Investment Turn-off
Government plans to encourage foreign investment are hampered by, amongst other things, the absence of a private banking system and labyrinthine bureaucracy.
Government plans to encourage foreign investment are hampered by, amongst other things, the absence of a private banking system and labyrinthine bureaucracy.
Indian and Afghan filmmakers are back in Kabul, hoping to cash in on an audience starved of cinema.
Desperate to get to Iran, Afghans entrust their money and lives to smugglers.
Nangarhar people hope malaria mosquitoes will be an early casualty of peace.
Reformist interior minister slices away at power of police strongman.
People with psychological problems are chained up at a holy shrine, hoping traditional methods will cure them.
Many Afghans want war criminals to go on trial, but justice is still far off.
Women resort to folk remedies to prevent pregnancy because they often have no alternative.