Re: Afghanistan’s history in Pictures
The above picture seems to be mistakenly labelled as from Kabul. However, I would share my personal experience over here. In 2005, I came across an Afghani Website where pictures of following buildings of Lahore, Pakistan had been portrayed as buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan;
1. Lahore Museum Entrance (as above)
Chemical Pathology Department of The Punjab Univeristy
The Zamzama Cannon in front of Lahore Museum
Old Inter Continental Hotel (now Pearl Continental) Lahore.
When I notified those gross blunders to the website holders via e-mail, the whole lot of pictures along with others were removed. After a few days I received an e-mail of thanks by the website, in which it was claimed that those pictures were from the personal collection of father-in-law of the person running the website and he did not have the full knowledge of all the pictures.
There are still many blogs, websites and articles about Afghanistan and Afghanis, where historical facts are distorted, old pictures from other places are displayed as from Afghanistan and important personalities of Persian, Turkish, Uzbek, Tajik and Turkomen descent are vaingloriously personified as Afghanis.
After you mentioned it, I enlarged picture and found ‘Ajaib Ghar’ written on front of the building and definitely its Lahore not Afghanistan.
Another example of distorting history by Afghanis. The actual mausoleum of Hazrat Ali (KAW) is in Najaf, Iraq. This mazar probably belongs to some saint having a name Hazrat Ali, but not Hazrat Ali Bin Abi Talib (KAW). In Afghanistan, it is a common to find names like Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Akbar, Hazrat Ibrahim etc. The Persian speaking Hazaras and other Shias of Afghanistan, gradually mistook this mausoleum of saint Hazrat Ali with Hazrat Ali Bin Abi Talib (KAW).
There are many myths surrounding tomb of Hazrat Ali (RA) and even burial place of head of Hazrat Hussain. Considering such myths, we can expect different tombs across the region.