🇦🇫 Mina Sharif
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In Afghanistan, clothing FROM AFGHANISTAN is not allowed. Musical instruments FROM AFGHANISTAN are not allowed. Singing our own songs is banned. This is not anti-western, it's anti-Afghanistan. Taliban's target is the erasure of our thousands year old culture, our existence.
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Traditional Afghan clothes are as bright as our natural spirit.
Our music, our poetry, our stories, our culture.
All of it is bright and beautiful. Trying to kill our identity is futile.
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Your daily reminder that this is our flag and Afghans never elected or agreed to a white one. 🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫
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When a man with a passport from a different country decides he should be president without an election, it's an invasion.
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What is a "privileged" Afghan? The luckiest ones are those whose families fled? Deprived of living in your homeland, disconnect from identity & reading headlines about your people suffering isn't privilege. Stop attacks on them & focus on why they are diaspora in the first place
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As Afghan refugees arrive to your countries please make note :
They will be grateful for your hospitality & are relieved to be alive.They will appreciate a safe place to raise their children.
But they did not want to leave. A free and safe Afghanistan is the dream, not this.
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Men showing up!! Yes, more of this support 🇦🇫🇦🇫
A group of young and old men riding motorcycles have launched a campaign to reopen girls' schools.
#Afghanistan
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Just to put some good energy on twitter - this is a photo I took from the car window, driving to Paghman, 2018. 🍉🇦🇫🇦🇫
#Afghanistan
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Afghans are sending messages of love & hope to Ukraine, even while Afghanistan's own similar circumstances are considered debatably tragic & mostly ignored. There is no "what about us?"
Instead the strong message is "Nobody should suffer this way" I love the Afghan spirit 🇦🇫
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The obedient pet is blushing at the praising from his boss.
ISI & Taliban, team terrorism.
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Music concert with men and women in the audience.
Hi Taliban internet soldiers... want to tell Saudi Arabia they're unislamic?
Hi Saudi & other Muslim countries, your complete silence about the actually unislamic oppression of Afghanistan is noted.
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"but Taliban are Afghan"
Listen I grew up in Canada & went to Canadian schools. If I storm into Afghanistan with Canadians and some other diaspora, taking control without an election,that would be an invasion.
Pakistan is where Taliban are RAISED, this is in fact an invasion.
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I love Afghanistan. I love Bamyan. And I love sending a message to “supporters” of Afghan women who still think we should be discreet and hidden. “Its not good for women to show their face.”, while you go on and on in public about women’s rights. You’re exhausting. We’re over it.
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WOMEN ARE NOT ALLOWED to travel without male supervision. Maybe if we leave out the "Afghan" part, more human rights groups & activists will be outraged.
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Imagine an Afghan goes to Texas for school. Lives on campus. MAYBE eats at restaurants & meets locals w/ a translator.
1 year later: writes books about Texas, is called an "Expert" on Texas, speaks for Texans.
This is how foreigners treat Afghanistan & its insulting.
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Dear Taliban intern team who used to host twitter spaces regularly... Can you have one about how unislamic this is...and explain why Saudi, Pakistan, EVERY other Islamic country can have foreign music, but Afghanistan can't even have its own?
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Yet another slap in the face when I see photos of Afghan women in the 60s wearing skirts refered to as our "potential". TODAY, 2021, right now, there are women who outshine the world in bravery, intelligence & leadership. Do not reduce our demands for freedom to showing legs.
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Listen, like, retweet :
Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it.
My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant.
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We filmed children singing beautiful Afghan songs when the country was free.
#FreeAfghanistan
@HabibKhanT
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When school has to happen, no matter what 😍 🇦🇫🇦🇫
*not my pic, don’t know source*
#Afghanistan
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I know its a crowded twitter but please don't skip this video.
The Taliban have said "20 days" as a warning. Which by Western standards is at least twice the average media attention span.
