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NewsThe Women’s Harvest
By JERICA ARENTS Autumn in BamiyanKabul, Afghanistan: After a week visiting Bamiyan, a rural Afghan Province, one thing has been made abundantly clear to me: the experience of being a woman in this country is...
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NewsWhy Karzai readily admits receiving bags of Iranian cash
Afghanistan has a significant Shiite minority, most of whom are ethnic Hazaras and who suffered particularly harsh persecution during Taliban rule, which has led to a strong reservoir of support in that community for the...
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NewsThis Is Your Brain on War
Kathy Kelly Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence Kabul — Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can’t seem to think,” he said...
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NewsThe Father of Modern History of Afghanistan
By: Jafar RezaiKatib Hazara: The Father of Modern History of Afghanistan It rarely happens that a western educational institute will publish the books from a third world country, which is severely blackened with the names...
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NewsKabul: First ever Aeroplane maker awaits flight permission
A Hazara boy, who has made what is being called the country’s first home-made plane, is waiting for government permission to fly his aircraft, an official said on Tuesday. Sabir Shah, a 10th-grader from Jaghori...
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News7 dead, 8 injured as van falls into ravine in Daikundi
NEILI (PAN): Seven people were killed and eight others were injured when their vehicle skidded off a road and plunged into a deep gorge in central Daikundi province, officials said on Saturday. The victims were...
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ArtPreserving Memory of Afghanistan’s Giant Buddhas
by: RENEE MONTAGNE When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left behind a broken country and an infamous act of destruction: reducing to rubble two monumental Buddhas that had stood for 1,500...
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Human RightsBanditry, Misogyny Keeps Afghanistan Backward
President Obama has telephoned British premier David Cameron to offer an apology. This comes after Linda Norgrove (pictured), a British aid worker, was killed in a rescue attempt that went horribly wrong. Ms Norgrove, aged...
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NewsA talented Hazara youth invents first ever Aeroplane in Afghanistan
Every nation’s continuous development depends on its people and the nations, which have suffered the brutalities of wars, can learn from its outcome to capitalize their strength to present souvenir to the nation. The Hazaras,...
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Human RightsSamar May Win Nobel Prize for Advocacy of Afghan Women’s Rights
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — Human rights advocate Sima Samar may become the first person from Afghanistan to Dr. Sima Samarwin the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote women’s health and education, according to...
By Hazara International