Every day before dawn, Jamil Ghafori gets to work on the floor of a cramped Kabul bakery with five other men churning out ...

"We always try to provide good bread for people, our customers must be satisfied," he said in the north of the Afghan capital. Piles of bread -- some round, some stretched into canoe-like shapes ...

The common bread Ghafori has made for 27 years is fluffy with a satisfying crunchy edge, where each piece has been slapped onto the wall of an earthen oven sunk into the floor. Afghan envoy calls ...

Afghans rely on bread, he told AFP. So he and his colleagues, each in charge of one part of the five-step process, take pride in their work. An Afghan burqa-clad woman (C) buying traditional ...