Malali Bashir is a correspondent and senior editor with RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan. She is based in Prague and reports on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
With no officially sanctioned women's league to play in, a 16-year-old in Kabul has set up her own cricket team to get on the pitch.
During their rule in the 1990s, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban banned photography, television, and the Internet by declaring that taking pictures of living things was forbidden in Islam.
Hundreds of underage girls selling pens, calendars, plastic bags, tissues, books, magazines, and chewing gum to passing cars. While afflicted by poverty and misfortune, they have to put up with constant harassment.
On December 17, 2016, five women and their driver were gunned down and killed on their way to work at Kandahar International Airport. They were employed by a private company to carry out luggage and body searches for female passengers. Their names were Asila, Shafiqa, Noorzia, Najla, and Farida. They were individuals with unique aspirations, hardships, and histories.
After courting Islamabad for nearly 15 years, Washington is turning to India to help shore up Kabul through diplomatic engagement and military aid.
Reports of the Taliban’s budding relationship with Tehran, showcased by the Taliban leader’s Iran visit shortly before he was killed, surprised many. But a keen observer of the region sees it as an attempt by both to protect interests in Afghanistan’s complicated conflict.
The Indian ambassador in Afghanistan says his country is there for the long haul and intends to stand by Afghans as they struggle to restore peace and stability in their homeland.
India's ambassador to Afghanistan has rejected media reports that his government is heading for a strategic shift in relations with Kabul.
A young Afghan mother welcomes the death sentence handed down against her own father for years of sexual abuse.
The former head of Afghan intelligence offers scathing criticism of neighboring Pakistan's policies toward his country.
Afghanistan's new first lady has taken a bold public stance on women's rights, signaling her intention to play an active role as presidential spouse. Born and raised in a Christian family in Lebanon, Rula Ghani made her remarks in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent Malali Bashir.
After 13 years of fighting Kabul and its Western backers, there are signs Afghanistan’s Islamist insurgency is fragmenting into criminal cartels.
Human rights groups say the Taliban is stepping up its attacks on civilians, and U.S.-led forces have failed to investigate civilian deaths caused by their own operations.
Civilians are paying a high price as a consequence of the Taliban’s sophisticated attacks in several Afghan villages and cities.
Despite President Barak Obama’s recent announcement to end the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan by the end of 2016, Afghans hope Western nations will continue to invest in their country's future.
A mudslide that killed hundreds of villagers in a remote corner of Afghanistan has triggered an unprecedented wave of charity among Afghans dependent for generations on international humanitarian aid.