Crystal Bayat was one of seven women at a protest she helped organize on Independence Day in Afghanistan. Days after the Taliban took over, raising the Afghan flag became an act of resistance. “I am raising the voice of a million women,” she said.
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Hazara community, Hindu community, Shia community, Sikh community...the risk goes so much deeper than women going to work and school.
I have nothing to offer but want to acknowledge you and the added layer of fear in your hearts. I love you ❤️
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I have been to rural areas in Afghanistan (30 provinces since 2005, many areas not fully accessible by road) I met Afghans who were mostly conservative, yes. But on their own Afghan terms. This is not conservative vs liberal. This is Afghan culture vs Taliban ideology.
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If you're in San Francisco, be a part of this important demand to
#BanTaliban
Twitter offers Taliban a platform to recruit & spread hate
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Thinking of the Hazara community today. Step one, everyone needs to learn what happened. Genocide is not a word that is used lightly - its used accurately. Step two, we fight together to make sure that it stops. To be an ally means speaking up.
#StopHazaraGenocide
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Bringing you colour, sweetness and joy with Afghan grapes ☀️ Please credit the photographer for me if you can.
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Afghanistan does NOT END on August 31. Please don't let all the discussion be about what happened. There are 38 million Afghans who need you. Particularly diaspora Afghans - of course you're devastated but you MUST make at least some of your airtime about those who are left.
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#SanctionPakistan
is an EMERGENCY
Are there other issues besides this country? Yes
Is it a perfect long term solution? Probably not
But that's not how emergencies work. What will save Afghan lives right now is
#SanctionPakistan
#SanctionPakistan
#SanctionPakistan
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PROTEST ORGANIZERS :
Please don't use your own words
"We want peace, stop killing Afghans.." is an abstract waste of time right now.
Afghans are demanding
#SanctionPakistan
If you want to protest for your people, tell the world what Afghanistan is saying, word for word!
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@USAmbKabul
You did nothing malitious, but you exposed your lack of qualification to speak on Afghanistan (who you somehow left out of your apology). The right way to fix this is to be replaced. You can't ask the internet to teach you about your job & expect to learn as you go.
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War is the curse that makes it painful to be Afghan. But its not our identity. The true soul of Afghanistan is so beautiful that nothing can break it.
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Brought me to tears that Prince was the secret funder of our Afghan Scouts training center, changing Afghan lives
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We all loved seeing him on the road amongst his people. Most of you know who he is & wish we had more like him.
❤️🇦🇫
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Pashtuns are being hunted & killed for being anti-Taliban. Please know that they're dying too. But they aren't killed simply for existing like Tajik and Hazara communities are. The Taliban are commiting genocide & I stand against them, it has to be said
#PashtunsRejectTaliban
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Not everything is exactly like the 90s. This time there are millions of Afghans around the world WITH PLATFORMS ... you can either use this time to be silent, speak of your own struggle, or demand
#SanctionPakistan
There are SO MANY people to blame - later! Save lives now.
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I'm thrilled to share that my short story has been selected as a finalist for the
@cbcbooks
short story prize. As someone new to writing fiction, this is a huge honour. It means a lot to me that Afghanistan is represented & I hope I have done her proud 🇦🇫
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My maternal grandmother's sisters and their children at the women's park -Kabul, 1950s. All of these Laghmani women went to school. One to medical school. While I recognize privlidge, the support they received from family to be educated was not abnormal or groundbreaking. 🇦🇫❤️
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Highly recommended unfollowing Afghan diaspora who (since Aug 15) lead angry screaming "discussions" about a place they've never seen.
There must be a few who are focused on helping starving civilians. Please tag them so we can amplify their useful, timely efforts✌️🇦🇫
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This is when I showed snapchat filters to some kids in Qarkhanatoo village in Bamyan
#Afghanistan
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Afghan asylum seekers were burned alive in Iran. Citizens of Iran please stand up against this. My experience in Iran as a tourist gave me a TINY peek into the blatent racism. I was worried about Afghans being bullied -not realizing the disgusting headlines to come
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Don't call it peaceful until atrocities stop and this is back. This was my morning view of Lesey Zarghuna. My mother studied there & then taught there. I loved seeing the happy girls on their way to learn & dream about their future roles in Afghan society. That is their right.
