Features and Investigative Reports

ZARANJ (Pajwak): Many young people and adolescents in the capital of north-western Nimroz are forced to work while continuing their education in order to support

Wahida Karimi, a woman entrepreneur in northern Jawzjan province, launched a small tailoring workshop with an investment of $2,000 to help ease some of her family’s financial problems. Today, her business has expanded and created job opportunities for more than 200 other women.

Abdulkhaliq Haqyar, a tribal elder in northern Jawzjan province who has been actively involved for nearly 13 years in resolving community disputes and promoting social peace, says that by relying on Islamic principles, local jirgas and the trust of the people, he has managed to peacefully resolve dozens of complex social and family cases.

The Department of Commerce and Industry in southern Ghazni says that approximately 13,000 metric tonnes of dried fruit have been exported from the province to foreign markets during the current solar year.

With only three days remaining until Eid ul-Fitr, while many prepare to celebrate the occasion, some needy families are still waiting for assistance to provide even a simple meal for their children.

While the month of Ramadan brings colourful iftar tables for many families, in some parts of Zaranj, the capital of northwestern Nimroz province, women live in conditions so dire that they cannot even feed their children. They are appealing for help.

Hundreds of Afghan migrants with legal documents are returning home from Iran each day through the Islam Qala crossing in western Herat province as tensions escalate between the neighbouring country and Israel, returnees and border officials say.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Thirty-eight-year-old Munir Ahmad – who has spent nearly half of his life addicted to drugs – says that in his youth, ignorance led

Analysts say the resolution of over 3,500 disputes across nearly four years demonstrates that local bodies and tribal elders are working in coordination, promoting dialogue, understanding and peaceful conflict resolution at low cost, encouraging Afghans to favour discussion over violence.

Several public school teachers in the capital, Kabul, have said their current salaries are insufficient, calling for an increase.

As plastic pollution grows into a serious environmental and health challenge in Afghanistan, women in northwestern Nimroz province are rejecting plastic bags in favour of cloth ones and establishing kitchen gardens, actively promoting a cleaner, safer and healthier living environment.

The value of the afghani against the US dollar has risen by more than 11 percent compared to ten months ago. According to money changers and economic experts, higher inflows of foreign currency, the conversion of UN assistance into afghanis and regulatory measures by the central bank are the main factors behind this increase.