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![Exclusive Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women To The World
KABUL — Dozens of women flock each day through the discreetly marked doors of Kabul’s Sahar Gul Cafe, Afghanistan’s first all-female Internet cafe…[read more]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7cwvf7x501qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Exclusive Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women To The World
KABUL — Dozens of women flock each day through the discreetly marked doors of Kabul’s Sahar Gul Cafe, Afghanistan’s first all-female Internet cafe…[read more]
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A video shows a man pointing a rifle at a 22-year-old woman named as Najiba, who is sitting at the edge of a ditch shortly before being shot in the village of Qol.The public execution of an Afghan woman in the village of Qol in Afghanistan’s northern Parwan Province prompted local and international outrage this week after a video footage of the act was obtained and published by Reuters.
Despite widespread reports that the Taliban was behind the execution, the Taliban has denied any involvement. RFE/RL’s Ahmad Hanayish and Frud Bezhan look more closely at how the former “Taliban-free” province became the target of international condemnation.
Ordinary Afghans, Islamic scholars, and even the Taliban say that the recent trial and execution of 22-year-old Najiba is a crime punishable by death under the Shari’a law. RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi interviewed Maulavi Hanafi, an Islamic religious scholar who has more on the subject.
In response to the execution, on June 11, dozens of women rallied in Kabul to condemn violence against women in Afghanistan.
Other news from Afghanistan:
#RFE/RL’s Frud Bezhan talks to veteran sports journalists and former Afghan athletes who say that sports under the Taliban flourished despite the fact that sport stadiums were notorious for public executions, stonings and mutilations under the Taliban. -
![iPhones ‘Steal’ Real-Life Moments In Afghan Capital
KABUL — A man is captured as he rushes home with a fresh loaf of bread. A teenager is caught driving an old horse cart during rush-hour traffic. A filthy child is shot while scavenging for scrap metal. All are “Stolen Moments,” a collection of images of everyday Afghan life taken by amateur photographers armed with iPhones…[read more]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66f00yfDi1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
iPhones ‘Steal’ Real-Life Moments In Afghan Capital
KABUL — A man is captured as he rushes home with a fresh loaf of bread. A teenager is caught driving an old horse cart during rush-hour traffic. A filthy child is shot while scavenging for scrap metal.
All are “Stolen Moments,” a collection of images of everyday Afghan life taken by amateur photographers armed with iPhones…[read more] -
![‘Kite Runner’ Author Urges More Support For Afghan Refugees
RFE/RL correspondent Courtney Brooks caught up with Khaled Hosseini at the United Nations on World Refugee Day, where he spoke about the plight millions of Afghans face, both inside and outside the beleaguered country.
“Of the 5.7 million people who returned to Afghanistan, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of them have not successfully reintegrated, and they end up either returning to Iran [or] Pakistan or being secondarily displaced because they don’t have access to…basic services that we need for day-to-day survival.” [read more]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5yln1cj6S1qkgi6go1_400.gif)
‘Kite Runner’ Author Urges More Support For Afghan Refugees
RFE/RL correspondent Courtney Brooks caught up with Khaled Hosseini at the United Nations on World Refugee Day, where he spoke about the plight millions of Afghans face, both inside and outside the beleaguered country.
“Of the 5.7 million people who returned to Afghanistan, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of them have not successfully reintegrated, and they end up either returning to Iran [or] Pakistan or being secondarily displaced because they don’t have access to…basic services that we need for day-to-day survival.” [read more]
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Gulsika was 13 years old when she was forced into an arranged marriage. The first 10 days or so were pleasant — but then the abuse started. [read more]
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“The first attacker was riding on a motorcycle and after the attack people gathered at the scene. The second suicide bomber walked through the crowd and blew himself up. Twenty-two civilians were killed and 50 others were injured.”
Javed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, tells RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan. -
RFE/RL interviews Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Eklil Hakimi during the NATO summit in Chicago…[read more]
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Wahid Mujda tells @RadioAzadi: [Arsala] Rahmani was the head of prisoners’ commission on the Afghan High Peace Council. And he was working on the issue of who should be released from prison. The suggestion had been made by Rahmani that five [Afghan detainees] at Guantanamo should be released [as part of a confidence building process], and the High Peace Council also had raised the issue several times. So Rahmani was one of the important and influential figures on the High Peace Council.”
-Wahid Mujda, a prominent analyst in Afghanistan on Taliban affairs speaks to Radio Azadi about the assassination of Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official and a member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council who was shot dead in Kabul on Sunday (May 13, 2012).
Read more in English here.