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Hello journalist, if you paid any attention, you'd notice there's essentially zero concern for how cooperative selfie taking foreign tourists are treated by Taliban. Thank goodness for her nice time, but the women of Afghanistan would appreciate the right to be 'unharmed' as well
BRAZILIAN WOMAN TAKING A SELFIE AND UNHARMED WITH THE TALIBAN
But she was gang raped by 7 men in India.
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Afghan women risk their lives to speak out against the Taliban - while feminist groups, world leaders, men in general remain silent or offer their useless pity.
As usual, Afghan women are their own heroes. Please be loud with them. Amplify their strong voices 🙌🇦🇫
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Women from round one, learning to cut patterns at the Durkhanum Sewing Circle. EVERY penny goes to fund this emergency training for women who lost their jobs two months ago. Please donate & share to support these incredible breadwinners & their families
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It's funny "borders don't matter" when it comes to where Rumi was born, so Afghanistan should not try to "claim him". But borders are pretty evident when it comes to Afghan migrants. Make up your mind "experts".
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@bobuqsayed
We should talk, I am at a point where I want to unleash every lawyer and journalist Ive ever met on them.
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A lot of you are doing a great job calling out hypocrisy on twitter - so let me do the easy work of sharing charming Afghanistan moments: who else put orange peel on the bukharee for a beautiful scent?
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When can Afghans access their money? When can they receive money to buy food?
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Just checking in with the "we finally have peace" crowd of diaspora .... Have you all moved to Afghanistan yet?
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Protest in Kunar against the Taliban's brutal, violent inhumane means of "law enforcement"
A massive protest in Asadabad, Kunar, against the Extra-Judicial killings of the Taliban.
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I learned the art of observing energy in 🇦🇫 villages. Afghans treat 'guests' with hospitality no matter what - but immediately recognize opportunists vs. those who truly love them. If you dont realize their wise abilities to read you, your connection with 🇦🇫 is simply not solid.
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It DOES NOT MATTER what you see of Afghanistan in tourist videos or hear from foreign passport holding migrants. What matters is that the LAWS the women of Afghanistan are forced to live under are inhumane. Taliban’s own laws, decrees, and abuses are the clearest "evidence." 🇦🇫
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When Afghanistan is proud, happy, free....there's no white flag in sight.
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Where there's joy, there's no Taliban flag. Congratulations to
#Afghanistan
on the cricket win. 🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫
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Some beautiful strong faces of Afghan women circa 1890s.
I get a lot of attacks from Pakistani nationalists simply for being proud of where I'm from & our history. I'll take this opportunity to remind you, these are ancestors to many of you as well.
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Wondering what the 9/11 families have to say about this? Surely you don't want citizens on the brink of starvation, who had nothing to do with your loss, to pay you? THERE WERE NO AFGHANS INVOLVED
Your late family members deserve honest acknowledgement & this isn't it.
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Afghans are born full of spirit. No manufactured ideology can change that. ❤️🇦🇫
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Reformed & peaceful
Mr Naya Taliban
@Zabehulah_M33
Sahib these are Your So Called Changed Talibans. Snatching National Flags from Afghan Citizens and Beating them infront of Public. Now where is Your Stance?
@amnesty
#Afganisthan
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I don't know a thing about cricket, except that it has given Afghans the first smiles I've seen in months. Thank you to our team - you are winners for the joy you bring to your people and your flag 🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫 🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫
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What impresses me about Taliban is how they consistently show us new levels of cowardice. Destroying the tomb of someone who hasn't been alive for 20+ years is an embarassing level of fear. Afraid of unarmed women, cameras, dead people, education,Afghan culture, music, art...
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I will never accept the Taliban ideology, but I won't call the Pashto language anything less than beautiful either. Ideologies don't own languages, please don't give it to them.
