A mother who escaped violence, and the price she paid
In late 2025, a short video began circulating widely on Afghan social media. It showed a boy sitting between two men — one the host of a YouTube program, the other the child’s father. The…
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Reports
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
Haron was five years old when he began working on the streets of Kabul. Now 11, he sells socks from a woven basket and carries a small scale so people…
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Afghan women: The largest imprisoned population in the world
This year marks the fourth International Women’s Day in which the Taliban have imprisoned Afghan women and girls inside their…
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New research documents ISKP’s deadly campaign against Hazara-Shia
Between 2016 and 2024, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) waged a sustained campaign of violence against Afghanistan’s Hazara-Shia population. Suicide bombers detonated devices at girls’ schools, timed to examination…
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Interviews
‘I write because acceptance is impossible’: Farida Faryad on memory, violence, and women’s voices
Farida Faryad was born in 1992 in Kabul and later moved to Jaghori district of Ghazni province, where she completed her primary and secondary education in 2011. In 2015, she…
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Narrative
My father married me off with an old man for a promise of eye treatment
This narrative from Salima was told to a Zan Times journalist. Five years ago, my husband beat me so severely that I only remember losing consciousness from the pain and…
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Arts & Culture
A life as wide as the courtyard: A review of ‘Let Me Write to You’
The story Let Me Write to You by Nahid Mehregan takes place in the city of Herat during the first Taliban rule. The novel narrates the lives of several women…
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