Sunday Times Archives - Afghan-American Journalist

I can make a difference – if I can stay alive

By |2025-11-08T11:16:28+00:00June 19th, 2011|Sunday Times|

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The ghosts of Pul-e-Charkhi

By |2025-11-08T11:18:55+00:00February 24th, 2008|Reports, Sunday Times|

Since the Taliban were ousted, 86 mass graves have been uncovered in Afghanistan — their occupants the victims of torture and murder. Fariba Nawa went in search of her uncle — a professor who dared to teach

How the West short-changed Afghanistan

By |2025-11-08T11:18:31+00:00October 29th, 2006|Reports, Sunday Times|

We went to war to restore democracy and prosperity to Afghanistan, and spent billions on building new homes, hospitals and highways. But five years and thousands of lost lives later, everything is crumbling and the ferocious Taliban are back. Where did it all go wrong?

Brides of the drug lords

By |2025-11-08T11:19:20+00:00May 9th, 2004|Reports, Sunday Times|

Afghanistan's opium trade is worth £14 billion a year. But when its dealers are shot or jailed, their daughters are sold as wives to settle their debts

Brides of the drug lords (un-edited version)

By |2025-11-08T11:18:13+00:00May 8th, 2004|Reports, Sunday Times|

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Return of the native to a nation reborn

By |2025-11-08T11:18:06+00:00July 14th, 2002|Sunday Times|

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