Shoib Safi

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Hazara gunmen could scupper efforts to return displaced Tajiks and Pashtuns to Bamyan.

1 Sep 06

Skilled Pakistanis are taking lots of jobs in Kandahar while local men stand idle.

3 Mar 05

Students at Afghanistan’s second-largest campus are struggling with outdated materials, poor facilities and substandard lodgings.

3 Mar 05

President and defence minister deny rift after army is left out of independence festivities.

3 Mar 05

With the poppy-planting season only weeks away, the Afghan authorities face a hard task persuading farmers to grow wheat instead.

3 Mar 05

Residents of the Afghan capital are living with the constant threat of explosives and car bombs.

3 Mar 05

The central bank attempts to wrestle control of the country’s cash from the warlords and forgers.

3 Mar 05

Drugs lords are leaving their southern strongholds for a remote province far out of the reach of the authorities.

3 Mar 05

Locusts are wreaking havoc in the once thriving farmlands of Kunduz province.

3 Mar 05

Some of the country's more remote regions may have to wait years before their battered roads are repaired.

2 Mar 05

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