afgahan fighters?

[paddywhack]

got this pics a few years ago for about a fiver and iv always wondered what it said on the back!! any one know what it says???any help would be great! :beer:

[paddywhack]

and the writing on the back!can any one tell me what it says? any help would be great! :beer:

[pride]

I love this pics!!

do you have others?

thanks, Emanuele

[ChrisW]

Great photo, thanks!

These guys look like Afghan or Pakistani Pushtuns. The black and white photo, and the older leather trappings, might date it to the 1970s, but it could of course be much more recent.

This photo -- young Pushtun men posing with their guns, wearing black eyeliner -- is very reminiscent of the photos in Jon Lee Anderson's very nice photobook Taliban

http://www.amazon.com/Taliban-Jon-Lee-Anderson/dp/0954264851/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261169982&sr=1-6

As for the writing on the back, it's probably Pushtu, possibly Dari. Your best bet getting it translated is to go to a pub near a Military Intelligence unit's basecamp!

[cabart13]

Translation of the writing:

From Lais Bakhsh written by Ali Samad.

v/r

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