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Award-winning Journalist #Afghanistan #India #Ukraine . @iwmf @PRBdata @unfoundation @jcogt1 fellow. Words in @Guardian @NPR others Earlier: @dna @TimesofIndia
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One of my pieces on the climate-conflict nexus was selected for this prestigious award.
I am very honoured by the recognition and hope to keep reporting on how global conflicts are impacting climate and vice versa. Thank you
@CoveringClimate
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Extreme heat and drought exacerbate conflict in Afghanistan, and conflict makes it virtually impossible to monitor or act on these climate impacts.
@RuchiKumar
packs her story with data, historical context, and strong interviews. For
@ScienceMagazine
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Sharing this once again since disinfo about Indian ISIS recruits refuses to die.
Former official said total of 26 Indians were captured and held in Kabul prisons at time of fall of Afghan Govt. Of these, only 5 were women. NOT 32,000!
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This is so depressing to watch; the level some Indian “journalists” have to stoop to, to remain employed.
Sweta from
@Republic_Bharat
reporting live from Dwarka, Gujarat. Hope she's safe.
#CycloneBiparjoyUpdate
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This man’s work is seriously underrated. He’s realised many of BJP’s campaign promises and then some more, but gets little airtime. Maybe if he were to travel a bit more, and hug a few more people?
WATCH
Inauguration of 120 community toilet seats and Jan Suvidha Complex by CM .
@ArvindKejriwal
Usage Charges waived off on all DUSIB toilets from 1st Jan 2018.
Delhi Govt aims to make Delhi Open Defecation Free soon. Many more toilets under construction across Delhi.
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My nani had come to see me off at the airport the first time I few to Kabul, a city she has told me many stories about growing up.
I wish I could have been there to see her off today. 🕊
Till we meet again in another life, where I hope you will be nani again. 🌺💔
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That little Sikh girl clutching her Afghan passport, forced to leave her homeland 💔
Today, 55 more Afghan Sikhs left their country; about 30 remain, mostly in Kabul, few in Jalalabad and Ghazni. Once again, they were not allowed by the Taliban to take their holy book with them
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I have been in a constant state of anger since reporting this.
“They killed him and kept his body and would not return it. They disrespected the body so badly."
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An Afghan Sikh family who recently arrived in India had a baby who is very sick & needs to remain in hospital few days longer. Family is struggling to pay bills and needs help.
I don’t have the bandwidth to do a fundraiser &will really appreciate if anyone can help them directly
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“Ejazat Ast?” an older Afghan gentleman actually asked for my permission before getting in the elevator since I was alone. Afghan tehzeeb (is there a Dari word for it?) much like when even the taxi drivers always first refuse to take the fare, “Khair, mushkil naest!” :)
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The BJP must be really scared of their prospects in Modi’s home ground Gujrat if they are resorting to this.
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How did
@WorldPressPhoto
think this was an ethical approach to storytelling, let alone highlight it as something worth applauding. This is exploitative, degrading and inhuman--it is the misuse of someone's misery for shock value and profiting from it.
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@AyishaMuhamad
@irenaakbar
Nope. You’re lying. Here’s an actual news source about the adoption by this specific couple.
Not only is the child in touch with the parents but also her grandmother visits her regularly (next tweet). No mention of religion or custody case.
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"Last week I was a journalist. Today I can’t write under my own name..My whole life has been obliterated in days. I’m not safe because I’m a 22-year-old woman. and because I'm a journalist"
An Afghan reporter describes her escape from Taliban:
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In Feb last year, Marzia,a Hazara girl frm Kabul, made a diary entry: I've to try harder…I've to change my future and only way is to study. God! Me and Hajar, next year this time, we shouldn’t be in Afghanistan"
Last Sept, they were killed in an attack on their education center
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This is not justified. There’s no law in the country that allows this form of punishment.
Apart from being inhuman, it undermines the judiciary and constitution; how are the courts not offended by this?
