Stories from South Asia
It was a chilly Friday afternoon when an extended roar of more than two dozen motorbikes pierced the silence in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province. To an outsider, the sudden invasion earlier this month by a large group of men on […]
At least 47 people were killed when a large explosion tore through a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers. Over 70 people are wounded, a Taliban official said. A suicide bomber detonated his vest […]
On the eve of Eid Al Adha, as Afghanistan was preparing to celebrate the feast of sacrifice, Fida Mohammad’s Afghan’s life was instead turned upside down and struck by tragedy. His sons, Sher Mohammad, 34, and Mahmoud Khan, 37, were […]
LAST MONTH, Ajmal Omari found himself stuck in a taxi, waiting at one of the many Taliban checkpoints that have proliferated across Afghanistan over the past year. Omari, a 34-year-old journalist, was traveling with his father, who was weak and breathless […]
Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist with Reuters, was embedded with the Afghan forces. On Friday, July 16, he was reporting from Spin Boldak in Kandahar province when Taliban fighters ambushed him as well as Sediq Karzai, an Afghan special forces commander. […]
A baby wounded in a shooting that killed his mother in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city has a 50 per cent chance of survival, doctors told The National. The baby’s father, Assadullah, chief of criminal investigations with the police, said the attack happened […]
Forty-year-old Bismillah woke up last week to find Taliban fighters patrolling the streets of his village in Arghandab district of Kandahar province in Afghanistan. “We don’t know how they captured the checkpoints but the Taliban were blocking the roads to […]
About a year ago, Tahir Khan, then 17, from the southern Afghan province of Helmand, joined a caravan of about 80 countrymen and marched over 700 km to Kabul. Their clarion call was: “End the war in Afghanistan.” The group of […]
Heavy rains in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar triggered flash floods that killed more than 20 people. The UN reported that the dead included children whose homes collapsed or who were swept away. Ten people were reported missing. Kandahar […]
Afghanistan concluded its much-delayed parliamentary election on October 27, amid insurgent attacks and logistical delays. More than 2,500 candidates were in the fray for 249 seats in Parliament. The final polling was held in the southern province of Kandahar, which saw […]