After 10 months of effort, the second batch of training is finally underway! On July 26, 2008 the first class of Afghan Border Police began BOMBAF training in Kabul.
KABUL - At long last, it feels that we are tangibly closer to an actual success on my UNDP project in Afghanistan. This past Saturday, almost […]
Is that a double double on tap I see before me? Nay…. just my Dushanbe bathwater.
DUSHANBE — It has been uncharacteristically rainy in Dushanbe the last few days. The upside of this is that it temporarily washed some of the dust from the air and today dawned notably cooler and fresher than it’s been in […]
Canadian cars are the height of Cool in Kabul.
DUSHANBE — Overheard during dinner at La Grand Dame:
“My mother’s advice to me was ‘just smile and swallow, Dear!’”
– from a stunningly beautiful and entirely anonymous young woman
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PUL-E-KOMRI, AFGHANISTAN — There is a grimy little roadside place in Pul-e-Komri where we often stop for lunch on the […]
DUSHANBE — Thursday started out like any normal day, and would have ended that way too if it wasn’t for a little itch… It could have been the bedbugs, the decaffeinated water in my shower or the new towels. I may never know. But, something was compelling me to get out of my apartment.
I was […]