صاحب اللواء
10-11-2012, 07:54 PM
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Capital growth: Low-income housing spreads into the hills surrounding the Afghan capital Kabul. Many are merely mud houses, without running water or electricity - and with open
sewers running downhill
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Teeming with life: The crowded hills of Kabul's outer suburbs are
home to more than a million residents. Many of them are among the 23 per cent of Kabulis who live below the poverty line
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On the verge of collapse: The booming construction industry in
the capital faces a shuddering halt as Nato-led coalition forces withdraw from 2014, and the all-important foreign aid begins to dry up
Low-income housing has spread high into the hills and, while running water has been recently added to some of the luckier neighbourhoods, foul and disease-laden open sewers still run downhill through streets and putrid gutters.
In suburbs like Jamal Mina, home to construction worker Ahmad Tazim and his family, residents are almost literally on top of each other - living a hand-to- existence made even wore brutal by the seemingly endless conflict in the country.
But life is to become even worse for Tazim and other construction workers like him - the booming construction industry is about to bust. And it's not just disastrous news for the poor in the country: the emerging upper class in Kabul alsoface losing their new mansions and high-rise apartments in a much-feared economic freefall.
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Looking out: Saber, an Afghan small shop owner and a resident of the hillside neighbourhood of Jamal Mina, stands on a small room he was adding to his existing home where he lives with his family high above downtown Kabul
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Extraordinary: This picture taken at sunrise shows Kabul through
a thick haze. The most disadvantaged Afghans sought shelter in slums and makeshift camps, where there is little water or electricity
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Cramped conditions: A resident of the hillside neighborhood of Jamal Mina walks downhill towards the city of Kabul on September 27
According to the World Bank more than a third of the population of Afghanistan live below the poverty line, more than half are vulnerable and at serious risk of falling into poverty.
Despite this, a healthy injection of billions of dollars in foreign aid and reconstruction contracts have fuelled a roaring construction industry in Kabul for much of the past decade.
The real-estate market - catering to not-only wealthy Kabulis but international organisations and foreign embassies - is not seeing the same demand it did ten years ago.
Capital growth: Low-income housing spreads into the hills surrounding the Afghan capital Kabul. Many are merely mud houses, without running water or electricity - and with open
sewers running downhill
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/10/article-2215793-153BCB4F000005DC-144_964x641.jpg
Teeming with life: The crowded hills of Kabul's outer suburbs are
home to more than a million residents. Many of them are among the 23 per cent of Kabulis who live below the poverty line
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/10/article-2215793-156ED980000005DC-60_964x918.jpg
On the verge of collapse: The booming construction industry in
the capital faces a shuddering halt as Nato-led coalition forces withdraw from 2014, and the all-important foreign aid begins to dry up
Low-income housing has spread high into the hills and, while running water has been recently added to some of the luckier neighbourhoods, foul and disease-laden open sewers still run downhill through streets and putrid gutters.
In suburbs like Jamal Mina, home to construction worker Ahmad Tazim and his family, residents are almost literally on top of each other - living a hand-to- existence made even wore brutal by the seemingly endless conflict in the country.
But life is to become even worse for Tazim and other construction workers like him - the booming construction industry is about to bust. And it's not just disastrous news for the poor in the country: the emerging upper class in Kabul alsoface losing their new mansions and high-rise apartments in a much-feared economic freefall.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/10/article-2215793-153C3A01000005DC-663_964x630.jpg
Looking out: Saber, an Afghan small shop owner and a resident of the hillside neighbourhood of Jamal Mina, stands on a small room he was adding to his existing home where he lives with his family high above downtown Kabul
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/10/article-2215793-15552E20000005DC-465_964x618.jpg
Extraordinary: This picture taken at sunrise shows Kabul through
a thick haze. The most disadvantaged Afghans sought shelter in slums and makeshift camps, where there is little water or electricity
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/10/article-2215793-153BECC1000005DC-716_964x641.jpg
Cramped conditions: A resident of the hillside neighborhood of Jamal Mina walks downhill towards the city of Kabul on September 27
According to the World Bank more than a third of the population of Afghanistan live below the poverty line, more than half are vulnerable and at serious risk of falling into poverty.
Despite this, a healthy injection of billions of dollars in foreign aid and reconstruction contracts have fuelled a roaring construction industry in Kabul for much of the past decade.
The real-estate market - catering to not-only wealthy Kabulis but international organisations and foreign embassies - is not seeing the same demand it did ten years ago.