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“Love, madness and art are offspring of a single soul,” says Latif Eshraq, who has dedicated his life to painting. Born in 1972, in a little beautiful green oblong valley enfolded by mountains in the southeastern historic province of Ghazni, Latif Eshraq describes his childhood as a paradise lost behind…

“It has been twenty years since Hedayat is gone. He left me alone with five children”, says the 48-year-old Laili. Tall and strong, she is one of the many Afghan women who has lost her husband during Afghan civil war. In a sunny fall day, Ms. Laili allowed me to…

This story has been developed by Jessica Purkiss and published with partnership by Etilaat Roz and Daily Beast. Leaked documents have unmasked senior Afghan officials and their families as recent owners of luxury offshore property in Dubai, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.  Included in the documents seen by…

The 75-year-old Abdul Hussain, who has been suffering from severe rheumatic diseases, is a longtime unemployed. Living in a mud-house in slum neighborhood of Barchi, Kabul, Hussain carries the heavy burden of a household—his spouse with two young children, a four-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son. Every dawn he leaves…

Mr. Wee Tech Young is a 50-year-old Singaporean aid worker who runs a non-profit organization in Kabul. Wee is a peace activist who believes the Afghans need peace more than anything else. Wee Tech Young, a 50-year-old Singaporean aid worker, comes to his Kabul-based office, every working day, to promote…

Lailuma Khaliqyar, who is a female principal in an all-girl high school in northern Parvan province, has come a long way to change locals’ attitudes toward her job.   Almost all students of Um-Salma High School in the northern Parvan province were least enthusiastic to continue and graduate high school…

Thousands of children around Afghanistan are trapped in child laboring, and they are deprived of health service, and education. As the sun rises, the seven-year-old Hamid along with his brother Mirvais, who is ten, take a long walk all the way from a slum to diplomatic neighborhood of Wazir Akbar…

Now 22, Nargis Taraki campaigns for women’s empowerment and education in her home country. She is one the BBC’s 2018 100 women. Nargis loves novel. Virginia Wolf and Oriana Fallaci are her favorite writers.

Amid war and violence, attending school remains a yet-unfulfilled dream for a large number of Afghan girls. Thousands of young Afghan girls in southern Helmand province are out of school. Schools are closed down in 13 districts of the province, and just a small number of girls in Lashkargah, the…

After school graduation in 2010, one of many wishes, Weki and Raj, two Afghan Sikh siblings, had was to attend university and get higher education. But their dreams never turned into reality in Afghanistan, a country where Sikh community is discriminated by majority of hardcore Muslims. Currently, not even a…