Report

As Turkey is preparing to host a peace meeting over Afghan conflict in its western city of Istanbul, Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) works more than peace proposals, submitted by various Afghan political factions, to take a united stance in talks with the Taliban that is tentatively scheduled…

The newly appointed governor for the central Ghor province, Abdul Zahir Faizzadah, promises to curb what local officials term as growing Taliban strength in the province. The Taliban militants continue to pose threats against Ferozkoh, the capital city of Ghor province. On Thursday, April 01, the group ambushed the convoy…

Agriculture products and handicrafts made by women were displayed in the annual Almond Blossom’s Festival of Daikundi in Nili, the capital city of the province. Nearly 10,000 visitors from the neighboring provinces, mostly from Bamyan, Ghor, Ghazni, and Kabul attended the festival held on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. As the…

Last year when Jawid Gharjistani visited his jailed friend in Bamyan prison, all of a sudden, he realized that there was an enthusiastic thirst for new books in the prison: those prisoners who could read and write saw books as a hatch to escape the drilling dark time of their…

Food prices have skyrocketed in Jawand district of the western Badghis province as the Taliban have tightened grip on the district cutting all supply routes to it. Two weeks ago, a gunny of 50KG rice was sold for more than 5,000 afghanis and a gunny of 50KG flour was sold…

Afghan farmers express concerns as the country is facing a risk of predicted drought in 2021. New data suggests that Afghanistan will be facing a water shortage in coming years—that will affect a large number of the population who mostly depend on agriculture. Farmers like Sher Hossein in the central…

It was around 01:30 AM, after mid-night when army forces knocked on Hashmat’s door and then entered his house while his family members were fallen asleep in Hess-e-Awal Behsud district of Maidan Wardak province. Hashmat, who is 62 years old and a tribal elder in Seyah Buta village of the…

Hundreds of Afghan army forces are currently stationed in Hesa-e-Awal Behsud district on a ‘harsh revenge’ mission to crackdown Abdul Ghani Alipoor, a local militia commander. The forces dispatched to Behsud are equipped with heavy and light weapons, inter-alia with nearly a hundred armored Humvees. The move to arrest or…

As the valley rests under the glimmering stars, young men and women carry lighted lanterns, climb the narrow spiral staircase carved in the heart of the yellow cliff, to reach over the head of Salsal, a 55-meter tall Buddha statue, which is one of the world’s wonders. To honor this…

On March 03, residents of Herat’s Jebrael neighborhood became shocked all of a sudden after a large number of armed forces conducted an eight-hour-long military operation to arrest Habibullah Ghoryani,  a local strongman who was accused of interfering in the private business of a restaurant owner in the area. The…