For those who live close to a military base, Kabul airport or the television station, the ground shudders beneath their feet.
A hangar close to the Kabul airport is another suspected detention center.
The reconstruction of the Kabul airport starts with Soviet help.
Kabul Airport was originally built in the early 1960s by Soviet engineers.
It was seized by customs at the Kabul airport.
Portugal also sent its soldiers to Afghanistan, which controlled the Kabul airport during 2005.
By this morning only an estimated 1,000 Soviet troops remained, most of them guarding the Kabul airport.
A few Soviet soldiers are said in some accounts to remain at Kabul airport, performing guard duties.
A few minutes later the wing dipped and we began a steep, spiralling descent towards Kabul airport.
Pakistani paperwork and the uncertainties of the situation at the Kabul airport were both given unoffically as reasons for the delay.