Category: Afghanistan
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UNICEF: More Than 2.6 Million Girls in Afghanistan Deprived of Secondary Education
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that more than 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan have been deprived of secondary education over the past five years. UNICEF said in a message posted on its X page on Thursday, 26 Sunbula, that the Taliban must lift educational restrictions and provide the ground for the immediate…
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For Dawood Sarkhosh
I love Dawoud Sarkhosh; not only for his voice, but for the feeling that flows through his songs. For the fact that when he sings, poetry doesn’t just come out of his mouth; it’s as if he carries with him a part of the memory, homeland, longing, and hope of a generation. I am Tajik,…
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Lahore High Court Temporarily Halts Deportation of Afghan Medical Students
The Lahore High Court in Pakistan, through a temporary ruling, halted the implementation of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s decision to send Afghan medical students back. Judge Khalid Ishaq said on Friday, 20 Sunbula, during the hearing of the case of 13 Afghan students, that students who are undergoing medical and dental courses must…
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Some Men Laugh at Women’s Protests
In a corner of the room, miles away from the events of your country, you cover them so that perhaps your relationship with your homeland, land, and people is not erased. You receive dozens of messages, statements, protests, and videos, but the capacity to address them is beyond your ability to cover them as needed.…
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A Student’s Note; A Memory from the Last Days of University
I am someone who lived for long years in Afghanistan during the republic era; a generation that spent part of its youth and life in the atmosphere of that period and experienced freedoms such as going to school, education, attending university, movement, and personal choices. For this reason, the days approaching the fall of Kabul…
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August 15; The Day Kabul Went Silent
August 15, 2021, was a Sunday. I woke up as usual, but the news I was reading on Facebook was different from other days. News of the fall of Nangarhar and Balkh had been published, and the city’s atmosphere was gradually taking on a different color. With an uneasy mind, I headed to Kabul University.…
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From Amanullah’s Modernism to the Taliban’s Regression
28 Asad, marking the anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain in 1919, is one of the most important days in the country’s contemporary history; the day Afghanistan, during King Amanullah Khan’s era, achieved independence in its foreign policy and entered a new phase of its political history. Afghanistan’s independence was recognized after the Third Anglo-Afghan…
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Three Years Later; I Still Miss Kabul University
Three years have passed since the day I graduated from Kabul University; three years since the days when I still didn’t know that one day I would long for the simplest moments of my life. Today, when I look at the past, more than missing the classrooms and books, I miss my people; I miss…
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Nargis Nehan: Afghanistan’s Future Must Be Determined Through a Political Process That Includes Women
Nargis Nehan, women’s rights activist and former Minister of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan, described the country’s current crisis as a serious human rights and humanitarian situation and emphasized the need for a credible political process to address it. Nehan said on Wednesday, September 16 (25 Sunbula), at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan,…
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288 Musical Instruments Burned by the Taliban in Laghman
The spokesperson for the Taliban governor in Laghman Province announced that the group’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and Complaints Handling collected and destroyed 288 pieces of various musical instruments in the Qarghayi district of the province. Abdul Malik Niazi, the spokesperson for the Taliban governor in Laghman, said the…
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