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Afghans Question Reconstruction Scheme

Debate participants say the National Solidarity Programme's projects are not always well run.

IWPR Debates Seen as Key Educational Resource

Discussion events give people a chance to learn about the state’s obligations to them.

Afghan Survey Suggests Optimism About Peace Talks

Mood of general support for reconciliation with Taleban, in a survey group of around 2,000.

These people, just inside Kyrgyzstan, are being handed goods which they will take over the border into Kazakstan for a fee. (Photo: IWPR)

New Trade Rules No Barrier to Kyrgyz Contraband

Strategic position and porous borders makes Central Asian state ideal location for trading, and smuggling too.

Following the last parliamentary election, staff move ballot boxes at Independent Election Commission warehouses in Kabul, September 2010. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

Afghans Angry at Election Delay

According to the constitution, polls should have been held weeks ago.

Afghan boys work at a factory making bricks used for construction in Herat, Afghanistan. (Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Afghan Children Forced into Hard Labour

Poverty and conservative traditions keep many youngsters out of school.

Afghans Turn to Taleban Justice

People lose faith in inefficient and dishonest state judicial system.

Afghans Impatient With Temporary Officials

Only a handful of governors have been formally appointed, and local government is in chaos.

Afghanistan: Farkhunda's Death Prompts Self-Reflection

At debates in southern regions, speakers acknowledge that irrational emotion often blanks out common sense in public narratives, with sometimes fatal consequences.

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An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. © Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

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