Zan TV is Afghanistan’s first and only TV station run by and for women. Five months after it launched, ratings are soaring. RFE/RL’s Frud Bezhan met some of the professionals who are braving the threat of violence in order to break new ground for Afghan women. (Camera: Ahmad Massoud)
Bakhrudin Khakimov left the KGB and joined Taliban militants. He was one of hundreds of Soviet personnel who remained in Afghanistan after the Red Army withdrew in chaos in 1989. RFE/RL's Frud Bezhan has his story (Camera: Ahmad Massoud)
Efforts by Kabul and international donors to educate girls in Afghanistan have “significantly faltered in recent years,” according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
For decades, Pashtun tribal people from the villages along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan have ignored the invisible line that demarcates the two countries. But now they are bracing for the prospect of a Berlin Wall-style divide.
Police confirm a number of young women have appealed for help after private pics, contact details turn up on tawdry websites.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have presented their nominations for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought -- including Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in 2010 under Pakistan´s blasphemy law.
Faiza Elmasry tells us how the descendants of this family have turned their ancestral properties into modern business enterprises. Robert Raffaele narrates. (VOA)
Khan Beguma’s story is a tale of unending agony and inspiring courage and resilience.
Noor Kalam Wazir had to abandon his dream of becoming a scientist after fighting forced his family to abandon their North Waziristan homeland in northwestern Pakistan three years ago.
The opening ceremony of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) is set to take place in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat.
Countries adapted to celebrating their religious, racial, ethnic, and linguist diversity are typically stable and prosperous and face fewer domestic and external threats.
Publishers in Afghanistan are printing more books than ever before, but fewer readers are interested in buying them as reading habits are spoiled by social media addictions in a country where less than half of the population can read and write.
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