyed building in Herat on October 17, 2011. Ten years after the 2001 American invasion to drive the Taliban from power, Afghanistan still produces 90 percent of the world's illegal opium, funding the insurgency despite an expensive Western eradication program. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

33. Afghan children enjoy a swing ride set up in a cemetery outside Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 11, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

34. An Afghan man who sells carpets displays a handmade carpet bearing the image of U.S. President Barack Obama inside his shop, in Kabul, on October 12, 2011. The shop owner said that he spent a year sewing the carpet and it is not for sale. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

35. People visit a cemetery outside the Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 24, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

36. A laborer carries a sack of coal to be loaded onto a truck at a coal dump site outside Kabul, on October 19, 2011. Each laborer earns $10 on an average working day. Most of them come from the northern provinces, leaving their families behind in search of fortune in the capital. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)

37. A man feeds chickens on a farm on the outskirts of Jalalabad on October 27, 2011. (Rahmat Gul/AP)

38. Mahfouz Bahbah, 12, stands on a roadside hoping to sell his balloons during sunset in Kabul, on October 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

39. The Qala Iktyaruddin Citadel is seen in Herat, Afghanistan, on October 17, 2011. An ancient citadel in Herat that dates back to Alexander the Great has been restored, a bright sign of progress in a country destroyed by war. The citadel, a fortress that resembles a sand castle overlooking the city, and a new museum of artifacts at the site was completed by hundreds of local craftsmen and funding and support from the U.S. and German governments and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. (AP Photo/Houshang Hashimi)

40. Young Eid Mohammed, who suffers from from chronic malnutrition, lies on a bed at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital, in Kabul, on October 27, 2011. Afghanistan, one of the world's least-developed nations in the world, has an infant mortality rate of 129 deaths per 1,000 births; Afghan children die before reaching 5 at a rate of 191 for every 1,000 births.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

41. Boys sit on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul on October 17, 2011. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

42. Ethnic Turkmen boys sit in a camp for refugees returning from Pakistan in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, August 15, 2006. The Turkmen-Afghan community says it can

43. Laborers have breakfast in their quarters at a coal dump site outside Kabul on October 18, 2011. Each laborer earns ten dollars on an average working day. Most of them come from the northern provinces, leaving their families behind in search of fortune in the capital. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

44. An Afghan boy named Ishtak, holds a solar and crank powered radio given to him by United States Army soldiers in the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (AP)

45. Afghan citizens listen to speakers during the closing press briefing at the London Conference on Afghanistan at Lancaster House January 28. The communiqué offers support and funding for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's plans to reconcile with moderate Taliban insurgents. Part of the plan includes inviting the militants to peace talks later this year. [LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images]

46. Jonathan Saruk / Reportage by Getty Images Afghans look at movie posters outside of Pamir Cinema in Kabul.

48. An Afghan man carries sweets called jalebi for sale in Kabul October 25. [REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail]

49. Pedestrians walk in Kabul August 10. Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by 31% in the first six months of 2010 from the same period last year, the UN recently reported, with ordinary Afghans bearing the brunt of an intensifying Taliban insurgency. [SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images]

50. An Afghan rock musician performs in front of a cheering crowd during Sound Central, a one-day "stealth festival" in Kabul October 1, 2011. Sound Central, the one-day "stealth festival" that organizers hope will draw 1,000 to 2,000 young Afghans, is the first music festival the country has seen since it plunged into three decades of violence in the late 1970s. In a country where music was banned for years under the austere Taliban regime, the festival is a daring venture which has been publicized largely by word of mouth, and the date has been kept deliberately vague. Messages revealing the time and venue will go out to music fans only on the morning of the event. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)