Identification Cards

identification cards: During protracted wars in the 1980s and '90s, the government didn't have a system in place to register births. Because identification cards and driver's licences weren't standard in this impoverished nation, families saw no reason to record the exact dates. Government paperwork asked only for an approximate birthday on the Islamic calendar. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "Those of us who don't know when we were born selected Jan. 1," said a U.S. Army interpreter named Tariq, who first wrote the date on his job application with the military and would repeat it when he applied for a visa, and whenever anyone asked. "It was very easy to remember." KABUL The first day of January isn't celebrated as the beginning of the year in Afghanistan, but since the American invasion, it's become a new kind of holiday a de facto birthday for thousands of Afghans who don't know when they were born. But when the United States and its NATO allies arrived, they brought with them a flurry of job opportunities, visa applications and websites that all required a specific birthday on the Roman calendar. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.