URGENT: Responding to the Afghanistan School Blast
@ASEELApp team is on its way to the hospital to identify the affected people and families. We are raising these funds to provide emergency food packages and financial support for the medical treatment of the affected families.
Can taking a few photos really make you happier? Afghan rocker Sulyman Qardash tries a practice to find meaning through snapping photos of daily life.
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Nader Alimi, a well known physician who was kidnapped two months ago in Mazar-E-Sharif, was found dead yesterday, Tolo reports. He had spent decades of his life serving the people of Mazar-E-Sharif. RIP
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My parents always use public transportation in west Kabul where Isis has blown up at least three minivans in the past week. I tell them to take taxi which is a little safer but they never listen. I worry about their safety all the time but the past week has been a nightmare.
Two human rights defenders have been killed in #Afghanistan in recent days.
Frozan Safi in Mazar-e Sharif and Hijratullah Khogyani in Jalalabad.
Is this part of a wider crackdown on civil society?
When Taliban killed 14-year-old Ahmad Zia’s father and uncles in 2019, he became the sole breadwinner for 30 women and children
He earned $60 a month as a water bearer for Afghan forces
Now his family does not even have that meager income. #Afghanistan
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Taliban has banned musical instruments at weddings in #Afghanistan.
Now, some Afghan musicians are performing a Taliban-approved form of “music-less song.”
Musicians recite the Koran and stage theater performances that praise the Taliban.
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Scattered through these majestic mountains are small villages, people trying to survive. You can't see them in this photo, but they are there. Remember them. Even when the world has moved on. #Afghanistan#baghlan#افغانستان#بغلان
KUNDUZ: explosion happened inside a Shia mosque & a local official said the bomber was a child boot polisher who carried the explosives in his backpack. Based on initial info at least 70 people were killed & wounded in the blast.
“These cold-blooded executions are further proof that the Taliban are committing the same horrific abuses they were notorious for during their previous rule of Afghanistan”
@AgnesCallamard Secretary General of Amnesty International
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Freelance photographer Morteza Samadi is now released. Both the Taliban and his family confirm to the BBC. He was arrested three weeks ago covering a protest in Herat province.
For anyone who’s been lucky to know Shaharzad, her name alone easily invokes what she stands for.
But this’s also about what it took to become Shaharzad. And the crushing weight of this cycle: of building, from nothing, then watching it dismantled piece by piece, back to nothing