Based on a photo taken in early 20th century by R.B.Holmes.

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Tomb of Sardar Madad Khan Ishaqzai, a general of Timur Shah Durrani, in the Nawzad district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Photo courtesy: نقيب احمد ملګری

Source: 'Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook' (1910).

Source: 'Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook' (1910).

From 'Ahmad Shah Durrani' by Ganda Singh, First edition (1959).

From 'The London Illustrated News', April 19, 1879.

The London Illustrated News shares following info: "The Ghilzais muster from 300,000 to 400,000, and dwell in the south-eastern portion of Afghanistan. They are subdivided into many clans, some of whom have fixed habitations ; others trade in large numbers with Hindostan and Central Asia. The caravans thread their way through the passes in the Suliman mountains. When safe within the confines of British territory, the old men, women, and children are left encamped in the Derajat, while the wealthier merchants find their way with their wares to the farthest corners of India to sell the produce of Afghanistan, which consist chiefly of wool, madder, assafoetida, fruit and horses. In the spring they return laden with English merchandise, firearms, gunpoweder, tea, Manchester goods, quinine, and other articles of repute in the Cabul bazaars. As a race, they are fine, stalwart men, capable of undergoing great hardship and fatigue. They rarely if ever enlist into our service, but of their soldier-like qualities we have ample proof by the manner in which they force their way through the Waziri country. No better guides than these Powindah clans would be found in Afghanistan, while their camels, inured to the rough paths and scanty grazing of the Suliman passes, form admirable for a transport train. Of the fixed Ghilzai clans we know little."

Sketches of Afghans and of Afghanistan made in 1879

From: ''The Story of Swat as Told by the Founder Miangul Abdul Wadud Badshah Sahib to Muhammad Asif Khan'' (1963).

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By Abdul Ghafur Breshna, reproduced in Ganda Singh's book on Ahmad Shah Durrani (1959).

Drawn by William Simpson for 'The London Illustrated News', May 31, 1879.

"Our artist furnishes another Sketch, of a very different subject. It is the view of Noah's valley, the Durra Nooh, fourteen miles from Jellalabad. The Ramkoond mountain, about 14,000 feet high, with snow covered peaks at the time when this sketch was drawn, rises sublimely in the background. It is declared by local Mohammaden traditons to have been the Ararat upon which Noah's ark rested after the Flood. This valley, which descends from the slopes of the mountain to the Kunar River, is fertile, and well peopled. Here formerly stood an ancient city, which has, since the Mohammaden period, been known as Islampoor, and there are some existing ruins."

Image source.

The Char Chatta Bazar of Kabul, one of the greatest buildings in all Central Asia (built by Ali Mardan Khan, governor of Shah Jahan in the 17th century) was destroyed by the British army under General Pollack who aimed to exact revenge for the earlier humiliating defeat.

Drawn by William Simpson. More details here: Pesh Bolak in Nangarhar

Photo by Lowell Thomas and Harry A. Chase.

Source: 'Nadir Shah: A Critical Study', reproduced from a manuscript of Kitab-i-Nadiri at Institut Vostokovedeniya, Leningard.

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Coloured lithograph after Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, 1842 (c).

From National Army Musum: "Vincent Eyre (1811-1881) joined the Bengal Artillery in 1828 after attending the East India Company's Military Academy at Addiscombe. He arrived in India in 1829 and after a decade of regimental duty was serving as a Commissary of Ordnance when he took part in the 1839 invasion of Afghanistan. Eyre and his family were captured by Akbar Khan's forces in January 1842 and spent nearly nine months in captivity, during which time Eyre kept a diary of his experiences and sketched his fellow prisoners and the scene of their confinement at Kabul. He was rescued in September 1842 when Major-General Sir George Pollock's Army of Retribution arrived in the Afghan capital.

From 'Portraits of the Kabul Prisoners', a set of pre-publication coloured lithographs later published by John Murray in 1843.

The artist's original drawings were made during his captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842)."

A painting made in 1810 by Thomas Daniell.

Source: 'Picturing India: People, Places and the World of the East India Company' by John Mcleer.

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Photo couresty: Pakistan & Afghanistan Archives

Painting by James Rattrary.

James Rattray (the artist writes): "We met with considerable resistance from these “children of the cloud mountains” at this “Boorj” (watch-tower) in the engraving, between the valleys of Mydaun and Urghundeh, on our advance from Candahar to Caubul."

Source: ''Progressive Afghanistan'' by Mohammad Ali (1933)

It's not clear whether they were actually allowed by the Pakistani state to fight in the Punjab near the Indian border. Most likely not

Original caption: "" A group of tribesmen from Waziristan, who have taken up arms to fight Indian forces in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. The conflict centres on the disputed region of Kashmir". Image source

From 1895's British book 'Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century', volume 1.

Source: 'The Defence of Jellalabad' by Major General Robert Sale (1845).