Photo: GARDEZ, Feb 9, 2010

GARDEZ, Feb 9, 2010: An elderly man with a white turban happily looks at the camera while shifting a burden of firewood that he had collected from a nearby mountain as to use it for warming his home here in Merzaka district of southeastern Paktia province. The incessant snowfalls in various provinces of Afghanis had claimed lives of large number of people and forced residents to collect firewood from mountains. PAJHWOK/Lemar Niazai