Kabul in 3 minutes

 

Kabul is one of the highest capitals in the world located  between the Mighty Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. The city covers an area size of 275 square kilometres , making it by far the largest in  Afghanistan. With the population of more than 4.4 million , 

Kabul has a cold semi-arid climate. Temperatures are cool compared to much of Southwest Asia, Summer has very low humidity .Autumn features warm afternoons and sharply cooler evenings. Winters are cold, with exclusive snowfalls.Spring is the wettest time of the year. Sunny conditions dominate year-round. 

 The city is said to be over 3,500 years old. it is in a strategic location along the trade routes of South and Central Asia, and a key location of the ancient Silk Road. The old part of Kabul is filled with bazaars nestled along its narrow, crooked streets. Immediately to the south of the old city are the ancient city walls and the Sher Darwaza mountain, with the Shuhadayi Salihin cemetery behind it. A bit further east is the ancient Bala Hissar fortress with the Kol-e Hasmat Khan lake behind it. The Kabul River flows through the heart of the city, dividing the central bazaars. 

Kabul is known for its gardens, bazaars, and palaces, well known examples being the Gardens of Babur and Darul_Aman_Palace. Other notable places are the Bagh-e_Bala_Palace ,Id Gah Mosque  and  Shah-Do Shamshira . 

The city has experienced rapid urbanization with an increasing population. Since the late 2000s, numerous modern housing complexes have been built. Kabul  is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Kabul has no train service. However a nationwide bus service is available from Kabul,  Kabul International Airport is one of the nation's main international airports and capable of housing over one hundred aircrafts.

About 68% of the city's population follow Sunni Islam while 30% are Shiites. The remaining 2% are followers of Sikhism and Hinduism.

The Dari (Persian) and Pashto languages are widely used in the region 

Naan  is the most widely consumed bread in Afghanistan and  most widely used meat is lamb. Meat is mostly consumed with Naan ,in form of various varieties of Qorma and Kebab.

Kabuli palaw is considered a festive and important dish due to the price and quality of the ingredients as well as its tradition of being Afghanistan's national cuisine. It consists of steamed rice mixed with raisins, carrots, and beef or lamb. 

Cricket is the dominant sport in Kabul with 2 of the 3 sports stadiums reserved for cricket. 

Kabul's main products include fresh and dried fruit, nuts, beverages, Afghan rugs, leather and sheep skin products, furniture, antique replicas, and domestic clothes. Each year about 20,000 foreign tourists visit Afghanistan.

Kabul in 3 minutes | capital of Afghanistan | Kabul City

by Zaheeruddin Babar

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The Absurd

Once stripped of its common romanticism, the Physical world is a foreign, strange, silent, cold and inhuman place; true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world: their stories ultimately end in meaningless abstractions, in metaphors. 

 

Universe seems purposeless, meaningless, chaotic, and irrational.  Life has no intrinsic meaning or value. With respect to the universe, a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, and without any purpose. When one considers the short span of his life absorbed into the preceding and subsequent eternity, the small space which he fills and even can see, swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which he knows nothing and which knows nothing of him.

There are moments when individuals question whether their lives have meaning, purpose, or value, and are negatively impacted by the contemplation. It may be commonly, but not necessarily, tied to depression or inevitably negative speculations on purpose in life e.g., "if one day I will be forgotten, what is the point of all of my work?"

This crisis may often be provoked by a significant event in the person's life—psychological trauma, marriage, separation, major loss, the death of a loved one, a life-threatening experience, a new love partner, psychoactive drug use, adult children leaving home, reaching a personally significant age (turning 18, turning 40, etc.), etc. Usually, it provokes the sufferer's introspection about personal mortality.

We build our life on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow bring us closer to death and are the ultimate enemy; people live their lives as if they were not aware of the certainty of death.

How we come to terms with the social world. Human beings like to insist that there are reasons why things happen. The death of a child, the crash of an airplane, or a random shooting must be explained in terms of the workings of a hidden plan.  

The social world appears to us as it ought not to be and the world as it ought to be does not exist. It is a condition of tension, as a disproportion between what we want or need and how the world appears to operate." When we find out that the world does not possess the thing we want or need. But long since believed it to have, we find ourselves in a crisis.

There are no higher truths that man can discover about life. In the face of such uncertainty, there is no basis for morality or justification for acting one way as opposed to another. 'Everything is permitted,'... is not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgement of a fact." A person gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning. This explains all that the unreasonable world .

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously. When the “appetite for the absolute and for unity" meets "the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle."

The Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe.

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