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Various of Kabul city shots  2. Medium shot of an Afghan man talking on the phone  3. Close up of three mobile sets being held  4. Medium shot of Afghans walking in busy downtown Kabul  5. Close of man...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKabul - February 26, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Kabul city shots  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium shot of an Afghan man talking on the phone  \u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of three mobile sets being held  \u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of Afghans walking in busy downtown Kabul  \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of man talking on the phone \u003cbr/\u003eKabul - February 25, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e6. Medium shot of Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan showing his iPhone  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of Zaeef holding iPhone  \u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot of Zaeef talking about his iPhone\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of Zaeef using his iphone  \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English): Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is working like a telephone also I am using the internet with that. Sometimes I use the GPS to look for the map, locations in Afghanistan and also other facilities on iphone, it is more than other telephone and easy and modern this was the reason I love it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of Zaeef holding iPhone  \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English): Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Mostly Taliban they are using the technology, if you look to the video of the Taliban coming to the CD it is very professional, it is not easy for some people to be not educated to know about or to make it like that. That means they are using that the new technology.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up of Zaeef showing the Apple sign on the back of the iPhone  \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English): Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan: \u003cbr/\u003e\"They (Taliban) are making the bomb and putting somewhere and giving electricity to that to explode. Especially they have a progress with Americans when they are trying to discover something in the Taliban they are changing the way and more casualties and stronger and more modern. I think the American and Canadian become crazy about that, they are not able to defense (defend) from them. That means they are using new technology.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKabul - February 26, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot of the interior of Kabul's only modern shopping mall (Kabul city centre shopping mall)  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium shot of elevators going up and down  \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot of Afghans walking in shopping mall  \u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium shot of man and a woman in blue burqa entering a shop  \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of electronics shop selling mobile sets, computers and other electronic supplies  \u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of shopkeeper Hashim Balkhi behind the counter in the shop  \u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up of Balkhi operating an iPhone  \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of iphone sets in the shop  \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (Dari): Hashim Balkhi, shopkeeper: \"The country is progressing, seven years ago a few number of people were using mobile phones, but now even if someone can not afford it he uses a mobile phone.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (Dari): Reza Mohammad, shopkeeper: \"An eight GB (gigabyte) iPhone is around 750$, so most of our people can not financially afford to use an iPhone.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Medium shot of shopkeeper in his shop seen through counter pane  \u003cbr/\u003e26. Medium shot of mobile sets on display in shop \u003cbr/\u003eEight years ago Afghanistan had only a few hundred cell phone users, mostly members of the Taliban government. \u003cbr/\u003eToday it has more than 8 million, meaning roughly one in four people uses a mobile phone, according to government figures.\u003cbr/\u003eIt means that many things that were strictly outlawed by Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar - music, movies, games like chess - are now at people's finger tips.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ultra-conservative Taliban banned modern technology like the Internet and TV during its harsh 1996-2001 rule. \u003cbr/\u003eSince 2001, when the Taliban regime was ousted from power, those items have boomed in Afghanistan helping to bring the country into the 21st century.\u003cbr/\u003eMullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef is a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan. \u003cbr/\u003eHe spent almost four years in Guantanamo. \u003cbr/\u003eHe wears a black turban, has a thick beard - and is never without his Apple iPhone.\u003cbr/\u003eZaeef, now reconciled with the Afghan government after being released from U.S. custody, says he uses his iPhone to surf the Internet and find difficult locations, employing the built-in GPS. \u003cbr/\u003eZaeef says he uses it as a phone, for the internet, even for checking his bank account balance online. \u003cbr/\u003eHe also uses the GPS (global positioning system) function to check locations saying \"it's easy and modern and I love it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eZaeef has always been interested in technology. \u003cbr/\u003eHe used a laptop and satellite phone to access the Internet in the late 1990s, and now he surfs the Web an hour a day. \u003cbr/\u003eZaeef says that the Taliban itself embraces technology - for more harmful pursuits. \u003cbr/\u003eMilitants use remote control devices to set off roadside bombs, and they produce high-quality videos of attacks that they post on militant Web sites.\u003cbr/\u003eZaeef says this is causing problems for NATO-led and coalition troops fighting a resurgent Taliban insurgency. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban movement is highly fractured and is essentially a loose knitting of commanders who wield ultimate authority in their regions. \u003cbr/\u003eAs a result, some commanders have relaxed strict social rules against technology and now allow TVs and music. \u003cbr/\u003eOthers have ripped down satellites from  homes and thrown out TVs from village barber shops and tea houses.\u003cbr/\u003eBut that has not stopped the demand for gadgets. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Afghan capital has one gleaming mall, with glass elevators and escalators and a rare European-style coffee shop. \u003cbr/\u003eElectronic stores stocked with GPS units, Sony PlayStations, flat screen TVs and iPods fill the shopping centre.\u003cbr/\u003eShopkeeper Hashim Balkhi says that everyone uses mobile phones these days even if they can not afford it. \u003cbr/\u003eThe nation's leading mobile phone company, Roshan, added 1 million 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