Cultures Clash Over Women's Rights
A European activist and a liberal religious scholar differ on the roles women can play in Afghan society.
A European activist and a liberal religious scholar differ on the roles women can play in Afghan society.
The director of Afghanistan’s National Museum describes how he preserved the country’s historic heritage from destruction.
Accidental deaths from firearms are common, but Afghans are reluctant to give up their prized guns.
New programme seeks to get children out of orphanages and back to their families.
Poverty, desperation and poor leadership are combining to deplete one of Afghanistan’s most profitable exports: the root sap called hing.
Several provincial administrators dismissed by the president are refusing to go quietly.
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.
Authorities appear to be losing their battle against smugglers of antiquities.
Fed up with the way they're treated, scores of disabled take to the street to demand a better deal from the authorities.
Kabuli workers risk their health - and lives - eating from the capital's unhygienic food stalls.