The Afghan economy is flat-lining. This is due in large part to the Taliban’s ban on women having employment. Occasional photo shoots of provincial Taliban leaders cutting ribbons on a local bridge or road repair project do not conceal the fact that serious investment is not coming to Afghan...
FILE PHOTO: Fawzia Koofi speaks during an interview in Kabul April 12, 2012. Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken lawmaker Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights in Afghanistan and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014. Picture taken April 12, ...
Rome— National Geographic magazine's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" has arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation of Afghans following theTaliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy organized the evacuation o...
That photo has been likened with Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. National Geographic also made a short documentary about her life and dubbed her the ‘Mona Lisa of Afghan war’. Take a look:Afghan Girl She remained anonymous for years after her first photo made her an icon around the world...
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But Hossaini — whose 2012 picture of a green-clad Afghan girl crying in horror after a suicide attack also won second prize in the spot news category of the World Press Photo awards — said the Taliban’s promises were a sham.
McCurry was in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan in December 1984 when he came across the girl in a makeshift classroom. “I noticed this one little girl with these incredible eyes and I instantly knew that this was really the only picture I wanted to take,” he tells NPR. ...
NAGOYA--In a groundbreaking decision, the Nagoya High Court granted Japanese nationality to a child born in Japan to Afghan refugees because the parents were essentially “stateless” at the time of birth. The Sept. 11 ruling allows the 1-year-old girl, who was born in Toyohashi, Aichi Pref...
Her time in Afghanistan frees her from the haunting memories of that night in 1978, allows her to come to peace with the death of her family, and live again as the young girl of promise her parents nurtured.” NADIA HASHIMI, whose parents came to the United States in the 1970s, was ...
Although in today's Afghanistan women are still active in such sectors as health, business and education, girl students from seventh to 12th grades cannot attend school. Chief spokesperson for the Taliban administration, Zabihullah Mujahid, has visited the exhibition and praised the women stall owner...