Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2016 An Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine is to be freed on bail, days after being arrested in Pakistan on fraud charges. Sharbat Gula, whose green eyes made her famous as a child refugee, was arrested in the northwestern city of Peshawar on October
1TV: Afghanistan is the third most lawless country in the world as it ranked 111th in total of 113 countries in the list, while Denmark ranked as the most lawful, according to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2016. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul / VOA News October 28, 2016 Diplomatic and legal efforts are underway in Pakistan to secure an early release from police custody of a green-eyed Afghan woman whose photograph as a young refugee was published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. Police arrested 46-year old Sharbat Gulla this past Wednesday at
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 26, 2016 Pakistani authorities have arrested National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” for possessing a forged Pakistani identity card. Sharbat Gula, who grew up in a Pakistani refugee camp and is now in her 40s, faces up to 14 years in prison if convicted of fraud. Shahid Ilyas, an
SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — Three children were injured as a bomb went off in a wedding ceremony in Shiberghan. the capital of northern Jauzjan province on Tuesday, provincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani said. “A bomb blast ripped through a wedding party in a local hotel in Shiberghan city at around 03:30 p.m. local
Tolo News: The Afghan foreign minister and the Iranian ambassador to Kabul said Sunday that a prisoner exchange program has been finalized between the two countries based on an agreement signed few years ago. According to the Afghan-Iran prisoner agreement, prisoners swapped will serve out their sentences in prisons in their own countries. In the first phase of
The Wall Street Journal: The last Western prisoner held in an Afghan prison was flying home to Australia on Monday after seven years in a high-security facility he shared with al Qaeda and Taliban inmates. Robert Langdon, a 44-year-old Australian security contractor, was initially sentenced to death for shooting an Afghan colleague, setting fire to his body
By Abdul Qadir Ghafoori and Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 29, 2016 He calls it matrimony. Her parents call it kidnapping. Whatever the case — and it’s a complicated case — an Afghan mullah finds himself behind bars following his purported marriage to a 6-year-old girl. Sayed Mohammad Karim, a 50-something religious figure in a
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 20, 2016 The family of a pregnant Afghan girl who was burned to death has demanded that the government bring the alleged perpetrators to justice. The family of 14-year-old Zahra says she was tortured and set alight by her husband’s family in the central province of Ghor. Relatives of
Khaama Press: At least four people have been arrested for the alleged sale of donkey meat in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan. Provincial police spokesman Sher Jan Durani has said the four men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon in Sholgara district of Balkh. Click here to read more (external link).