Women

SAR-I-PUL (Pajhwok): Women carpet weavers in northern Sar-i-Pul province are happy with their income from working in the recovering carpet industry. The female craftswomen, including

KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Mother’s Day is celebrated in the country at a time when some mothers have turned to hard labour or started .

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): After the suspension of girls’ high and university education, the number of females in religious madaris has surged by 65 percent in central

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): A number of women in remote districts of western Badghis province have complained about lack of female doctors and asked the government to

ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The United States and European Union (EU) have called on the caretaker government to investigate the schoolgirls' poisoning incident in northern Sar-i .

ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has resumed operations with its female staff in southern Kandahar and some other parts of Afghanistan. NRC Secretary General

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Some women in northern Balkh province have started selling old clothes on a roadside while government officials said efforts were underway . .

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): Entrepreneur Women in northwestern Badghis province have demanded support for their businesses during the launching of a special women bazaar in . .

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): A female entrepreneur has established a food packaging company and a handcraft- centre, providing jobs for 130 women in western Herat province.

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): The number of madrassas — religious schools — has increased recently by two fold comparing to the past in southern Ghazni province