Will Trump finally stop America funding the Taliban?
For more than three years, democratic governments have been trying to pretend that Afghanistan does not exist. The embarrassed silence…
Are women being raped in Taliban jails?
It has been almost three years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. In that time, women have become…
Afghanistan won’t be at the Olympics
When the thousands of international athletes march proudly behind their national flags along the banks of the River Seine in…
Pakistan has jailed one of its last independent journalists
In a cosy Persian restaurant in an Islamabad strip mall, a young man approached Asad Ali Toor for a selfie.…
Afghanistan is on the brink of another catastrophe
When a massive earthquake struck western Afghanistan on 7 October, thousands of mud houses collapsed, crushing and killing the people…
