NYT: In Panjshir, one of the last holdout regions against the Soviets and the Taliban, some would prefer to go their own way rather than support a government negotiating peace with the insurgency. Deputy head of the upper house of Parliament who represents Panjshir: “…don’t trust the government anymore.” Click here to read more (external
By Ayaz Gul VOA News September 10, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The United States is pressing authorities in Afghanistan to bring to justice an influential former head of the South Asian country’s soccer federation who is on the run from criminal charges of sexually assaulting multiple female players. Washington’s acting U.S. Ambassador to Kabul Ross Willson
1TV: Around 60 Taliban fighters on Tuesday stormed a region in Afghanistan’s Panjshir, a normally peaceful province in the north of the capital, local officials said. According to the official, the area was surrounded by security forces who were trying to capture the militants. The attack coincides death anniversary of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the anti-Soviet
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 26, 2020 Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Afghanistan have killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others in Parwan Province just north of Kabul, Afghan officials said August 26. Ghulam Bahauddin Jailani, Afghanistan’s state minister for natural-disaster management, told RFE/RL that the floods have also
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 12, 2018 A landslide has killed at least 10 people and destroyed nearly 300 homes in northeast Afghanistan. Two helicopters with a rescue team and emergency aid flew to the province of Panjshir where the disaster struck late on July 11. Omar Mohammadi, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management
Fox News: It has been dubbed Afghanistan’s Green Zone: A pocket of paradise amid the bloody, conflict-ravaged country — both a hidden gem and full of gems. Specifically, they are world-class emeralds seemingly just waiting to be mined. Located some 80 miles along a snaking road northeast of Kabul via Bagram, the Panjshir Valley boasts stark
Fox News: Every day, just before sunrise, a hunched figure moves down the mountain from his mud-hut home in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, ready to work from dawn to dusk collecting wood, cutting stones and using them to build houses. Only this is no ordinary mountain man. This is Abdul Satar, known by locals simply as “Sheikh.”
AP: On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in multi-coloured kayaks navigate the white water. A drone-mounted camera also followed the kayakers’ progress, buzzing and hovering above them like a mosquito. Click here to read more
By Frud Bezhan September 9, 2016 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Resistance fighter and anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Masud was killed by Al-Qaeda assassins on September 9, 2001, ushering in a chain of events that would place Afghanistan at the center of the global war on terrorism. Two days after his death, Al-Qaeda operatives would carry
CNN Money: In Afghanistan, where decades of warfare have ravaged the country, there’s a beautiful green oasis tucked between the mountains that’s home to something rare and precious. The Panjshir Valley, located north of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, is an area rich with more than 172 emerald mines. Known as Panjshir emeralds, the gems boast a unique bluish-green color