Sheriff explained that when the Taliban arrived in Kabul recently, he had to demolish their own statues and hide their paintings, and remembers what happened the last time they were in power. “Any expression of art is banned,” he said. “My daily routine while walking anywhere in Kabul was to see all these tapes, cassettes, …
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SHAH WALI KOT, Afghanistan — One by one, women flocked to the adobe clinic, the frames of hungry children peering out from under the folds of their pale grey, blue, and pink burqas. Many had walked for over an hour in this dull region of southern Afghanistan, where parched earth meets a pale sky, and …
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BELEK, Turkey — Anoush Dastgir may have been the hardest-working man in football, but until Saturday he had a rough job. Dastgir, the head coach of the Afghanistan men’s national team, was sitting in an empty restaurant at the hotel where he was preparing for an exhibition match against Indonesia. It was 11:00 pm and …
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More than 100 young artists, teachers and their relatives affiliated with Afghanistan National Music Institute, a famous school School leaders said the Taliban, who had been targeted in part by their efforts to promote girls’ education, fled the country on Sunday. According to school principal Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the musicians, many of whom had been …
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The Pride of the Empire To the editor: Inside Fredrik Logevall’s review Citing two books on Afghanistan (September 5), he states that “both authors paint a picture of an American war effort that, after breathtaking early success, lost its way and never recovered.” The US characterization of its post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan as a “breathtaking …
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The WHO’s regional emergency director for the Eastern Mediterranean region, Dr. “It is terrible timing for this to happen when we are currently facing a situation where human needs are heightened,” said Richard Brennan. Routine healthcare, including cesarean section, polio, tuberculosis, tetanus and measles vaccinations, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV diagnosis and treatment, childhood nutrition, surgeries and …
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Favorite TV series has been cancelled. A television station cut from a news report recounted the story of a pregnant police officer who was reportedly killed by the Taliban. A radio editor tells his colleagues to stage the anti-Taliban chants that cover the demonstrations in the capital. Afghanistan’s vibrant free press and media industry has …
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Clarissa Ward had four days to recuperate and see her two sons, aged 1 and 3, at her parents’ home in France. Then he set off again, went back to work, and went to Pakistan via Qatar, which he reported from the Afghanistan border. Ms. Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, was a broadcast reporter in …
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The system works on the assumption that people want to send an equivalent amount of money between two locations. Loans and transfers are recorded in the books, but the money does not have to change hands. These features make it useful for evading taxes, paying bribes, and laundering ill-gotten gains. Hawala was a necessity in …
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But climate change is also a threat multiplier for the Taliban. Analysts say water management will be critical to its legitimacy among Afghan citizens, and it will be one of the most important issues in the Taliban’s relations with their neighbors. Throughout history, water has been an important currency in the Afghan war zone, as …
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A group of Afghans working for The New York Times with their families landed safely early Wednesday at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport, not in New York or Washington. The arrival of 24 families was the last stop of a war. sad escape from Kabul. And Mexico’s role in rescuing journalists from The Times, …
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Haseeb Rahimi, 30-year-old Afghan entrepreneur and his younger sister, a designer, Rahiba Rahimi had big plans for 2021. Five years would be the year fashion brands adopted Laman internationally. They have already organized a podium event at the American embassy in Kabul, equipping the contestants for “.Afghan Star” (a local version of “American Idol”) and …
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