Afghanistan

Karzai's Year of Mixed Fortunes

President speaks of progress and shortcomings, in assessment of first year in office.

21 Feb 05

Bereaved provincial women are being forced to marry their late husbands’ relative in defiance of both Muslim and civil law.

21 Feb 05

Thousands of women are suffering from mental illness brought about by their suffering over the last two decades of conflict.

21 Feb 05

Drivers are sick of being forced to pay levies and bribes simply to pass from one part of Afghanistan to another.

21 Feb 05

Security chiefs vow to pursue “saboteurs” as explosions continue to shake the capital.

21 Feb 05

Afghanistan’s provincial midwives are to be professionally trained in a bid to cut the country’s horrifying childbirth mortality rates.

21 Feb 05

Authorities hope accurate demographic data will help them rebuild their war-ravaged country.

21 Feb 05

Exiled Ismailis returning to their homes in the north find little has changed since end of Taleban era.

21 Feb 05

Non-Muslim minorities are finding it hard to integrate their children into Islamic schools.

21 Feb 05

Female law enforcers may soon be back on the streets of Kabul but lingering conservative attitudes mean they won’t be in uniform.

21 Feb 05

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