#WATCH
| Residential premises of 2 arrested accused were illegal & without permission; we've taken action with bulldozers. More people are being identified. There will be coordinated action on any illegal properties found... We'll put NSA as well: Saharanpur SSP Akash Tomar
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So the Education “minister” believes education is irrelevant?
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How’s
@LNajafizada
not a meme yet for his many straight-face expressions and some hilarious remarks during a very excellent interview with Pakistani Foreign Minister
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It’s so surreal to think some of Afghan soldiers, trained by US and were once pride of Afghan army, are still fighting (and dying) against Taliban years after their “government”and “leaders” abandoned them. Must’ve been such a lonely battle. How does one rest in peace after that?
بهای آزادی خون است و بدون شک پیروزی در جنگ، قربانی میطلبد. فرمانده اکمل امیر و فرمانده بصیر اندرابی، همسنگران مبارز ما ش��اعانه در برابر گروه طالبان تا آخرین قطرهی خون خود رزمیده و قهرمانانه به شهادت رسیدند.
شهادت تان مبارک!
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A journalist wrote to me today asking my help to cover “fall of Afghanistan”!
Dear reporters who are discovering Afghanistan,
I’m here to help you navigate this new country you just found; but please read a book or a newspaper.
But more importantly, don’t be a vulture!
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This is the most surreal, but also this is what Kabul is about. This is what makes it so hard to stay away from this city; the energy here (in spite of the violence) is just heartwarming
In one corner the site of a terrorist attack and on the other people marching and chanting Alla O Akbar in support of Afghan Security forces.
#Kabul
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Another attack in Kabul, and once again seems to be on an education center in Dasht-e-Barchi area, a predominantly Shia Hazara neighbourhood.
Eyewitnesses say at least 10 injured people have been taken to the hospital so far due to the explosion in
#Kabul
city's PD13 in Dasht-e-Barchi, near an educational instiution.
The nature of the explosion has not been made public yet.
#Afghanistan
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Ooooh, Pashto has always been so hard for me to follow; so impressive she’s could string a full thought.
Every IPL I look for an opportunity to learn something new besides cricket🏏I’ve tried to do my best to speak this beautiful language correctly. If there are any mistakes please forgive me❤️Can U guess the language & what I’m saying?
#PzIpldiaries
#Ipl2020
#Dream11IPL
#Ting
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In Herat, the history of Jews is intimate. "This neighbourhood has a deep connection with the Afghan Jewish community; they lived around here, they had shops and businesses. They were butchers, they sold spices and clothes. This is their neighbourhood"
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From Rumi’s birthplace in 2017, to his final resting place in 2020; and every opportunity in between to learn more about his life and words from his own people, I’ve been blessed 🌺
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@ThePrintIndia
Oh please sit down! We live in a globalised, interconnected world and we need to show more dignity and humility in our solidarity.
Not too long ago, we were at the receiving end of aid and support from countries around the world, including Turkey. Despicable journalism!
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This isn’t just outrageous, but criminal! How can a flight leave
#Kabul
this empty when thousands of our friends are just a few hundred meters outside, waiting for days in the line of fire.
@SecBlinken
Sir, what was it again you said about
#Saigon
?
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Matiullah Wesa has been a consistent ally in advocating for girls’ education in Afghanistan. He and his brother have contributed immeasurably through
@PenPath1
towards ensuring all Afghans have access to books and schools.
Today he was arrested by Taliban.
#ReleaseMatiullahWesa
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@SidBakaria
This is indeed really beautiful. But, personally, I found highway’s in Turkey truly the best (of the handful of countries I’ve road tripped across), in quality of the roads as well as scenic countrysides.
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Hello everyone, this one is a personal call for help.
I’m trying to raise funds to help some of the Afghan Hindu families who escaped Taliban persecution and came to India.
They’re struggling to survive and need our help getting back on their feet.
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Important 🧵
And as someone who has actually investigated and interviewed Indian women who joined ISIS, I can assure you these numbers are very conflated.
