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The 13-year-old Hosna, who has been hospitalized for weeks in Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, is waiting to receive call from her parents and siblings, not knowing that she is the only member of her family who has survived the deadly Parwan flood. Hosna, according to doctors, has serious injuries in…

“I was the only female medical doctor at Faizabad state-run-hospital, where just four beds were allocated for female patients,” says Wakila Karim, who has dedicated her career to serve the underdeveloped mountainous Badakhshan province. When I was a child, Ms. Karim, 55, says, I saw many mothers losing their lives…

“My gender has put me at risk of continuous harassment; people make me their subject of mockery. To avoid being harassed, I have been taking medicines to shrink the size of breasts,” says the 64-year-old Saboor, who is an intersex. Life for an intersex is not easy in the conservative…

A number of Afghan students, who have been sent to India on government-funded scholarships, claim they have been enrolled in unaccredited institutions which are not registered with the provincial government of India. The students who were sent to India in early years of the National Unity Government – formed in…

A woman, in burqa, rushed towards me as she noticed my presence before the half-opened gate of her mud-walled house in the flood-hit area of Parwan. “My name is Suhaila and I have an 11-year-old daughter,” she told me as she revealed her face. The 35-year-old Suhaila asked me to…

“Now, I see some persons with disabilities who can walk while before they even could not stand on their feet. I’m happy and it brings me comfort,” says Doctor Mallang, caretaker of the home care team of the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) in Kabul. According to him, providing home…

A group of nine Afghan mountaineers climbed over Badakhshan’s Nawshakh mountain for the first time in history, without support from foreign organization. From Kabul, the group first moved to Qazideh village of Wakhan district, and after a three-week-climbing, they reached the peak at 07:00 PM, on August 06, conquering the…

“The government must not compromise blood of our loved ones. We call on the government to sentence perpetrators of civilian casualties to death,” says Fatima who lost her father and brothers in Afghan war. Gravely concerned about a possible return of the released militants to battlefield, she strongly opposes release…

“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,…