There are no mourners to remember the Taliban, Arab and Pakistani fighters buried at the graveyard in the forgotten, dusty plains of Tarakhel.
Anonymous slabs of cold slate numbered with strokes of red paint rise up from the mounds of 56 newly dug graves. For days Juma Gul, the toothless, wiry gravedigger, has been burying the bodies of Taliban troops killed in the American military strikes and the battle for Kabul.
"Two were old men, the rest were young. They came here to fight a jihad and it was good to come. The policies of their leaders are not our concern," said Mr Gul.
"The Taliban were following the way of the prophet and this is what we wanted. They were not tyrants." Most of the men buried here in the past week were Pakistanis, their bodies collected from the battlefield north of Kabul by the Red Cross.
Under Afghan tradition the bodies lie in the parched soil in a state of temporary burial, waiting to be collected and taken home by relatives. But only one father, a man from Qalat in the southern Pashtun heartland, has come to collect his son. For most others the battlefields of Afghanistan were far from their homes.
Nearby more than 200 other graves, whose stony soil has dried and cracked, hold the bodies of men killed in the past five years of fighting as the Taliban's military machine swept through Afghanistan.
Among them are the graves of two young men from Britain, members of the feared Pakistani militants, Harakat ul-Ansar, who fought alongside the Taliban and their Arab allies.
At the head of the gravestone of Afraisab Ilyas is carved the word "shaheed", or martyr. His father, Mian Mohammad Ilyas, came from the Pakistani city of Gujarat. The young man was from London, the gravestone says. He died in Kunduz on July 8th, 1998.
A few rows away lies Arshad Mahmood, who took the name "Sama" for his holy war in Afghanistan. Another fighter with Harakat ul-Ansar, Arshad's father was from Jhelum in the Punjab but the youngster travelled from "Britannia" to fight. He died on the Shomali plains, north of Kabul, on July 15th, 1998.