An Afghan man walks at the shrine of Hazrat-i Ali ahead of “Nowruz”, the Persian New Year in Mazar-i- Sharif on March 20, 2013. Nowruz, one of the biggest festivals of the war-scarred nation, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is calculated according to a solar calendar, this coming year marking 1392. (Photo by Shah Marai/AFP Photo)
