Society

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  Society

  2023-07-13

  101 couples tie knot in mass wedding in Kabul as part of new trend

  Unemployment and poverty have made traditionally expensive, lavish weddings out of reach for many Afghan youth. Mass weddings provide an attractive alternative.

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  Society

  2023-01-17

  Herat drug addicts seek help in cold winter

  Around 70,000 addicts live in Herat, 20% of whom are women and children. Many homeless addicts say they yearn for treatment and shelter.

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  Society

  2022-10-17

  Baghlan filmmakers work to revive decades-old film industry

  Cinema and theatre have a positive impact on society -- shaping people's perspectives and changing ideologies, psychologists say.

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  Society

  2022-07-25

  Suicide rates rise in Afghanistan amid poverty, unemployment

  Thousands of Afghans have lost their jobs over the past year, and the closure of schools has forced millions of Afghan girls to stay home. The result is a toxic mixture of desperation.

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  Society

  2022-07-21

  Band-e-Amir National Park draws throngs of Afghans seeking to escape summer heat

  In addition to providing respite from life's daily struggles, the park can strengthen national unity by enabling Afghans from different provinces to encounter each other, said one visitor.

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  Society

  2022-07-19

  Marginalised for long, Jogis struggle to survive in Jawzjan province

  Members of the Jogi semi-nomadic community in Afghanistan often lack national identity cards (tazkiras), which limits their access to vital services.

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  Society

  2022-06-15

  Poverty forces 70 Afghan couples to marry in mass wedding

  Historically, couples from families unable to foot the bill have sometimes opted to pool their resources in low-cost large scale marriages.

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  Society

  2022-02-21

  Desperate Afghans sell own kidneys amid worsening hardship

  With no job prospects and nothing to eat, some Afghans have made the life altering decision to sell a kidney to make ends meet.

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  Society

  2021-12-02

  Pakistan offers to host OIC meeting on Afghanistan as crisis looms

  The proposed meeting on December 17 in Islamabad will be likely be the biggest international gathering on Afghanistan since the fall of the previous government.

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  Society

  2021-11-12

  Deprivation forces Afghans to make devastating decision to sell daughters

  Amid growing hunger and no public services after the fall of the previous government, Afghans displaced by war describe selling their young girls to save the rest of their family from starvation.