Afghan talks off to a rosy start
Factions OK role for ex-king, lean toward peacekeeping troops
Fractious groups to meet at U.N.-sponsored talks
Monumental task to develop Afghan government (Analysis)
Demanding to be heard
By Fariba Nawa November 14, 2001 Mother Jones Advocates for Afghanistan's women are pushing to ensure that women's freedoms are protected under a post-Taliban government. Peshawar -- As diplomats at the United Nations continue to lay out plans for a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan, advocates for the country's women are increasingly worried that the rights
Afghan carpet industry unravelled by war
By Fariba Nawa November 11, 2001 Agence France Presse Peshawar, Pakistan -- These are depressing times for the staff at Herat Carpets, who pass their days drinking copious quantities of tea and staring disconsolately at the nomadic tribal carpets they specialize in but cannot sell. The Afghan carpet industry -- primary source of income for
Clinic struggling to cope with Afghanistan’s refugees
By Fariba Nawa November 5, 2001 Agence France Presse Peshawar, Pakistan -- Fatana Gailani's small clinic is under siege, under-staffed and running out of resources almost as fast as its clientele of Afghan women refugees is growing. Set up in 1986 to provide basic medical care, the free clinic in northwest Pakistan has in the
Hamid Karzai risks his neck for royalist cause in Afghanistan
By Fariba Nawa November 2, 2001 Agence France Presse Quetta, Pakistan -- Hamid Karzai, now on the run from the Taliban, is the latest envoy to covertly penetrate Afghanistan in search of support for the country's ousted monarch. Like Abdul Haq, who was caught and executed by the Taliban last week, Karzai, 46, made his
Students of the war
By Fariba Nawa November 2, 2001 Mother Jones The turmoil in their native Afghanistan has followed refugee students and teachers to their new home in Pakistan. Islamabad -- For the students and teachers at the Malalay Afghan refugee school here, the US offensive in Afghanistan is simply one more link in a familiar chain of
Minority Hazaras rejoice at Mazar-e-Sharif’s recapture
Rout of Taliban may not trigger ethnic reprisals
Support for Taliban written in blood
By Fariba Nawa October 31, 2001 Agence France Presse Peshawar, Pakistan -- Gholam Dastagir lay still as his blood dripped into a plastic bag. For the 55-year-old Afghan refugee, any mild discomfort was offset by the knowledge that a pint of his blood could keep one of the Taliban's battle-hardened troops alive and ready to
Women’s rights group struggles to gain respect among Afghans
By Fariba Nawa October 30, 2001 Agence France Presse Peshawar, Pakistan -- They have been called Maoists, spies for the Soviet Union, for Pakistan and now the United States. They work undercover, breaking the hardline rules of Afghanistan's Taliban militia and angering religious conservatives with their liberal politics in Pakistan. But the aptly-named Revolutionary Association
