Ensuing violence takes its toll on children in Kandahar
KANDAHAR (SW) – The ensuing deadly violence has taken its toll on children in Kandahar as health officials note 30 per cent increase in referrals of the youngsters.
Category: Soceity
Continuing with the job of choice during migration
KABUL (SW) – Mohammad Aslam Taymour was an active media professional in Afghanistan before leaving the country about six years ago due to security concerns and settling in Switzerland.
Dozens of schools closed in Kandahar amid fierce fighting
KANDAHAR (SW) – Dozens of schools have been closed down in Kandahar province amid fierce fighting between the security forces and the Taliban insurgents.
A Helmandi youth’s tale of successful return from migration
LASHKARGAH (SW) – The phenomenon of migration caused by its push factors often has a set of problems and hardships, and even the threat of death with it, which only few migrants evade.
The enduring trauma of irregular migration
KUNAR (SW) – Evidently puzzled and shaken, Qiyas Qazi Khel of Kunar province still shivers when he remembers the difficult days of his irregular migration to Europe.
Return of over 500,000 migrants from Iran
QALAT (SW) – Amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Afghan migrants have been deported back to their war-ravaged country.
Only ethnic Pashtun governors for 15 provinces in 5 years
KABUL (SW) – Findings by Salam Watandar indicate during the past five years, in 15 predominantly Pashtun provinces, the governors have always been from the same community.
Irregular migration; a gamble for life and death
MAIMANA (SW) – Afghanistan remains among leading countries whose citizens continue to migrate regularly and irregularly in a large number for various reasons.
Kyrgyz of the Pamirs lament lack of government attention
FAIZABAD (SW) – The Kyrgyz community members living in the valleys of the Pamir Mountains in Badakhshan province say the government has neglected them.
Afghan refugees lose jobs amid pandemic in Pakistan
KABUL (SW) – A significant number of Afghan migrants live in Pakistan where the spread of coronavirus has multiplied their difficulties.
Aqila; a class topper who went to school fasting never to return
KABUL (SW) – To document the ordeal of devastating school bombing in Kabul, I went to the ‘Hill of Chehel Dokhtaran’ (forty girls); the most remote point of the Dasht-e-Barchi area in the city.
Afghan migrants’ never ending quest for safe life
KABUL (SW) – In quest for a safe shelter and better living conditions, many Afghan citizens have been choosing the path of irregular migration that seldom helps end their sufferings.
