Photo Credit:
Altaf Qadri
 
Photo Caption:
An Afghan boy is silhouetted as he climbs down from the diving board of an unfinished Soviet-era swimming pool as the sunsets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.  
 
Photographer's Note:
“Violence, death and destruction is a part of life for Afghans. Damaged buildings, bunkers and gunmen with sophisticated weapons have been their landscape. If one somehow manages to stretch the imagination and remove all these, then what remains is a very beautiful country with amazingly hospitable people.”