(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Afghan men help a man to climg inside an army truck after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds more stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, officials said Tuesday.

(AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

22/01/2010 - People shout during a protest in Qara Bagh district, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. Protesters blocked roads and chanted angry slogans against the United States and the Afghan government for a second day amid mounting anger over the killing of four people in a village by NATO forces in volatile Ghazni province.