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“I love Zahra a lot,” says Naveed Ahmadi, who fell in love with Zahra Saifey, an English teacher. Naveed, an ethnic Tajik from Kabul, says his love affairs with Zahra, who is a Shia Hazara, made him feel that he was no longer alone.  The love journey, which marked in…

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…

She could not have imagined that one day she would become a famous medical doctor and a renowned rights activist when in a sunny April day her father took her on rear rack of his Indian bicycle to enroll her in a primary school. “My father took me to the…

“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…