Afghanistan’s youth have never known peace. Decades of war that began with the Soviets saw many children deployed to the front lines of vicious fighting. Many lost their lives, while others have survived with serious disabilities. Noor Ahmad, ...
by abdol.wahed.faramarz 3 Feb 2012 It was eight in the evening when my mobile phone started ringing. It was a friend, Nazer Hussein, who had just returned to Afghanistan after two years away working in Iran. Now he wanted ...
Rahman lost 13 members of his family, including his father, brother and uncle, when the Taliban took control of Mazar-e-Sharif. Hundreds of people were executed by Taliban fighters in Qizel Abad district, as the enacted revenge for mass ...
By Helal Ersahd Khost city – A six-month IWPR suggests that 50,000 firearms are being kept in Khost Province, whose total population was estimated at 480,000 in a 2006 survey. That’s one weapon for nearly every family in the province. ...
By Mohammad Reja Dykundi province – Ghulam Rasoul, 71, a short man with stooped shoulders came to the marketplace in the Dykundi provincial capital city of Naily to buy sugar, matches and candy. As he sat against the mud wall ...
by ahmadshah.jawad 2 Jan 2012 Residents of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province say poor coordination between foreign NGOs and local government is reducing the effectiveness of aid projects. One project that has caused particular disquiet is a new market for dried fruit ...
By Jawed Bakhtari Balkh province – One morning this past May, 21-year-old Atifa says her father, Ali Mohammad, raped her. Atifa says that her father returned from the local market in Alizai village, Balkh province, and found her home alone. ...
By Zalmay Barakhzai Ghoryan district, Herat province – Two years ago, Mohammad Reza was a 17-year-old student in Ghoryan province, spending half his days at school and the other half playing football with friends. Among those friends, he noticed, ...
Thirty years of war have left Afghanistan with more than a million dead and many more with disabilities. Three million people have fled their homes in the decades of fighting. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, ...
In the summer of 1996, the Taliban captured Herat City in western Afghanistan. They banned music and TV and closed schools and universities to women. Soon, women were not even allowed to walk in the streets without a ...
