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Afghanistan Is Trying to Save Its Child Bombers

Afghanistan Is Trying to Save Its Child Bombers

In a room full of loud teenagers, 17-year-old Mohammad Ehsan is the quietest. (The names of the boys in this piece have been changed to protect their identities.) The other boys in this juvenile ...

Inside Mother Camp: the woman tackling Afghanistan’s drug problem

Laila Haidari risks her life to run the country’s only private rehabilitation centre, helping hundreds of addicts a year

Why is everyone cosying up to the Taliban?

From Russia and the US to the UAE, several powers and stakeholders in the Afghan conflict have started engaging with the insurgent group to secure a long lasting peace in the country.

Reports of US troop pullout catches Afghans by surprise

Neither government nor the Taliban expected Washington to act on stated intention to withdraw, expert says

Imran Khan vows Afghan peace push as Pakistan takes lead role in Abu Dhabi talks

There appears to be a shift in Islamabad, which has long been accused of harbouring the Taliban

Indian Academics Confront the Threat of Nationalistic Pseudoscience

N 1920, Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, succumbed to what was probably amoebic dysentery at the age of 32. But even though his lifespan was short, Ramanujan’s work continues to influence mathematics today — from number theory and infinite series to continued fractions — and he is just one of many influential Indian researchers whose efforts have helped to form...

The Day I Set Myself On Fire

I paid your father the bride price for you, so you have to sleep with me whenever I want,” my husband, Karim, who was several decades older than me, told me when I refused to have sex with him. Perhaps it was the dismissive laughter that followed that was the trigger, or perhaps it was...

Afghan election body invalidates vote in capital

In a shocking decision that took candidates and voters by surprise, a body charged with organising and managing Afghanistan’s election said on Thursday that fraud and mismanagement had rendered invalid the votes cast in the capital Kabul, during last October’s parliamentary election. The ruling by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) comes after it received a...

Afghanistan’s battle against warlords

Kabul was brought to a virtual standstill last week after protests broke out in the western parts of the city over the arrest of Abdul Ghani Alipoor, a Hazara militia commander. He was arrested on charges of operating illegal armed groups. Hundreds of members of the Hazara Shia minority thronged the streets of the capital,...

Kabul protesters return to the streets – to clean them

Afghans regularly take to the streets of Kabul to vent their anger but this week the capital witnessed a rare spectacle: protesters helping to clear up the mess they created. Hundreds of Shiite Hazaras demonstrated for two days in western Kabul after the arrest of a popular militia leader from the minority community. The protests...

Taliban bomb rocks Kabul as Ghani announces peace team

A Taliban bomb attack that targeted a British security firm in Kabul left at least 10 people dead and 19 wounded on Wednesday as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a UN-sponsored conference of plans to seek a peace agreement with the militant group. Najib Danish said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives and then other...
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