Expression oh so hauntingPiercing eyes which boreSharbat Gula Afghan1984 Sharbat Gula became Afghanistan’s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her face in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border in the 1980s. This picture which later went on to become a symbolic image was published on the front cover of the National GeographicContinue reading “Afghanistan 1984”
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Disgusting Tragedy
This one has no humourDisgusting tragedyPhotograph explains itScroll down and you’ll see…. Don MatthewsOctober 2021
Top-Secret Rescue Mission of Afghan Orphans
I’m stunned by how attractiveThese Afghan orphans areRescued from the TalibanBound for somewhere far Australia Top-secret rescue missionTo Pakistan they fledNow waiting in IslamabadIf not they could be dead Don MatthewsSeptember 2021
Left in the Sewer….Literally
I’m trying to reach the airportVia this canal I wadeKnee-deep in stinking sewageNo paperwork, hopes fade It is a canal for sewage not just water as said in the caption. Troops just look on and ignoreWithout papers most are turned away Don MatthewsAugust 2021
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 