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The ten-year-old Nargis was sitting quiet and alone at a corner of her school lane when I approached her. She looked sad, broken and traumatized. After a brief introduction, she opened up her heart and started speaking her story. “My mother beats me every time I make a mistake,” Nargis…

Chief Executive Abdullah and former president Hamid Karzai, slammed President Ghani after his administration officials and close supporters opposed ‘reduction in violence’ plan, which has been offered by the Taliban. In an interview with the BBC Persian, Karzai said that the government insistence on ceasefire will prevent intra-Afghan peace talks.…

“A book can shape up common imaginaries among a group of people who study a book in circle study, they can make common vocabularies which consolidate social solidarity,” says Saeeda Massud, a PhD candidate who is working on her thesis. When I first came to Afghanistan to do research on…

The Afghan government has founded a new committee to coordinate peace efforts. Chaired by Abdul Salam Rahimi, state minister for peace, the committee, titled as Senior Committee for Coordinating Peace Affairs, is tasked to direct peace related issues. The Afghan government have put many efforts to lead peace efforts since…

Findings by a parliamentary delegation that recently visited the western Farah province suggest that weapons, munitions, and equipment of Afghan security and defense forces are widely retailed in Taliban black markets, locally known as Friday markets, in different districts of the province. The province started to become insecure and subject…

We had many derams, working to make them true, Zainab, Mahmoud’s widow, says, lamenting how the brutal Afghan war killed her husband. “We got married but life did not give us chance to live a life we were dreaming,” she says. Zainab was a second year student at department of…

Representatives of the United States, European Union, NATO, and United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan have reportedly agreed on importance of a ‘reduction in violence’ with representatives of the Taliban in a meeting held last Friday, January 17, in Dubai, United Arabic Emirates, which means the Taliban will not launch…

Some Afghan film makers are lambasting at leadership of the Afghan Filmmakers Union (AFU), for what they call violation of union’s approved procedures. They claim that contrary to AFU procedure, Jawan Sher Haidari has been leading the union for more than ten years.  According to the endorsed procedure of the…

Afghan women will protest if their demands are not taken into consideration at peace negotiating table, says Masouda Karokhi, a female MP who represents Herat in the parliament. With US-Taliban peace settlement is expected to resume, women rights activists in the western Herat city voice concerns over consequences of a…

As many as seven people including four children and three women have been killedin airstrikes that targeted a commander of the Taliban breakaway faction, Mullah Nangyalai, in Shindand district of the western Herat province. This incident took palace on Wednesday, January 08. Local security officials, on condition of anonymity, told…