An elderly Afghan man walks along the road during snowfall in Herat on January 8, 2014. As winter sets in across Central Asia, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families. See the full size Picture>>>

A young Afghan girl slides down a snow-covered hummock during snow-fall in Kabul on January 8, 2014. As winter sets in across Central Asia, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families. See the full size Picture>>>

An Afghan archaeologist insists a third giant statue lies near the cliffs where the Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed in 2001, once stood.  Clad in a safari suit, sun hat, hiking boots and leather gloves, Zemaryalai Tarzi leads the way from his tent to a rectangular pit in the Bamiyan Valley of northern Afghanistan. Crenulated sandstone cliffs, honeycombed with man-made grottoes, loom above us. Two giant cavities about a half-mile apart in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth-century statues of the Buddha stood for 1,500 years. More>>>

“I just make myself more invisible in the society” while “becoming more visible”
on the Internet, Mahboob, 26, a computer science graduate of Herat University, said of her tactic for coping with opposition in a country that faces potential upheaval after international combat troops leave at the end of this year. Off a dusty, unpaved street near Kabul University, Roya Mahboob’s software company is designing a Web platform to let Afghan women create content from home even if Taliban militants return to power and curb their rights.  More>>>

KABUL — A woman has been appointed as a district police chief for the first time in Afghanistan.  The Interior Ministry named Colonel Jamila Bayaz on January 14 as head of Kabul’s District 1.  She is the first woman to become a district police chief in Afghanistan, where less than 1 percent of police officers are women.  Bayaz previously worked in the investigative branch at Kabul police headquarters. More>>>

Streets of Afghanistan is a cultural, bigger-than-life art exhibition that highlights the beauty and soul of the land and the people of Afghanistan while challenging existing perceptions of the war-torn country. A ground-breaking collaboration of Afghan and Western photographers through life sized photography.  Photography is a means of expression. In a place where expression is often limited, allowing photographers to see their work in their home country is not just allowing them to take part in an art exhibit, it’s a form of empowerment. More>>>

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Afghanistan’s Under-19 cricket side arrived in Pakistan this week to train with the hosts’ elite academy coaches in preparation for next month’s World Cup. They will train at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore for three weeks as they tune up for the ICC Under-19 tournament in the U.A.E., which starts on Feb. 14. They will also play eight practice matches against various teams, including three against Pakistan Under-19 at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Friday. More>>>

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Mansur FaqiryarThe Afghan goalkeeper, Mansur Faqiryar, who was recently elected to receive the North Athlete of the Year Award in Germany, is looking to set up a football club in Afghanistan. Faqiryar, who is currently a university student in Germany, says the set up of the football club will be in accordance with the European football clubs, in a bid to provide professional training to children and youths who are interested in football. More>>>

Mansur Faqiryar has been hailed as a hero in Afghanistan ever since he won the South Asia Football Federation Championship with the Afghan national team: “I would like to give Afghans the opportunity to witness something unique. It will probably go in the direction of opening a football school to give Afghan youngsters hope and provide them with know-how – also from German trainers”. More>>>

The Afghanistan Football Federation won the 2013 FIFA Fair Play award at the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2013 soccer awards ceremony in Zurich, after hosting their first international match at home, a friendly against Pakistan, for 10 years in August. Afghanistan had defeated Pakistan 3-0 in the friendly match played on August 20, 2013. Afghanistan, ranked at 139th in the world just above Pakistan, gave home fans little to worry about, dominating the game from the kick-off and going three goals ahead mid-way through the second half.More>>>

Despite working as a traffic officer in Kabul for over 20 years and being deemed “incorruptible” by multiple governments, including the Taliban, Abdul Saboor has never been promoted. Saboor, 52, might be a better symbol for the sacrifices that an honest man must make in Afghanistan to follow the law. In two decades, he has received only one minor promotion. His salary, unaided by bribes, is $200 per month. His toes are black after being run over several times. His throat is perpetually sore from Kabul’s dust and pollution, but he struggles to afford medicine or hospital visits.  See the Video>>>

Police officers in Afghanistan do not have an easy job. But in recent months, their lives have gotten even tougher: Afghanistan’s police officers have not been paid since November, and some have not seen a pay cheque since October.  The government has the money, which comes from the United States and its NATO allies, but the Interior Ministry, missed a deadline for filing the necessary forms with the Finance Ministry. More>>>

Wafiullah IftikharThe Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) announced Sunday that nearly $762 million was invested in various sectors during the year 2013, which shows an increase of 25 percent. According to the AISA officials, trade exhibitions, international conferences and government’s efforts to allocate land for industrial parks, were the main reasons behind the 25 percent growth in investment in Afghanistan. More>>>

Two senior experts of the Archaeological Survey of India will be going to Kabul soon to check the authenticity of the huge 400 kg begging bowl, said to belong to Gautama Buddha, and then initiate the process of bringing it back to India.  The bowl was in Kandahar till President Najibullah brought it to Kabul and since then has remained in the Kabul Museum. The cruel Taliban rulers destroyed all Buddhist relics in Afghanistan, but left the bowl intact because it had Quranic verses inscribed on it. More>>>

Ahmad Zaki is a professor of architecture at Kabul University. But in upstate New York, thousands of miles from home, he is filling a different role: that of a student of urban planning. “If you see a picture of Kabul City, you’ll realize that the city is badly in need of urban planning expertise,” says Zaki, a Fulbright Scholar and architect by training.  “There are traffic jams everywhere. And when it rains, due to lack of a drainage system in place, many parts of the city become un-walkable and many roads get flooded,” he says. More>>>

Mountain2Mountain was founded in November 2006 by Shannon Galpin. Shannon took action on her deep conviction that all women and girls deserve the same rights and opportunities as her own daughter. She walked away from her career as an athletic trainer and used her own limited funds to launch M2M and “be the change” she wished to see in the world. Shannon recruited volunteers and donors and travelled to Afghanistan to develop M2M’s initial projects.  More>>>

A new report released Wednesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR, says that the Afghan central bank is severely limited in its ability to regulate commercial banks, which could possibly lead to a new banking crisis.  The audit was conducted by SIGAR after the near collapse of Kabul Bank in September 2010 when international donor agencies, including those in the U.S., “raised major concerns” about the regulatory capacity of Afghanistan’s central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank. More>>>

TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Salt extracted from the Taqcha Khana mine in northern Takhar province is being sold in many other provinces in Afghanistan. Located northeast of the country, Takhar has 46 different mines, including the salt mine in Namak Aab district, creating work opportunities for more than 1,500 people.  In the past, people extracted salt from the Taqcha Khana mine in a non-professional ways, but mining methods have now improved and the product is better. More>>>

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