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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] -
Norouz celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photos by @RadioAzadi’s Sayedjan Sabawoon.
Afghans gathered at a fair full of music, rides, and food, while young men dressed in green, the traditional spring color, to try to kiss a holy flagpole raised during each Norouz.
But for thousands of poor Afghan families, the ancient festival is a vivid reminder of their woes as they struggle to make ends meet in one of the poorest and most volatile countries in the world….[read more]
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Norouz video by @RadioAzadi’s Sayedjan Sabawoon: People across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East are celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, which marks the coming of spring. In Kabul, Afghans gathered at a fair full of music, rides, and food, while young men dressed in green, the traditional spring color, to try to kiss a holy flagpole raised during each Norouz.
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![Caption: Afghan President Hamid Karzai kisses an Afghan girl wounded in a bomb attack on a Shi’ite shrine in Kabul. The attack killed more than 50 worshippers.
RFE/RL’s Pashto language Service, Radio Mashaal was the first to break the news when a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jangvi al Almi, a Pakistani terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to Radio Mashaal.
The attack is one of the deadliest against Kabul civilians since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago, and a rare attack specifically targeting Afghanistan’s minority Shi’ite community…[READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvvnkhycWw1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Caption: Afghan President Hamid Karzai kisses an Afghan girl wounded in a bomb attack on a Shi’ite shrine in Kabul. The attack killed more than 50 worshippers.
RFE/RL’s Pashto language Service, Radio Mashaal was the first to break the news when a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jangvi al Almi, a Pakistani terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to Radio Mashaal.
The attack is one of the deadliest against Kabul civilians since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago, and a rare attack specifically targeting Afghanistan’s minority Shi’ite community…[READ MORE]
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![Deadly Bombing Targets Kabul Shi’ite Festival
Dozens are killed and scores more injured in a suicide bomb attack at a Shi’ite religious festival in Kabul. Meanwhile, another deadly bombing kills at least four people near a mosque in north Afghanistan…[READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvs655sE951qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Deadly Bombing Targets Kabul Shi’ite Festival
Dozens are killed and scores more injured in a suicide bomb attack at a Shi’ite religious festival in Kabul. Meanwhile, another deadly bombing kills at least four people near a mosque in north Afghanistan…[READ MORE]
