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This gorgeous region of Afghanistan has been untouched by decades of war

15th April, 2018 · admin

Business Insider (AU): The Wakhan Corridor is notoriously hard to reach. To get there, you have to drive, ride on donkeys, and hike the 250-mile journey from Kabul or fly into Tajikistan and cross the border from the North. Both ways are difficult, but travelling by land requires going through Taliban-held lands. Click here for more

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Smile! Postcards from Afghanistan’s furthest corner

25th February, 2018 · admin

BBC News: Wakhan province in the far east of Afghanistan is one of the most remote places on earth, accessible only on foot. Along with his team, Ershad Honaryar from BBC Persian made the five-day trek to a place called the “roof of the world”. There, he asked people he met to smile for a photograph

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Posted in Photos, Society | Tags: Wakhan |
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A short history of Life: Afghanistan’s lost magazine

3rd February, 2018 · admin · 1 Comment

BBC News: Bright, busy and colourful, newly digitised pages of Zhvandun magazine – Life, in English – reveal the aspirations of Afghanistan’s elite during decades of political and social change. It rolled off presses through most of the second half of the 20th Century, mixing articles on global affairs, society and history with fun stuff on

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PHOTOS: Street art in Afghanistan targets corruption and hate

17th November, 2017 · admin

PBS: Murals are popping up in and around Kabul, aimed at getting people to think about what’s possible. ArtLords, based in the Afghan capital, grew from a small group of artists and volunteers who wanted to share — in vivid color — the community’s desire to move from war to peace. Click here for more (external

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Posted in Art and Culture, Corruption, Photos |
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The Afghan diaspora – in pictures

6th November, 2017 · admin

The Guardian (UK): For the past four years, Dutch photographer Joël van Houdt has been documenting the journeys of Afghan refugees around the world. In Afghanistan, there is a dearth of information about the reality of the refugee experience. Van Houdt moved to Kabul in 2010 and witnessed the soaring optimism created by the US surge in which

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Posted in Photos, Refugees and Migrants |
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In pics: parkour teenagers in Kabul, Afghanistan

5th April, 2017 · admin

Xinhua: Playing parkour is a new phenomenon among sport fans in Afghanistan and very few people know about it in the war-battered country. Click here to view photos (external link).

Posted in Afghan Sports News, Photos | Tags: parkour |
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Avalanche Kills 45 in Eastern Afghanistan

5th February, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul / VOA News February 5, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Officials in Afghanistan say an avalanche caused by heavy snowfall struck a remote village Sunday in the eastern province of Nuristan, killing at least 50 people, and raising the nationwide death toll in the past three days to nearly 100 in such incidents. Another avalanche

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Posted in Environmental News, Photos | Tags: avalanche, Nuristan, Snow, Weather |
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The Millennials of Afghanistan Have Never Known a World Without War

19th December, 2016 · admin

Narratively.ly: Millennials are roughly defined as those born between the years 1980 and 2001. In Afghanistan, this definition carries an added layer of significance, as these years are the bookends of two particularly catastrophic periods of conflict: 1980, the first year of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and 2001, marking the beginning of the U.S.

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Photos from Afghanistan

18th December, 2016 · admin

Afghan displaced children in capital of Afghanistan   Afghan labors work at coal market  

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Peaceful, picturesque environment makes Bamyan popular tourist destination in Afghanistan

8th December, 2016 · admin

Xinhua: “Its natural beauty, panoramic landscapes, historical monuments, hospitable people and, above all, its peaceful environment, has lured me to Bamyan,” tourist Mohammad Haroon told Xinhua recently. Visiting the site of the giant Buddha ruins and lambasting the Taliban for blowing up the cultural heritage with dynamite, Haroon protested that the hardliner group, by destroying a

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Posted in Environmental News, Photos, Travel | Tags: Bamiyan, Band-e Amir, Buddha Statues |
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