Radicalisation is a serious problem and content like this, driven by hate agenda, do more harm and no good to solving it
THREAD: Around Nov 4, Sudipto Sen's promo for the upcoming film
#TheKeralaStory
was trending. He shared the clip and wrote, "Soon u’ll get to see a film which u never imagined, in ur remotest imagination."
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Indian journalists and media houses are asking Afghan journalists to risk their lives and report to you for their own TRPs!
What is wrong with you? Don’t you have any shame and ethics!
Are you so fucking stupid you have no idea what risk you are putting them in?
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#Charikar
carries a special place in my heart. I’ve made countless trips to and through that city, mostly for
#sheeryakh
, including one pretty crazy trip at midnight in 2015. Each time, I (&my family) was received with so much love and warmth. It breaks my heart to see it broken
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Putting this out here once again; if Afghan journalists, ESPECIALLY WOMEN, need help reaching editors, sources, writing pitches, editing drafts, please feel free to DM me. I will try my best to help in anyway I can.
Afghans should be telling their own story as much as possible🌺
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Happy Independence Day to Afghanistan, my second home ❤️
I wish future for you that is free of the pain and suffering.
روز استقلال مبارک
د خپلواکۍ ورځ مو مبارک شه
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Rawail Singh believed in a peaceful future for Sikhs like him in his homeland—and died for it. I had the opportunity to interview him (and get to know him) on many occasions. In this article I revisit some of our conversations and his love for Afghanistan
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Exactly eight years ago, today, I was in Band Aamir,
#Bamiyan
. It was glorious; pristine waters, clear skies and beautiful people.
Yesterday, the Taliban banned women from visiting this place. Breaks my heart that Afghan women can’t travel to parts of their own country.
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August15 means dramatically different thing for two of my dearest countries.
In 🇮🇳, it’s
#SwatantrataDiwas
a celebration of liberation
In 🇦🇫, it’s a reminder of loss of freedom and identity for so many
Dear fellow Indians, please keep our Afghan friends in your hearts today
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Just a few I recall:
* Abufazl Shrine 2011 (Kabul)
* Mazar-e-Sharif mosque 2011 (Balkh)
* Ghor mosque targeting Jamiat leader 2017(Ghor)
* Al-Taqwa mosque targeting Samiullah Rayhan 2019(Kabul)
* WazirAkbarKhan Mosque 2020 (Kabul)
* ShakarDara mosque during ceasefire 2021 (Kabul)
Taliban never attacked mosques. I don't know when the Westernized Afghan journalists will learn to be objective.
@AJEnglish
your journalists are leveling accusations without proof. This is not as per the ethics of journalism.
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Breshna Musazai was shot twice in her leg during Taliban attack on
@AUAfghanistan
. She pretend to be dead for 7hours, but was shot again while escaping. Last month she graduated more determined and resilient. “This is how we are fighting back.”
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Indian forces have recovered US-made weapons and equipments from insurgent groups in recent encounters.
Although a small number so far, these are equipments that belonged to the recently fallen Afghan army, and left behind by the US troops.
Latest:
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Official toll: 13 killed, 30 wounded.
Taliban has already denied.
Such attacks are usually claimed by ISIS in Afghanistan.
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For Maryam, 28, life changed overnight after Taliban seized her district in Takhar province.
“They announced during Friday prayers that the men should have beards and the women can’t go out of their homes without a mahram [a male guardian],”
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@dhananjays02
@swati_gs
Many of the travellers are homemakers themselves, which means they wake up earlier to prepare meals for the family for the day before heading out to work at 4am.
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Five years ago, I hosted my newlywed cousin for vacation in Afghanistan. We travelled to so many beautiful provinces and I got to show them a very different Afghanistan than they get to hear of. Kudos to my sister and jiju for undertaking this adventure with an open mind ❤️🌺
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How about a safe environment for Afghans?
AFP reports that the Taliban pledged to provide a “safe environment” for diplomats and aid workers in Afghanistan after Australia said it will close its Kabul embassy over security concerns.
“(We) will not pose any threats to them,” Taliban spox M. Naeem said as quoted by AFP.
