Written By: Sayed Momin Kandaharai Preface: After professor Habibi published a book (Pata Khazana) or (Hidden treasure), which contained veiled poems of old Pashto poets, few literates and critics challenged the authenticity and truthfulness of the book. They pointed out many complications and hitches in the book, but most of them got reasonable answers with…

By: Saleem Payenda Afghanistan is still ranked as the worst place in the world to be a woman. Despite the Afghan government and international donor efforts since 2001 to educate girls, an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not attend school. Eighty-seven percent of Afghan women are illiterate, while 70-80 percent face forced marriage, many…

The British Museum has returned more than 2,300 antiquities to Afghanistan since 2009 The British Museum has returned an ancient limestone sculpture believed to be almost 2,000 years old to Kabul after it was stolen during the Afghan civil war three decades ago and put up for sale in the UK. It shows a reclining…