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Source link www.rferl.org Thousands of Afghans forced to return to Afghanistan after a crackdown in neighboring Pakistan say they now face life in makeshift camps without proper sanitation or water. The Afghan returnees also say they were only allowed to bring $175 of their own money with them. Others ...

Sara Sharif's fugitive father and stepmother described the schoolgirl's death as only 'an incident' today as they were seen for the first time since fleeing to Pakistan.In a remarkable video, Urfan Sharif and his partner Beinash Batool said they were willing to co-operate with British police and will 'fight ...

Attaullah, 16, was travelling to school on Tuesday to collect his exam results, using a cable car to cross the ravine from his village – as he had done many times before. But when a cable broke and left him, five other children and two adults hanging precariously in ...

For three years now, I’ve been regularly visiting a special corner of the Internet — the digital library of former Attorney General K.K. Venugopal. In March 2020, Venugopal decided to digitise and upload his extensive collection of antiquarian books — a process that took, for the first lot of ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek news website has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday’s deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece, in which more than 500 people are feared drowned after an overcrowded boat carrying as many as 750 migrants went down in international waters.Passengers on ...

Spera, Khost – Much like every other morning last week, 25-year-old Peer Jannat religiously woke up at 2.30am on April 16 to prepare for Sehri (Suhoor) – a pre-dawn meal Muslims consume ahead of their daily fasts in the holy month of Ramadan. “Just as we were sitting down, ...

LOS ANGELES, Apr 4: New York-based Indian singer Falguni Shah, known by her stage name Falu, won a Grammy Award for ‘A Colorful World’ in the best children’s album category.The Mumbai-born singer-songwriter took to Instagram to thank the Recording Academy, which conducts the Grammys, for the win.“I have no ...

SRINAGAR, INDIA —  Freelance journalist Sajad Gul was at home in Shahgund, a village in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, when the army came for him. It was about 10 p.m. on January 5. The journalist’s family told local media that Gul received a phone call asking him to come ...

SASKATOON, SASK. -- Dozens of Afghan women are elated to be experiencing their first Canadian winter after a harrowing journey escaping Afghanistan, where they faced retaliation for their work in education. About 200 Afghan women and their families began arriving in Saskatoon, Sask., as refugees in September after fleeing ...

Gul Ahmad Rasooli's phone rang the day the Afghan government collapsed. The now-former governor of the province of Zabul — a remote, mountainous southern Afghan province bordering Kandahar — had taken refuge in the capital, Kabul, as the security climate in Afghanistan unravelled over the summer. The Taliban had overrun Qalat, ...