Jon,
I saw this blog post from a war correspondent who has extensively covered Afganistan. Apparently there have long been rumoursof very large cats in Kandahar province of Afganistan, which the locals usually laughed off as mere supposition.However, when the US soldiery started seeing these cats on night vision and even thermal imaging kit (the US Army has some quite incredible technology these days) they were taken seriously. Here are photos of one such cat.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/afcats-wild-cats-of-afghanistan.htm
I saw this blog post from a war correspondent who has extensively covered Afganistan. Apparently there have long been rumoursof very large cats in Kandahar province of Afganistan, which the locals usually laughed off as mere supposition.However, when the US soldiery started seeing these cats on night vision and even thermal imaging kit (the US Army has some quite incredible technology these days) they were taken seriously. Here are photos of one such cat.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/afcats-wild-cats-of-afghanistan.htm
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sadly there is no scale given.
According to Wikipedia, the following species of felid live in Afghanistan (although I would question the lion):
Genus: Acinonyx
Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus VU
Genus: CaracalCaracal Caracal caracal LC
Genus: Felis
Jungle Cat Felis chaus LC
Genus: Lynx
Eurasian Lynx Lynx lynx NT
Genus: Prionailurus
Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis LC
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Lion Panthera leo VU
Genus: Uncia
Snow Leopard Uncia uncia EN 
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