Restoring Kabul's lost beauty

War, tyranny and Soviet-inspired urban planning have all left their mark on the Afghan capital. The worst period was during the 1990s when the historic heart of the city, which Saib-e-Tabrizi wrote his love song for, became a battleground for competing factions of Mujahideen. The mud-brick walls of mansions, courtyards and mosques were no match for the bombs.