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Shame on all the makers, promoters and distributers of energy drinks in Afghanistan. Without even adding disclaimers about giving it to children. Can Afghans not even have their health, because you need the extra profit ???
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EXPLAIN PLEASE
How "bringing peace" involves the destruction of an ancient fort in Helmand, Afghanistan?
This is a direct attack on our history. Where is
@UNESCO
? Where is the outrage? Please share this.
This is a deliberate destruction and attempt to wipe out our identity.
بد خبر:
د گرشک د ځايي خلکو په وینا؛ چارواکي د ګريشک پخوانی بالاحصار نړوي او پر ځای ئې مدرسه جوړوي، دغه تاریخي کلا(زوړ محبس) سردار صدیق خان جوړه کړې او ۱۷۰کاله تاریخ لري، تاریخي کلاګاني د هیواد تاریخي هویت دئ، ساتنه یې زموږ ټولو مسؤلیت او دې کلا د نړولو پر ځای د رغولو لار څارل!
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In one short answer : Pakistan's involvement.
My response to deutsche welle in regards to Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan.
#SanctionPakistan
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Kandahar ⬛🟥🟩
We want education for girls.
We want schools for girls in ever village
We want higher education for girls
We want education and human rights
#PenPathGirlsEduCampaign
#PenPathKandahar
#GirlsEducation
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Afghans outside of Afghanistan & anyone that calls themselves an ally. The real work begins now and it could be for a lifetime. Its what you do and say when Afghanistan is no longer a headline that matters most. Continue to hold our invaders accountable for their promises.
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@WazhmaAyoubi
Nobody says it isn't safe at all -we know bullets aren't flying. People are panicking about mass poverty,targeted killings, displacement, lack of judicial process, women jailed w/o rights. When you highlight your drive, it takes away from those causes, even if you don't mean to
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To help Americans understand :
This is like respectfully interviewing American school shooters about their opinion and contribution to education.
Imagine you're a parent who lost your child in one of the attacks, and that's what you're watching journalists do.
Disgusting
The US has a $10 million reward for the arrest of Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is now the acting Interior Minister of Afghanistan. In an exclusive interview, I asked Haqqani about this and whether Afghanistan will again become a base for international terrorism.
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I don't like to highlight negative behavior of disapora...but honestly I've been trying to support Afghan evacuees in Canada for months now & have been blocked by a disapora gatekeeper every time. I don't want your clout, I just want to be there for Afghans. Get over yourselves.
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If there are any Pakistani citizens reading this, please acknowledge that Afghans are being hunted by a group your government has trained & sent across the border. This is not your fault. 🇦🇫 government is MUCH to blame as well. Consider your personal morals at this crucial time
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To Afghan men who speak out publicly in favour of women’s rights, ok thank you. Now step two : make yourself CREDIBLE by acting on your claims of equality with your wives, sisters, moms & daughters. Otherwise it’s much preferred you show your true colours.
#equality
#Afghanistan
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Look at the strength and courage of Afghan women. Nothing, nobody in this world comes close. So proud! 🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫
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An Afghan responds
Facts: modern
#Afghanistan
was established in 1747, almost 30 years before the US came in to being. 🇦🇫 has remained a nation despite its recent violent past.There has never been a separatist movement in the country's history despite its numerous ethnic groups.
Biden describes Afghanistan as a country that's "never been united" and is comprised of "tribes that have never, never gotten along with each other."
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Afghan women face armed Taliban to demand their rights every day. They want normal lives & dont have any hero /saviour complexes despite being superheros.
But in Hollywood, America is the hero again 😂😂😂
My sympathies to the good Americans who know to be embarassed by this
Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Guy Ritchie’s action-thriller ‘The Interpreter.’
He will play Sergeant John Kinley who returns to Afganistan to save Ahmed, the local interpreter who saved his life after an ambush, before the local militias reach him and his family first.
