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…

Gul Agha Ahmadi Wardak Preface  The 57th literary festival or the annual conference of the SAARC member countries writers and poets were held in New Delhi, India on 18, 19 and 20th October 2019. The SAARC seven member countries writers and poets participated in this academic and cultural festival. The counties were: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,…