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“They brought four dead bodies in a single day to Qala-e-Shahada mosque. One of them was my son, Sharif,” Khadim Hussain retells the devastating scene he saw eight years back. His one and only son, Sharif, who was member of the Afghan National Police, was killed in war against the…

The Afghan government has convened a three-day Consultative Loya Jirga to debate future of peace talks with the Taliban. Afghan leaders including President Ashraf Ghani, Abul Rab Sayyaf, a prominent jihadi leader, and Massom Stanikzai, the head of commission for convening of Loya Jirga, will address the assembly. Abdullah Abdullah,…

“I started my work when I was in 10th grade”, says the 24-year Maryam Sheikh who runs a small silk factory in the western Herat province. Having ten siblings, including three brothers and six sisters, Maryam is the sixth child of her family. For the time being, she is doing…

“When I stop playing during the nights, army soldiers who are stationed in nearby platoon signal with torch asking to me to play nai.”

Born in 1984 in Khoshal Khan area of Kabul, Mursal Manati has come a long way to have earned her current social status. She is serving as the head of nutrition department at the Ministry of Public Health.   With the rise of the Taliban in 1990s, her family fled…

In a spring day of 2018, Bamyan cave dwellers – sheltering in dark grottos date to 1,500 years back—of Surkh Qol village received a destiny changing and enlightening message from Momeena Payman and Husnia Sakhizada, two female volunteers who were like two dandelions for the poor local residents. They proposed…

Abdul Rashid Dostum has been awarded an honorary marshal title in an official ceremony held today, Wednesday, July 15, in the northern Jawzjan province. The ceremony was attended by Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, Shakir Kargar, President Ghani’s Chief of Staff, Babur Farahmand and…

As many as 12 Taliban militants have been killed in an attack by Afghan security forces in Pato district of Daikundi province, local sources say.   Abbas Kamyar, spokesman for Daikundi governor, told Kabul Now that Band-e-Ziarat outpost in Pato district came under an attack by the Taliban at 1:00…

“Most men do not call them by their names because they think women are nameless objects,” says Maryam Sama, an MP who represents Kabul in the Afghan parliament. “We try to include mother’s name in birth certificates,” she wrote on her Facebook account. The Afghan parliament has begun debating on…

Yassin was talking to other shopkeepers when a terrible explosion jolted Dasht-e-Barchi, a western neighbourhood of Kabul city. It soon became known that Barchi National 100 Beds Hospital had come under attack in Tank-e-Tel area of the neighborhood. Like many others, Yassin, became panic and worried. His heart sank. He…