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Foreign journalists & men are never going to be an acceptable gauge of how "fine" Afghanistan is. Truly, none of your sweet interactions with Taliban mean a thing.
Until the girls,women and ethnic/religious minorities clearly state they feel secure, Afghanistan is not safe.
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I got a call from a young teen I personally know, who is threatened with forced marriage by a Talib. Nevermind the economic disaster their family faces & the ban on schooling...I don't know how to encourage hope & strength on this. "I don't want my life to be ruined," she said.
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Airstrikes from where?? We name Russia pretty clearly, don't we?
Airstrikes from Pakistan.
UNAMA is deeply concerned by reports of civilian casualties, incl. women and children, as a result of airstrikes in
#Khost
&
#Kunar
provinces last night. Civilians are never a target. UNAMA is working to establish facts on the ground and verify the extent of losses.
#Afghanistan
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Shameless Taliban lobbiest binary arguments are desperate!
Anti Taliban is not pro starvation.
Anti Taliban is not pro west.
Anti Taliban is not pro violence.
Anti Taliban is not anti Pashtun.
Anti Taliban is a demand that everyone in Afghanistan have rights, dignity & safety.
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The women of our country are feared by men who know they don't have half the spirit.
Hanifa Yousoufi, the first known woman from Afghanistan to climb the summit of Afghanistan's tallest peak, Mt Noshaq. It's 24,580 ft high, just 4,000 ft less than Mt Everest. 🇦🇫
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A big American organization is asking Afghan women to share their stories for a book. I almost forwarded this to some women in terrible situations. Then I saw that submissions chosen, will compensate the Afghan women $25.
There is apparently, no limit to the disrespect.
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People are tired just from HEARING the bad news in Afghanistan. These women live it, watch the world ignore them, their own men mostly silent too...they know they're alone. And somehow they keep going. The courage of Afghan women is unmatched. 🇦🇫❤️
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The Taliban first creates widows in Afghanistan and then punishes them for being alone.
#Afghanistan
The Taliban have begun issuing fines to women in Herat who are without a male chaperone. It's a disgrace for the free world to sit back and watch this unfold against women in Afghanistan!
Source :
@AmuTelevision
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The beautiful design by my visionary friend Rahim Walizada. Afghanistan is always rich with beauty and talent. Taliban, there are probably many of you who could have been gifted artists too, if the cult didnt take you.
#FreeAfghanistan
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And like Prince, Mohammad Ali cared for the people of Afghanistan. We won't forget you!
#RIPMuhammadAli
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Our flag and identity remains stronger than any 71 year old country could imagine. Afghanistan is thousands of years old & trying to erase our love for who we are does not work.
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Quote:
"Afghanistan is a conservative society. In the cities,women wear short scarves. In rural areas, depending on the region, they wear long colorful scarves. Some also wear the all enveloping burqas which come in blue, yellow, white and red. But not niqab. This is not Afghan"
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Something uplifting for your Afghanistan timeline: The women in our sewing circle made coats! The second round of students is almost ready to take home the supplies & run small home business' of their own to feed their families. We desperately need help to fund round 3...
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Traumatized and in danger but united and determined. Faith and strength is Afghanistan's super power. 🇦🇫❤️
Video by national TV shows the moment rockets landed near the Presidential Palace during Eid prayers this morning.
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How about a fundraiser for flights INTO Taliban run territory for all the sympathizers? For every Pakistani national who spoke for them, random foreigners, and even women. You deserve to live your dream.
#SanctionPakistan
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When a gifted Afghan writer tells you the story of what happened in Afghanistan, you will understand it better. You will feel it. My friend Jamaluddin Aram :
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Look at his face, begging for it not to be true. That exact moment that his heart shatters. Afghans like this sweet boy will carry heavy heavy trauma on their shoulders. Its pure evil what the world is allowing.
This front-page
@nytimes
photo by
@kianahayeri
stopped me cold today... Read that caption. It’s Mother’s Day...
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As long as even one Afghan is standing there will always be Afghanistan.
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