Mohammad Shafiq

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Suspicions that unscrupulous loggers are stripping away trees that make western Afghan city a greener and shadier place.

4 Apr 11

Afghans donate millions to try to revive the country's ailing schools

3 Mar 05

Thousands of families living in bombed-out shells across the capital are already feeling the chill.

3 Mar 05

Afghanistan looks to international community to make good its promises to rebuild the country’s crumbling electricity system.

3 Mar 05

The women of this eastern backwater do all the men's work and no-one - not even the Taleban - has ever been able to change them.

2 Mar 05

Authorities appear to be losing their battle against smugglers of antiquities.

2 Mar 05

Moneychangers feel the pinch after new currency introduced.

21 Feb 05

A plague of locusts is threatening to devastate large swathes of farmland, just as tens of thousands of refugees return from exile.

21 Feb 05

Powerful new broadcasting equipment will bring the power of television to areas that have never experienced it.

21 Feb 05

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