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Can Good Saffron Change Lives? Mohammad Salehi Thinks So.

22/06/202123/06/2021

It is a warm spring afternoon in Herat Province in western Afghanistan. The winter was unseasonably short, and Mohammad Salehi is concerned that might have affected the sun-loving crops. Salehi closely inspects each deep-orange strand in the palm of his hand. […]

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‘I am not afraid to fight’: the female Afghan colonel who survived the Taliban’s assassins

24/12/202010/02/2021

It was just after 7am when the car carrying Colonel Saba Sahar, one of Afghanistan’s most senior female police officers, came under fire from armed insurgents. In the back seat, Sahar’s four-year-old daughter began screaming as bullets shattered the windscreen […]

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The woman convincing the Afghan Taliban to give up arms

15/11/202010/02/2021

Three years ago, Salima Mazari knew very little about the violence that has plagued her country for decades. Born and raised as a refugee in Iran, she was sheltered from the worst of the conflict, despite enduring other hardships familiar […]

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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 […]

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Death of a doctor who turned ‘deserts into gardens’- The Hindu

21/12/201915/04/2020

Few other foreign nationals have perhaps received as much love and admiration from the Afghans as Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who dedicated his life to improving healthcare, water availability and agriculture in Afghanistan over the last four decades. Affectionately referred to […]

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Dressing Afghanistan: young designers get creative in Kabul – The Guardian

25/10/201915/04/2020

There’s a steady stream of customers coming through the doors of Rahiba Rahimi’s fashion studio. The 25-year-old’s bold, intricate designs are fitted on mannequins and hung on rails around her showroom in Kabul. Rahimi is the lead designer and co-proprietor […]

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A Very Happy Viral Video With A Sad Back Story

10/05/201931/01/2020

It’s hard to imagine a happier face. But it’s a bittersweet story. A joyful video of a 5-year-old Afghan boy, Sayeed Rehman, has gone viral. He had just been fitted with a new prosthetic leg, and he couldn’t stop dancing […]

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Afghan boy dances for joy with new prosthetic leg

08/05/201918/05/2019

Five-year-old Sayeed Rehman does not know what resilience means, a word used several times over the last few days to describe him. The young Afghan is just happy that he can dance again with his new prosthetic leg, one of […]

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‘We Belong to Afghanistan’

06/07/201831/10/2018

Rawail Singh believed in a peaceful future for Sikhs like him in his homeland — and died for it.

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Photos of woman graduating from college go viral and inspire a beleaguered nation

02/06/201831/10/2018

Breshna Musazai took three bullets and nearly died when terrorists attacked her university two years ago. Last month, she received her degree — an achievement that’s inspired multitudes

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