I didn’t expect to see no asphalt in the streets and extremely destroyed roads in Kabul
I really did not expect to see dirt road in the Kabul streets. I already noticed that when the airplane was reducing the altitude, I thought he, why is it muddy! Nevertheless when I came out of the airport, I saw it better. If it was rain or snow, all the streets would turn to large muddy roads. If it was dry, dust in the air would limit your eye vision to couple of meters. I have to say that I was consciously trying to not be bothered, but once Hashem who was driving me, said: “it looks that dead dust is covered the city”! it was some hint of truth in what he said.
When I think about it, I wonder why I expected to see a better situation. Is it because of my reference is Iran (and in comparison there is much more developed! There is infrastructure there)! Or did I underestimated the three decays of war here? Any how i expected that at least the capital city has been a little repaired after the Taliban, wih all these money which came in!
"Bazar"
"A street in the center of city"
Any how I am still puzzled, why nobody takes care of the roads in the Kabul? This would make such a big change in the appearance of the city and give such a hope to the people that some thing is changing. Would make people motivated, so many reason for spending the money to build the roads. The theory of some Afghans was: “they do not want to make the roads, they do not want to do any thing for people, they all have come here to use the chance and have a good business for themselves.” Always it come the word of “They”, it is a dual feeling, in one side I think what is this “they”, why not “we”? Why should “we” not doing something and wait for “they”! General problem of our region? Waiting for the others?! But, maybe here the situation is different, 30 years of war left the country with no infrastructure, no experts, no educations, etc. can’t be any way of building the streets?
I heard it has been different attempts, but the problem is corruption, etc… 
"This one was one of the good streets!"
"One of the worst ones!"
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American contractors are paving the highways they need for pipeline construction though. I just had dinner with one of the paving contractors for Halliburton the other night. You can Google it and see what they're doing.
"This one was one was a good ones"
As a journalist publishing in English, you should know the basic rules of English grammar!
You should also expect that buildings and streets in Kabul are not yet rebuilt. Also you should not focus on superficial issues that Afghans do not worry about, because they have more serious problems to solve!
Sincerely
A colleague
It is a shame to make grammar mistakes! I agree! Thanks for showing the mistake I changed it.
However, I'm not journalist; here I just share my observations with who like to read. It is nothing serious!!!
And since I was not a journalist and I were interested in people and actually spend some times with them , I heard few times every day all the complains about the roads, not having asphalt and frustrations of it! Maybe could you give a suggestion what is the most important issues there beside of infrastructure and security?
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