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Things India did build in Afghanistan:
- A new parliament building (my Afghan caretaker used to call it the Indian parliament!)
- India-Afghanistan friendship dam in Herat
- Shahtoot dam
- Restored Storay Palace in Kabul
- Cricket stadium in Kandahar
- 200km DelaramZaranj highway
Trump mocks Modi for “constantly” telling him India built a library in Afghanistan. “We are supposed to say, oh thank you for the library. I don’t know who is using it....”
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A more honest film would feature people (many of them non-white) in their living rooms, calling, emailing, filling forms, uploading docs, updating exls sheets, coordinating pick-ups, navigating routes, begging officials on WhatsApp to open airport gates, then filling more forms.
Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy have been cast in an untitled drama about
3 former special forces team members who go back to Afghanistan to rescue families and allies left behind amid the rapid fall of Afghanistan last August.
(Source: Deadline)
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Genuine questions; why aren’t more Hindus offended that a man who calls himself a mahant is threatening to rape women, and other men shout Jai Shree Ram? It’s so disturbing to see.
Have you even read/listened to the Ramayan?
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I had a close-ish friend who blocked after his girlfriend asked him to. They eventually ended up married so I figured was worth it.
He reached out a couple yrs later, divorced and apologised for his behaviour. But then 6mnths later, he met someone else and blocked me again. Lol
My bestie voluntarily stopped talking because his gf asked him to choose between me and her - guess I made her v insecure. Then she left him and now he has no friend or girlfriend 😂
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How do you not feel immense awe, inspiration, sadness and horror, when you watch this!
Brave women of
#Afghanistan
are back on the of
#Kabul
protesting against restrictive policies of the
#Taliban
who shoots at them, detains them and the journalists tell their stories.
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Last month I had an incredible opportunity to interview Sabah Sahar, a brave policewoman who's one of the many targets of assassinations in last few months. She fired back at her attackers, while injured, and saved her daughter, bodyguard and driver
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Masih Alinejad says she tried to get support of organisers of World Hijab Day for today’s World Day without Hijab and they blocked her in response.
This is disappointing! Both campaigns seek women’s right to choice and goals are intersectional. We should be working together!
Me in
#ForcedHijab
under sharia law in Iran and me when I was
#FreeFromHijab
. I just love my hair but I get lashes if I don’t cover them in Iran. So you think talking about my feeling cause Islamophobia?
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“Why would I leave? This is my land, my country, my culture. Historically, we belong to Afghanistan."
Rawail Singh had already lived in a kinder, more tolerant Afghanistan. He was hopeful that things could change.
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So much excitement among Afghans voting today. I don’t think I’ve seen any other people care so deeply about wanting to persevere for democracy, despite threats, violence, reports of frauds and what not. It’s like all those negatives didn’t even matter for his one opportunity
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Only recently, I came across this extremely disturbing but a very powerful story by Rupesh Kumar Singh on the effects of air pollutions caused by unregulated industrial activities.
And today, he was arrested.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
मुख्यमंत्री
@HemantSorenJMM
जी, इस वीडियो में मौजूद बच्ची को देखिए।
इनका घर गिरिडीह जिला के गिरिडीह प्रखंड के गादी श्रीरामपुर पंचायत का कल्हामांझो है। यह 6 महीने पहले पूरी तरह से स्वस्थ थीं, फिर अचानक एक दिन सर दर्द हुआ और धीरे-धीरे सूरत ही बिगड़ गयी। इन्हें उचित इलाज की 2/n
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@AyishaMuhamad
@irenaakbar
Here are photos of Miriam (a fairly common name in the west) with her biological granny.
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"This video is so joyful and also so poignant. I want people to watch it and see a beautiful child having a moment of happiness—but not without also understanding the violence, pain and suffering Afghans are experiencing every day."
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A dog waits for its owners in the vicinity of a house that was destroyed by the earthquake, in Herat province in Afghanistan, killing all of its inhabitants.
[Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo]
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Captain of Afghan cricket team, still playing under the flag and colours of the Republic, is moved to tears at the end of Afghan national anthem. 💔
Mourning the loss of the nation, flag and its values.
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I haven’t slept in 40+ hours cause there’s so much to do. We’ve been constantly on phone, or texting, emailing, preparing letters, filling forms, making lists. And it’s not enough. It’s not even a fraction of what’s need to get our friends and families out. Get to work, people!
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Umm, so
@elonmusk
’s
#TwitterBlue
service is selling verifications to Taliban members now?
Just days after Taliban banned Afghan women from universities; the very women who could have been engineers, designers and scientists at Twitter.
هدایت الله هدایت صیب ته د اکاونټ د ویریفای کولو مبارکي وایمه
نوموړي د اسلامی امارت لومړی غړي ده چي چی ویریفای اکاونټ لري..
ډيره ډيره مبارکي
@Hedayatullah111
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Waiting for
@ShivAroor
@chitraaum
@RajatSharmaLive
to answer for this shoddy journalism!
Did not expect much from Mr Chaudhary to begin with.
Thread 🧵
Here is how India's mainstream media and their star anchors
@ShivAroor
@chitraaum
@sudhirchaudhary
@RajatSharmaLive
spread false information on the national TV and run propaganda of the ruling party BJP. (1/n)
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“Imran Khan is no longer playing sports.”-
@Shehzad_Ind
. “The mask might have changed, but the real face of Pakistan continues to be the deep state actors" – Pakistan's intelligence agency and the army – "which has an India-phobic approach."
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I just want to watch and share this over and again all day. More power to the amazing Afghan women.
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AltNews has rattled India’s rightwing like few others have. They’re now running a hate campaign
#BanAltNews
which it seems to have been overtaken by supporters donating to their team 😂
here’s my contribution to the watchdogs of our democracy
Thank you for giving more visibility to the Alt News donation drive.
#DonateToAltnews
Donation link :
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A visible number of Pakistani accounts are cheering Taliban gains in AFG as an Indian loss. How morally corrupt one must have to be to root for the destruction of a neighbour—an entire nation—only because you really hate another?
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Bombay people, go to the Afghan exhibition at JW Marriott in Sahar. Amazing Afghan handicrafts, carpets, fruits and produce.
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Just moments after this was taken, a suicide bomber (possibly a young person like these students) detonated himself at this learning academy (which looks like a makeshift classroom in a sports club), killing dozens of Afghanistan’s Hazara children.
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So this Afghan American woman reached out through a friend last week; she wanted to hire journalists to publish her stories in international media.
I explained to my friend that it was unethical. But he insisted I speak to her, so I shared my number
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Woo, the first shipment of wheat to Afghanistan (via Chabbahar) is coming from my hometown :)
Some care package from the fam ;)
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Have followed Tamana Paryani’s brave protests closely since Taliban takeover. The whole time there was something familiar about her tenacity.
Going through old photos today, I found what it was! She was the girl on the horse in Ghazi stadium opening a Buzkashi tournament in 2020
“Why is the world silent?!" Tamana Paryani enters week 2 of her hunger strike. The atrocities against women and girls in
#Afghanistan
under the guise of Islam are a stain on humanity. Be her voice. Stand up for Afghanistan. Don't let terrorists triumph. 🌍🗣️
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#Kabul
Zoo Director: Tickets for adults cost 20Afs, kids 10Afs and for foreigners it's 100Afs. But you're Indian so its free.
#TrueStory
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Same. In over seven years of reporting the length and breadth of Afghanistan, I’ve never seen this style of wearing a burqa. Even those who wear the black abaaya, do so very differently than this.
It does however remind me of how PM Imran Khan’s wife wears her hijab.
I have never in my life, including in travels to extremely conservative areas of the country, seen someone dress like this in
#Afghanistan
.
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Great news coming in about release of Afghan education activist Matiullah Wesa from Taliban captivity today. His family has confirmed
@matiullahwesa
was released today after spending 215 days in prison.
