Daily life in Afghanistan

epa01638345 Afghan police personnel attend their graduation ceremony for some 450 new officers in Kabul, Afghanistan, 17 February 2009. International donors have financed the bulk of the force's budget, since the Afghan government does not have the revenue to pay its police. The international community pay Afghan National Police salaries through the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan, administered by the United Nations (UN) Development Program. EPA/S. SABAWOON

epa01638514 Former Taliban militants are seen praying during a ceremony to mark their reconciliation with the Afghan government, in Kabul, Afghanistan 17 February 2009. Some 60 former Talban militants laid down their arms in Kabul on 17 February, and joined the peace process. EPA/S. SABAWOON

An Afghan carries a bag of food after a distribution by the ANA (Afghan National Army) during CIMIC (Civil Military Cooperation) operation on February 16, 2009 in Dawlatkhel, in the Alassay valley. AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -FEBRUARY 13 : An Afghan boy stands by his fruit cart as a snowstorm hits Kabul for a second straight day closing the airport February 13, 2009 in Kabul Afghanistan. The storm hasn't delayed the visit of the new U.S regional envoy Richard Holbrooke who landed yesterday to help push President Obama's strategy a day after a bold Taliban assault on the Jusitce ministry and the prisons department on Wednesday. Afghanistan has frequently accused extremists based in Pakistan's tribal areas or Pakistan's spy service of being behind several major attacks in Kabul. The latest attack is a reminder of challenges facing Obama as he increases troop levels promising up to 30,000 more troops. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 11: Afgahn police inspect the scene at the bureau of prisons justice building which was attacked as Taliban militants targeted three government buildings with coordinated suicide bombs killing at least 19 people and injuring at least 54, on February 11, 2009 in Kabul Afghanistan. Afghan officials said at least seven militants were also killed after launching the near-simultaneous attacks on the prisons directorate and justice and education ministries. US President Barack Obama is working on doubling the number of US troops fighting against a widening Taliban-led insurgency. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 09: A Heroin addict shivers in the cold outside the abandoned Russian Cultural center used as the heroin gathering point in the captiol city February 09, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Heroin addicts are on the increase in Kabul as the numbers of unemployed increase and the drug continues to be readily available and extremely cheap at only 50 afghany per hit or $1 USD. Afghanistan accounts for more than 90 per cent of the world's heroin supply. Its annual opium harvest is worth up to $3bn, or almost half the country's official gross domestic product. Profits from heroin fund the Taliban, along with corrupt Afghan officials who profit from it. Recently the Obama's US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke stated that the US counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan \"may be the single most ineffective program in the history of foreign policy.\" Many Afghans have come back from Iran working in blue collar labor jobs already addicted. There are 1.6 million

LAGHMAN, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 08: Sayed Abdul Karim, 80-years-old, sits with his grandaughter, Camina, 9-years-old, (L) in an internally displaced camp three hours from their village in Galochi district, bombed in a recent US military raid February 08, 2009 in Laghman, Afghanistan. The operation drove hundreds of families out of their villages after 270 homes were destroyed and 16 civilians killed. President Karzai condemned the raid stating that it only weakened the Afghan government and strengthened the terrorists. The operation resulted in the deaths of only 15 militants. Civilian causualties at the hand of foreign troops have become a sensitive issue in a country where the anger amongst the locals creates huge tensions between the Karzai goverment and the foreign troops. The families of the region say they have been attacked six times and are still not receiving no assistance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

An Afghan policeman is seen alert during a routine patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. Militant suicide bombings and ambushes last year killed more than 900 Afghan police. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

An Afghan balloon seller arrives in a market to sell balloons in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, Dec 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

(NYT30) KAMU, Afghanistan -- Dec. 1, 2008 -- AFGHAN-U.S.-STRATEGY -- United States Marines at the top of a peak in Kamu, Afghanistan, Oct. 27, 2008, part of a joint foot patrol between the Afghan National Army, their USMC embedded training team, and United States Army soldiers, as they worked on clearing a mountain ridge overlooking an American combat outpost near the Pakistani border. As President-elect Barack Obama announced the members of his new security team on Monday, one of the most difficult challenges they face is not an unexpected foreign crisis, but a mission that is already planned: ObamaÕs vow to send thousands of American troops to help defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

