In parts of Afghanistan, a custom known as "bacha posh" allows parents to dress their daughters as boys to give them temporary access to education or work. Hukmina decided to keep wearing men's clothing throughout her life, and this has afforded her freedoms that few other women enjoy.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week could potentially lead to cuts in funding for essential services for Afghan women and girls.
Pakistan's fence of more than 2,500 kilometers along its border with Afghanistan has forced Pashtun communities straddling the border to lose businesses, jobs, land, travel rights, and family ties.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have discussed the Afghan peace process and the war on terror during a phone call.
Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces resumed on May 16 in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day cease-fire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Islamic Eid al-Fitr festival.
Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan, has died in a Kabul hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting earlier this week by unknown gunmen in Herat Province.
Afghan officials say a blast at a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed at least 12 worshippers on the second day of a cease-fire declared by the government and the Taliban.
This week's Gandhara Briefing offers incisive pieces on how escalating violence is rapidly killing off hopes for peace in Afghanistan, the EU is pressuring Pakistan to improve its rights record, and former Afghan combatants long for peace.
Four separate bomb attacks have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 13 others just hours after a three-day cease-fire took effect as Afghanistan celebrates the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
One of history’s most remarkable acts of impersonation took place 100 years ago when a notorious fraudster walked a family of Afghan “nobles” into the White House.
The prospects for peace in Afghanistan appear to be less likely with each day as the Taliban intensifies its horrific attacks across the country.
Humanitarian groups are calling on Romanian authorities to help hundreds of migrants who are living in abandoned buildings in the city of Timisoara.
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