Congratulations to the entire
@PenPath1
team 🌺
Matiullah Wesa has been a consistent ally in advocating for girls’ education in Afghanistan. He and his brother have contributed immeasurably through
@PenPath1
towards ensuring all Afghans have access to books and schools.
Today he was arrested by Taliban.
#ReleaseMatiullahWesa
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I reported my story way before the Washington Examiner piece was out. I talked to people who had to struggle to retrieve his body and I saw what they did to him.
Shame on you for defending them and their brutality and disrespecting the body of a dead man.
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Want to share a personal news: I am so grateful to receive the Khaled Alkhateb awards 2020 for a story I worked on with
@noori1st
from Islam Qala borders in Herat about hundreds of Afghan refugees deported from Iran everyday.
Published in
@ForeignPolicy
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“Before 1992, Diwali in Kabul used to be grand."
I spent last
#Diwali
with Rawail Singh, his family. We talked for hours about how colourful Kabul once was. He was hopeful he would get to see a big Diwali in Kabul again. He died in ISIS attack this year.
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Some excellent news, especially for those that participated in
#FreeSalima
campaign. She’s out and safe! 🌺🌺
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Movies like Kerala Files “don’t offer any solution, but instead they want to provoke the religious sentiments of the masses,” Sampath said.
“If they really cared about this issue, they would be pressuring the govt to investigate radicalisation and recruitment among Indian youth”
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I watched the most horrible video of aftermath of an attack with children crying over their mother’s body. I’m terribly angry, sad and I know it’s not even a small fraction of what Afghans must feel. Why is human life valued so little?
Don’t ever @ me about privilege of Kabulis
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This is such an amazing story. Is there any surprise that the person who fought back with the terrorist was an Afghan?
On a side note, these details put Mr Aziz’s life at risk and I hope the NZ govt has made a note of that and arrangements for his safety
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US Embassy issued a security alert to its citizens in Afghanistan of possible attacks by Taliban on women—all kinds of women.
These are issued based on their own intelligence sources.
If this doesn’t scream an alarm to the US about Taliban’s intentions, I don’t know what will
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US Country Report on Terrorism 2021 stated there were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS. India’s National Investigation Agency has examined a total of 34 terrorism-related cases linked to ISIS and arrested 160 people, including 10 alleged AQ from Kerala and WB
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I have been thinking a lot about this picture, and the women in it. And what they overcame to be part of this frame.
Among them
@BreshnaMusazai
; shot twice, left alongside dead bodies of classmates for 6 hours during a Taliban attack. She survived & graduated despite the trauma.
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@abhijitmajumder
Oh please, sit down! I checked your profile and this is the first time you’re tweeting about it since the news was published almost two months ago. What prevented you from raising the issue back then? Or do you only exclusively speak on issues that the left raises?
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Another female Afghan journalists killed in yesterday’s explosion targeting an area largely populated by the Hazara ethnic group.
Her identities as an Afghan, as a Hazara, as a woman and as a journalist made her target of many hateful people and groups. 💔
Mina Khairi, one of our colleagues at Ariana News and Radio Ariana, among four killed in yesterday's blast in Pul-e-Sokhta area in PD6 in west of
#Kabul
city.
#HazaraLivesMatter
#Afghanistan
#StopKillingHazaras
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About time we see more men break gender stereotypes
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After a full day of counting explosions, that is not the story I want to share.This is the story I hope you read about Afghanistan:
Behind Rehman's cute smile& his adorable dance in his prosthetic leg, is his mother's dedication to give him a better life
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Update: there was such a overwhelming and beautiful show of support for this family from all walks of society. Thank you to everyone who shared the message, and to those who have offered help. You are all so wonderful 🌺
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This was so sweet and heartwarming <3
Difficult times for India. Afghans are with you at these difficult times.
#WeAreWithYouIndia
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An ambulance bomb, a classroom explosion, and now a suicide attack at a wedding; these just keep getting more senseless.
It’s not just about shrinking safe spaces for Afghans, but also a struggle to understand where the warfront really is or why are they seen as the enemy
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