Worldview: Afghanistan daily life

For today's installment of AP’s Worldview: Daily Life series, we focus on Afghanistan. From a woman learning to read Quran at a local madrassa in Jalalabad, to horse riders playing a "buzkashi" game during a friendly match on the outskirts of Kabul, to a shop owner reflected in a mirror inside his Burqa shop, our photographers capture everyday life in Afghanistan. 

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An Afghan laborer pauses as he works at a charcoal shop on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. In the winter, prices of wood and charcoal rise among all other necessities for Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan boy Mahfouz Bahbah, 12, stands on a roadside hoping to sell his balloons during sunset in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

An Afghan woman learns to read Quran, Islam's holy book, at a local madrassa, or seminary, in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Islamic seminaries in Afghanistan are generally considered a source of education for poor families and children whose families could not afford expensive fees of formal schools. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Sana, a 30-day-old Afghan girl, sleeps on her grandmother's lap in her home on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan man enjoys the view at sunset from a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

In this Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 photo, shop owner Chppar Abdulsattar, 42, is reflected in a mirror inside his Burqa shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Soharab Ahmed, an Afghan man holds his son Ameer Ahmed as they poses for picture inside their house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An Afghan woman walks past a bodybuilders shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghani schoolgirls play volleyball with a basketball during a break at their girls school in the old town of Kabul, Sunday, April 7, 2013. In the past twelve years many girls have returned to school in Afghanistan while under Taliban rule girls where banned from attending school. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

An Afghan child sit next to the shop of his father in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghan women beg in the street for money in the center of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Kandahar, the capital of the province with the same name, is the birthplace of the hard-line Islamic militant movement that held power in the country for five years until it was ousted in a 2001 U.S.-led invasion following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May, 30, 2012. (AP Photo/ Ahmad Jamshid)

An Afghan potter works on his pottery at his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. The potter makes about 800 Afghani ($14) per day. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Mohammed Osman, 28, center, and Mohammad Anwar, 25, throw bricks onto a truck at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Men generally work for 12 hours a day, six days a week, and make about 557.980 Afghani ($10) per day. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan horse riders play "buzkashi" game during a friendly match on the outskierts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Buzkashi is the national sport of Afghanistan, in which players fight to place a goat carcass into a circle goal. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan women walk along on the street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan woman walks with her little daughter across a cemetery in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 7, 2014. On the eve of the International Women's Day 2014, Afghanistan has been named the worst place in the world to be a woman, according to Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The National Police and Army are providing security unaided by international troops now in most of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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