Phoenix?

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Here are some beautiful photos of the Kabul of today on the BBC site. Is heartening to see that there is positiveness around... Beautiful photos, especially the first one.. Isn't it, or at least wasn't it a beautiful city once? If you've been following the events in the country, am sure the photos will touch your heart somewhere... and hats off to the human spirit.. taking birth again after what all they have gone through in the past decades....

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