Young Afghan men and women at a rock music festival inside the Bagh-e Babur | gardens of Babur.

The RAWA was first initiated in Kabul in 1977 as an independent social and political organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and social justice.

The organization then moved parts of its work out of Afghanistan into Pakistan and established their main base there to work for Afghan women.

RAWA was founded by a group of Afghan women led by Meena Keshwar Kamal.

She also established schools for Afghan refugee children, hospitals and handicraft centers for refugee women in Pakistan.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

In the area of Massoud, women and girls did not have to wear the Afghan burqa.

She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.

Two Afghan women in burqas.

One of the six female defendants was wearing the head-to-toe cloak which is mandatory for Afghan women in public, while the others had veils over their hair only.

U. S. Army officer Lt Col Pam Moody with a group of Afghan women on International Women's Day 2011

Mahbuba Hoquqmal, the Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs, said the constitution does not grant protection to women's property rights, and does not prevent women being forced to marry without their consent, and does not offer better guarantees of equal treatment by Afghanistan's courts.

In the “ Beauty Without Borders ” iniative, Vogue sponsored a project to teach beauty skills to Afghan women.

It is mainly intended for women and children, whose development has long been neglected in Afghan society.

At the time the Spartacists believed it provided an opportunity to extend the gains of the October Revolution to the Afghan people, especially women, in a struggle against the misogynistic Islamic fundamentalists of the U. S .- backed Mujahideen.

Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp ; McCurry seized a rare opportunity to photograph Afghan women and captured her image.

However, there were a number of women who came forward and identified themselves erroneously as the famous Afghan Girl.

In recognition of her, National Geographic set up the Afghan Girls Fund, a charitable organization with the goal of educating Afghan girls and young women.

Category: Afghan women

Human rights groups say hundreds of women in Afghan jails are victims of rape or domestic violence.

( U. S. invasion of Afghanistan ) The bill addresses assistance for Afghan women and girls in the areas of political and human rights, health care, education, training, security, and shelter.

She introduced the Child Care Affordability Act of 2007 to increase access to child care by providing tax credits Maloney's amendment to a foreign aid bill succeeded in securing $ 60 million in funding for programs for Afghan women and girls and to help establish an Afghan commission on human rights.

Protests from Kabul arose when the victim in the torture tape with Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan brutally beating a man who is believed to be an Afghan grain merchant that ripped him off for only $ 5, 000.

She wrote appreciatively about the landscape and people of Afghanistan, calling herself " Afghanatical " and claiming that the Afghan " is a man after my own heart.

Afghan man with tabla

Among these stories are the tales of an intelligence official working to combat nuclear terrorism, a detainee lawyer fighting for rights at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a young Pakistani man interrogated under the White House, an Afghan teenager who spends a year in American high school, and former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she returns to Pakistan to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.

* Haji Faiz Mohammed ( 1932 -), an Afghan man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Abdullah Shah ( died April 20, 2004 ) was an Afghan man found guilty in Kabul of killing more than 20 people, including his wife.

According to a report, from a man who must have been an Afghan with the local government, Jamal ad-Din Afghani was: "… well versed in geography and history, speaks Arabic and Turkish fluently, talks Persian like an Irani.

In April 2009 a video emerged of a United Arab Emirates Royal Sheik, Sheik Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan ( a son of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ) directing the torture of an Afghan grain dealer Mohammed Shah Poor The video includes the man being tortured with a cattle prod to his genitals, sand in his mouth and being run over by a Mercedes SUV.

" as a tribute of respect for our gallant adversary Balbudder Commander of the fort and his brave Gorkhas who were afterwards while in the service of Runjit Singh shot down in their ranks to the last man by the Afghan artillery.

On March 13, O ' Connor travelled to Kandahar to meet with Abdul Noorzai of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, " look the man in the eyes ", and gain assurances that detainees were being supervised.

Afghan troops were reported to have been ' wiped out to a man ' in their trenches, with losses of up to 600.

Afzal Khan was a powerful man of Afghan descent and was an experienced warrior.

This man was captured by Afghan Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan.

An Afghan man casting his ballot at a polling station at Lashkar Gah, which is the capital of Helmand province.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

In the Afghan census, Aimaks are classified as Tajiks.

However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

There are over 50 Afghan television channels worldwide, many of which are based inside Afghanistan while others are broadcasted from North America and Europe.

Fish constitute a smaller part of the Afghan diet today because fish farmers are unable to produce enough fish to keep up with the demands of customers.

The Afghan handwooven rugs are one of the most popular products exported from the country.

Plans are being made by the Afghan government to begin extracting these but with the Taliban insurgency and the corruption there is no telling what will happen.

Some believe, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai, that the untapped minerals are worth at least $ 3 trillion.

As a result of the new banks in the country, Afghan expats are sending more money back home to their family or relatives.

According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

Taliban are still very much alive and fighting a vigorous insurgency from bases in the frontier regions of Pakistan with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO, Afghan government targets and civilians.

Since 2008 the Afghan National Security Forces ( ANSF ) are in charge of security in the city.

The police belong to the Afghan Ministry of Interior and are arranged by city districts.

The Afghan Border Police and the Afghan National Police are in charge of the airport security.

There are approximately 16 licensed banks in Kabul: including Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan International Bank, Kabul Bank, Azizi Bank, Pashtany Bank, Afghan United Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Punjab National Bank, Habib Bank and others.

GSM / GPRS mobile phone services in the city are provided by Afghan Wireless, Etisalat, Roshan and MTN.

The Afghan forces are composed of the Afghan National Army ( ANA ) and the Afghan Air Force ( AAF ), which includes the Afghan commandos and special forces.