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Afghan women chase medical dreams in Scotland

20 Sep 2024

When the Taliban banned women from attending university in Afghanistan, Zahra Hussaini thought her dream of becoming a doctor was over. Now, she is continuing her medical degree in...

UAE expresses solidarity with flood-hit Afghans

12 May 2024

The UAE conveyed its sincere condolences and expressed its solidarity with the friendly people of Afghanistan over victims of floods in several areas of Baghlan province in northeastern Afghanistan,...

France-based satellite TV channel beams respite into Afghan homes

20 Mar 2024

In a tiny television studio in the French capital, two unveiled Afghan women face the camera on a mission to provide a lifeline to their fellow countrywomen back home....

Pakistan exempts Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement to US from deportation

05 Nov 2023

Tariq Butt / Agencies The government has ordered authorities not to arrest Afghans who are waiting to be relocated to the United States, as it wages a crackdown on...

More than 165,000 Afghans flee Pakistan after deportation order

02 Nov 2023

Torkham: More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since its government ordered 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on Thursday....

Banned from education, 'idle' teen girls are married off in Afghanistan

12 Nov 2022

Thirteen-year-old Zainab should have been shopping for a new school uniform this autumn but, with no prospect of girls' schools reopening in Afghanistan, she was instead forced to pick...

US troop pullout was key factor in Afghan collapse: Watchdog

18 May 2022

A government watchdog says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that...

Struggling to make ends meet, Afghan women sacrifice university studies

27 Feb 2022

Gulf Today Report As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her...

Afghan students return to classes as universities reopen for first time since Taliban takeover

26 Feb 2022

Kabul University, among Afghanistan’s oldest and most revered institutions of higher education, reopened on Saturday for the first time since the Taliban takeover six months ago. Men and women...

Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan

31 Dec 2021

In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul’s husband...

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