Wednesday, August 26, 2009

After the August 20 - the Election day


Recently, we had the elections for presidential and provincial Shura in Afghanistan. Right before August 20th, fear and mistrust, uncertaninty, no hope for future, and doubt were among the whole population. No body believed that the election is about to happen. People did not want to go on election day and vote becaus the fear of insecurity was all over and very common. But, fortunately every thing went well and there were no major incidents in most part of the country. People voted and now are waiting to hear the final results. People have a little hope for thier future and are very optimist for a better future. This is a photo taken from a fruit market yesterday. You can see the guy selling his product. This is very common for farmers and people from the villages to bring thier products to the city to sell. Some times they them selves sell and most of the time they sell to the people whom are at the market and thier job is selling the products received from villagers with a little profit.

7 comments:

  1. Great market photo, Aref! Watermelons, tomatoes, peaches, eggplants, etc. It's always great to buy fresh produce and support the farmers! We have a farmers market this evening in Eagan. Great to hear about some return to normal and optimism in your area! What a relief that the election was not effected in Herat by violence! Blessings to you and yours from EAGAN daily photo

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  2. A little hope can make a big difference.

    And now that I know one Afghan, it makes me follow the news of the election and of the country more closely. Thanks for your blog.

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  3. I like this photo. I am enjoying learning more about your country from your blog.

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  4. Beautiful photo. I truly hope the election result does help to bring about a better future.

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  5. The photograph shows us how different your country and our country is. We are just beginning to return to local people selling farm produce as it is better for you.

    Pick a Peck of Pixels

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  6. Lovely village market photo I like the gentleman sitting on his sale table!
    I hope the election helps your country.

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  7. A very nice photo. I like the open air vendors.

    Where are you? Are you safe? (I notice you haven't posted for a while.)

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