Opinion
The Silence of Afghan Girls’ Classrooms Enters Its Fifth Year
Five Years of Silence, 1,645 Days of Denial: Afghan Girls Still Barred from Classrooms
Bombs Over Homes: Afghan Civilians Paying the Price for Pakistan’s Airstrikes
Airstrikes hit Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Paktia, and Paktika as escalating tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan leave civilians caught in the crossfire.
Still Here, Still Playing
The Taliban tried to erase a generation. Four years later, Afghan women footballers are back — reclaiming visibility and freedom.
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Stolen Childhoods, Silenced Futures
A Special Report on the Rise of Child Labour in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Afghan Deportations Are a Moral and Humanitarian Disaster
The trucks rumble across the border, packed with men, women, and children—their…
Stolen Childhoods, Silenced Futures
This report from The Afghan Times investigates the worsening child labour crisis…
Bricks or Bats: In Afghanistan, children build kilns or chase dreams—But not both
At the edge of a blistered brick kiln, 11-year-old Ahmad lifts a…
Digital Censorship and Women’s Education in Afghanistan
After the fall of the Afghanistan Islamic republic government to the Taliban…
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Education
The Taliban deferred inquiries on girls’ education “until further notice.”
The Taliban's Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, announced…
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Why Are Children Still Working in Brick Kilns?
Inside Afghanistan’s Brick Kilns: How Poverty, Debt, and a Broken System Are Forcing Children to Work