Afghan boys watch US Army solider from 1-506 Infantry Division patrol through a market on November 28, 2008 in Paktika province, situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. About 200 Taliban fighters attacked on November 27 a large logistics convoy in Afghanistan, sparking fighting that killed 12 Afghan police and soldiers. They attacked the convoy of more than 70 vehicles on Thursday as it was transporting winter supplies to police and soldiers in the western province of Badghis. AFP PHOTO/ DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

epa01561664 Afghan police inspect the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack, targeting a convoy of foreign forces, near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, 27 November 2008. A suicide attacker detonated his explosive-filled vehicle near the foreign forces convoy in Kabul on November 27, killing four civilians and injuring 16 others. EPA/S. SABAWOON

CAMP SALERNO, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 25: U.S Air Force hospital staff Tawana Jones (L) comforts her friend, U.S Air Force Senior Airman Jeimmy Rivas, after she made an error in the emergency room outside the combat support hospital on the U.S military forward operating base (FOB) at Camp Salerno on November 25, 2008 in Khost, Afghanistan. Camp Salerno has the only combat support hospital in the country dealing with Afghan and U.S military trauma patients injured in the volatile region of Khost and the surrounding areas along the front line near the Pakistan border. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Returned Afghan refugees wait for their turn for a free medical check at a mobile clinic at a refugee camp in Sheikh Mersi in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The U.N.'s refugee chief called Monday for wealthy nations to do more to help destitute returnees as he visited their makeshift settlement. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Afghan victims receive treatment at a hospital after they were injured in a suicide attack in Batti Kot district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy passing through a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing at least 20 civilians and a U.S. soldier and wounding an additional 74 civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan National Policeman whose leg was blown off by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) pauses while taking a break for tea at an observation post in the hills of the Sabari district of Khost Province along the Afghan-Pakistan border on November 9, 2008. Khost province is located directly across the border from the lawless Waziristan region in Pakistan, where it is believed foreign fighters flood into Afghanistan to combat coalition forces. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan National Policeman (C) rests at an observation post in the hills of the Sabari district of Khost Province along the Afghan-Pakistan border on November 9, 2008 after visiting his family. Khost province is located directly across the border from the lawless Waziristan region in Pakistan, where it is believed foreign fighters flood into Afghanistan to combat coalition forces. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

*STAND ALONE FEATURE -- (NYT48) NEAR KAMU, Afghanistan -- Nov. 1, 2008 -- AFGHANISTAN-2 -- The son of Nezamudin, a commander working in Afghan security, is comforted by an Afghan Army soldier on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008 as he arrived near the village of Kamu for his father's funeral. Nezamudin was killed during a mortar attack by the Taliban at an American and Afghan military base, Combat Outpost Lowell, near AfghanistanÕs border with Pakistan. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

CAMP BLESSING, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 21: A 155mm Howlitzer artilery gun is fired on a Taliban position on October 21, 2008 from Camp Blessing in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. American military units there are battling the Taliban in some of the fiercest fighting in the country. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

STANDALONE PHOTO -- (NYT3) KAMU, Afghanistan -- Oct. 20, 2008 -- AFHGANISTAN-3 -- Two U.S. Marines, embedded with members of the Afghan national army (ANA), pray before a meal along with two Afghan soldiers at an outpost in the village of Kamu, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. The men were praying for an Afghan colleague who was injured recently during an ambush at another location. The Marines train and mentor the ANA soldiers who share the outpost with soldiers with the U.S. Army's 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry. The wooded and mountainous terrain surrounding the outpost provides cover and high ground for fighters attacking it. The outpost was set up to control access to the region by insurgent and Taliban fighters. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

YEAR-2008 An Afghan refugee child hides from a dust storm behind a tent at a refugee camp in Kabul on October 7, 2008. Over a quarter million Afghans have returned home this year from Pakistan and Iran, many of them reportedly due to economic and security uncertainties faced in exile, the United Nations said. AFP PHOTO/ Manpreet ROMANA (Photo credit should read MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images)

epa01501622 Pakistani tribesmen from tribal forces shout slogans against the Taliban in Raghagan, some 12 kms northeast of Khar, in the troubled Bajaur agency along the Afghanistan border, 26 September 2008. The fighting in Bajaur, a sanctuary of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, has so far left more than 800 militants and dozens of troops dead since August while more than 250,000 people have been displaced. Pakistan is under intense pressure to eliminate sanctuaries of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in its tribal region, but the militants have responded by intensifying suicide attacks across the country. EPA/AAMIR QURESHI / POOL

An Afghan child, dressed in a military uniform, salutes after offering the prayers of Eid al-Adha festival at the Eid Gah mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha by sacrificing sheep, goats, buffalos, camels and cows to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God's command. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)