| Along with the afghani, Kabulis use U.S. dollars and Pakistani rupees to buy groceries. |
| The casual repressiveness of these images, the one frightening, the other poignant, itself seems sewn into the very fabric of Afghani society. |
| An ill-timed suggestion by an IMF official visiting Kabul at the end of January that the country could do worse than to adopt the dollar temporarily as its official currency severely weakened the afghani. |
| The printing of new afghani banknotes has been stopped, at least for the present. The heroes of the currency whirlwind are the traders, calmly sipping sweet green tea as they manage the afghani's dizzying fluctuations. |
| Who are some great Afghani writers that your readers should know about, but who are not so well known abroad? |
| When the Taliban abandoned the capital in November, the afghani strengthened to 23,000 to the dollar. |
