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#Afghan Hindu Sikhs#Afghanistan#Features#ISIS#Taliban

Here’s Why Sikh and Hindu Minorities are Leaving Afghanistan

02/09/202009/10/2020

Since he was a child, 60-year-old Nidan Singh Sachdeva has never missed a single Saavan mela, an annual religious gathering celebrated by the Sikh community in Afghanistan’s Paktya province to mark the monsoon season. The dry mountainous terrains of Afghanistan […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Features#Peace Process#Taliban#Women

‘Peace where rights aren’t trampled’: Afghan women’s demands ahead of Taliban talks

13/08/202014/08/2020

Farahnaz Forotan was three when the Taliban had arrived in Kabul. It was 1996. “I have this memory of a snowy day, I was sitting on my mother’s lap, in a minibus, and she was crying. I didn’t understand why she was […]

#Addiction#Afghanistan#Drugs#Features#Kabul

In Afghanistan, a Drug Sparks Hope — and Charges of Quackery

10/08/202014/08/2020

LAM GUL ALAM’S symptoms had been steadily worsening for weeks when he decided to visit an herbalist named Haji Mohammad Alkozai. The 30-year-old civil servant from Kabul had intently watched a video clip making the rounds on Afghan social media, in which […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Features#Kabul#Peace Process#Profile#Taliban#Women

Afghanistan’s Gen Z Is Fighting Back

27/07/202014/08/2020

KABUL, Afghanistan—There were few things that scared Fatima Khalil, a 24-year-old human rights activist who torpedoed her way across an increasingly volatile and patriarchal landscape of Afghanistan. One of them, Lima Ahmad, her older sister, told me in July, was […]

#Afghanistan#Children#Conflict#Features#Latest#Mental Health

Afghan Doctors Cultivate a Grim Specialty: War Wounds in Babies – Undark

22/06/202002/07/2020

Kabul’s pediatric surgeons face a perverse challenge in determining the best way to treat newborns for war wounds.

#Afghan Food#Afghanistan#Conflict#Coronavirus#Economy#Features#Kabul#Women

Street snacks to sanitiser: the Afghan women fighting coronavirus in Kabul – The Guardian

10/06/202002/07/2020

Freshta had spent months building up a franchise business to help to feed her family – and break a few taboos on women at the same time – when coronavirus hit Afghanistan. In November, the engineering student, (who has asked to […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Daesh#Features#ISIS#Peace Process#Refugees#Taliban

Join the Taliban or Isis?’: Afghan deportees forced to join insurgent groups see hope in peace deal – The National

06/06/202002/07/2020

When Aziz Amir was deported from the UK back to his native Afghanistan in 2011, he faced a choice: defy the Taliban and risk being murdered, or join them. Mr Amir, not his real name, chose the latter, not just […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Daesh#Features#India#ISIS#Kabul#Latest

From Kerala to Kabul prison: widow of Indian ISIS fighter tells her tale – The National

24/05/202026/05/2020

Sitting in a dimly lit cell, Mariyam described her journey from growing up as a Catholic in the south Indian state of Kerala to languishing in an Afghan prison as a member of the ISIS affiliate known as Islamic State […]

#Afghan Food#Afghanistan#Features#Food#Kabul#Latest#Taliban

The Ultimate Comfort Food of Afghanistan Is Served From a Teapot – Heated

07/05/202026/05/2020

There is a certain method to having the chainaki, a wholesome meat soup made in a teapot, called “chainak” in the Afghan language of Dari. First, you take the large naan that comes with every serving and break into tiny […]

#Afghanistan#Conflict#Coronavirus#Features#Herat#Latest#Mental Health#Taliban#Violence Against Women#Women

Domestic abuse: ‘Women in Herat may survive coronavirus but not lockdown’ – The Guardian

21/04/202026/05/2020

Every morning Marzia Akbari, a 25-year-old psychologist from the western Afghan city of Herat, wakes up, picks up her phone and starts calling women. Most calls go unanswered. Since Herat was put in lockdown two weeks ago, Akbari’s work as […]

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