Afghanistan News and Views

AFGHANISTAN: A ‘continual emergency’, as war drives record numbers from their homes

Jan 11, 2017

Bibi Mariam was milking her cow when it suddenly let out a wild howl and collapsed in a pool of blood. The so-called Islamic State and the Taliban...

AFGHANISTAN: In Afghanistan, Women’s Rights Still Struggle to Take Root · Global Voices

Nov 28, 2016

By Nilofer Tahiri, globalvoices.org, November 12th, 2016 ‏معاون شورای علمای کابل: زنان ناقص العقل اند. #نكته: پس تو بد بخت كه از يك #ناقص العقل به...

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan May Have to Accommodate 1.5 Million Refugees in 2016

Nov 11, 2016

Strain of new arrivals adds to government's challenges Source: Afghanistan May Have to Accommodate 1.5 Million Refugees in 2016

ON MIGRATION, AFGHANISTAN: Dying to Get to Europe | Inter Press Service

Nov 4, 2016

They are not just data or numbers for statistical calculations. They are desperate human beings fleeing wars, violence, abuse, slavery and death....

AFGHANISTAN: To be born a women to burn in hell

Oct 11, 2016

Afghanistan is the only country in the world where the rate of female suicide is higher than that of men, and in the province of Herat almost 100...

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan: Ghani, Hekmatyar sign peace deal

Oct 4, 2016

NEWS AFGHANISTAN: 29 SEPTEMBER 2016 Afghanistan: Ghani, Hekmatyar sign peace deal President Ghani inks deal with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in first peace...

AFGHANISTAN: Condoms and conflict: imams defy Taliban to spread contraception

Sep 27, 2016

Maeva Bambuck and Sedika Mojadidi in Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday 4 November 2015 05.32 EST...

AFGHANISTAN: Dirty Money in Afghanistan

Sep 12, 2016

At a money market in Kandahar Province, November 2012. AHMAD NADEEM / REUTERS foreignaffairs.com, by Javid Ahmad, Sept. 7, 2016 In 2015, the...

Afghanistan, Between India and Pakistan

Sep 7, 2016

thediplomat.com, August 19, 2016, Ajibullah Noorzai Has the time come for Pakistan to put an end to its security dilemma with India? Afghanistan, a...