Shoib Safi
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Hazara gunmen could scupper efforts to return displaced Tajiks and Pashtuns to Bamyan.
Skilled Pakistanis are taking lots of jobs in Kandahar while local men stand idle.
Students at Afghanistan’s second-largest campus are struggling with outdated materials, poor facilities and substandard lodgings.
President and defence minister deny rift after army is left out of independence festivities.
With the poppy-planting season only weeks away, the Afghan authorities face a hard task persuading farmers to grow wheat instead.
Residents of the Afghan capital are living with the constant threat of explosives and car bombs.
The central bank attempts to wrestle control of the country’s cash from the warlords and forgers.
Drugs lords are leaving their southern strongholds for a remote province far out of the reach of the authorities.
Locusts are wreaking havoc in the once thriving farmlands of Kunduz province.
Some of the country's more remote regions may have to wait years before their battered roads are repaired.