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Condé Nast Traveller India
April 13, 2018
A touching story of an Afghan man, Amir, who comes back to his homeland from the US to help his childhood friend, Hassan, the film received innumerable accolades, just like the book. Spend your Saturday night watching this heart-wrenching story of friendship and life in Afghanistan and after. Book yourÃâà...
The Daily Star
April 12, 2018
Afghan district governor among 7 killed in Taliban attack: officials. Afghan men stand over dead bodies at the site of an attack by Taliban militants on a government compound in the Khwaja Omari district in the southeastern province of Ghazni on April 12, 2018. / AFP / ZAKERIA HASHIMI. RSS; Follow; EmailÃâà...
Outlook India
April 6, 2018
New Delhi, Apr 6 An Afghan national has been apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly using a fake travel ticket to enter the terminal area, official sources said. Mohammed Bashir S was apprehended yesterday when CISF personnel found him walking inside Terminal-3 (T3) building of the IndiraÃâà...
Economic Times
March 29, 2018
Old Afghan men looking to soothe their aching joints or enrich their rice dishes stand around a tiny shop where they are lulled by a camel's steady steps as sesame oil flows into a plastic bucket. The traditional industry in northern Afghanistan is the domain of ethnic Turkmen, though its origins seem unclear.
India Today
March 28, 2018
A 37-year-old woman from Kazakhstan has leveled charges of gang rape and unnatural sex on two Afghanis, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused - identified as Jamshed Khan, 34, and Zarmal Khan, 40 - have been arrested. Both of them were residents of city's Ballimaran locality. "The victimÃâà...
Arab News
March 21, 2018
KABUL: When Hamid Samar announced two positions for TV presenters for a female program in Afghanistan's eastern Jalalabad city over a year ago, only two women applied for the job. Both had one key condition; while presenting the program they would only appear in “chadari,” the all-enveloping burqaÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
A prosecutor says a man accused of ramming his vehicle into an Afghan man near the Oregon coast was driven by bias. March 20 ... (AP) — An Oregon prosecutor says bias motivated a man to deliberately ram his car into an Afghan man who had served as a U.S. military interpreter, severely injuring him.
The Register-Guard
March 20, 2018
PORTLAND — An Oregon prosecutor says in a new court filing that a motorist was driven by bias when he deliberately rammed his vehicle into a man who moved to the United States from Afghanistan after serving as an interpreter for the U.S. military. Lincoln County Deputy District Attorney R. Lynn HowardÃâà...
NewsBytes
March 17, 2018
Want to know just how popular American President Donald Trump is? An Afghan man has named his son after the billionaire, hoping that he'd replicate the staggering success of arguably the most controversial world leader today. Despite being ostracized, called an infidel, forced to move cities, and facingÃâà...
BreakingNews.ie
March 15, 2018
An Afghan man has received death threats and been forced to move house after naming his son Donald Trump. When Asadullah Poya's wife gave birth to their third child in a tiny village in rural Afghanistan, he immediately thought of the then presidential hopeful. He had just read a Dari translation of whatÃâà...
Gulf Times
March 8, 2018
An Afghan man who arranged for the travel of more than 200 refugees and asylum seekers by boat to Western Australia, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail. Sayed Abbas, 35, was pivotal in organising the transport of the asylum seekers coming from Indonesia on three overcrowded boats in 2009 andÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 8, 2018
BERLIN: An Afghan man admitted to stabbing and severely injuring a family of three and a 20-year-old compatriot in Vienna because “he was in a bad, aggressive mood and upset about his life's situation,” Austrian police said on Thursday. Police said in a statement that the 23-year-old said he committedÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 8, 2018
Austrian authorities say a 23-year-old Afghan man has admitted stabbing and severely injuring four people in Vienna because he was "upset about his life's situation." Police said on March 8 that the suspect, whose name was not made public, acknowledged the stabbings of a 20-year-old Afghan maleÃâà...
The Local Switzerland
March 2, 2018
A young Afghan man was arrested in Bern on Friday following a bomb threat near the city's train station and the discovery of "suspicious objects" in a nearby church, local police said. Shortly after 1:30pm ... "Initial information has identified him as an Afghan man," police spokesman Ramona Mock told AFP.
Xinhua
March 1, 2018
File Photo: An Afghan man works at a local aluminum factory in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Dec. 19, 2016. (Xinhua/Rahman Safi). In April last year, Trump ordered the Commerce Department to study the impact of steel and aluminum imports on national security under seldom-used section 232 of theÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
February 20, 2018
Afghan men dance on the streets of Kabul celebrating the first day of Eid-al-Fitr. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images). Afghan men dance on the streets of Kabul celebrating the first day of Eid-al-Fitr. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images). Previous; Next. Last year Ramazan, a 60-year-old drummer, wasÃâà...
Racked
February 13, 2018
An average young Afghan man could spend up to 1,000 Afghan afghani ($15) during one visit for services. Hair salons like Jawad's that provide ... Not too long ago, the Taliban regime that controlled Afghanistan imposed sharia-compliant haircuts and long beards on Afghan men. “Those in violation wereÃâà...
Kathimerini
February 9, 2018
Police in Athens believe that an Afghan man arrested on unrelated charges may be responsible for the December 15 murder of a 71-year-old shepherd in Koropi, eastern Attica. The victim had been shot in the head with a hunting rifle and was found dead in a sheep pen he had rented in the area.
Deutsche Welle
February 9, 2018
An Afghan man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman because she had converted to Christianity. The court recognized a 'very high degree of culpability' in handing down its decision. The defense lawyer and the accused in court (picture-alliance/dpa/M. A court in the southern German cityÃâà...
PRI
January 31, 2018
Afghan men carry the coffin of one of the victims of a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2018. Credit: Omar Sobhani/Reuters. January has been a particularly deadly month in Kabul. Terrorist attacks have taken the lives of hundreds of people in the Afghan capital. One of the deadliest was whenÃâà...
CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
December 31, 1999
KABUL -- When Asadullah Poya's wife gave birth to their third child in a tiny village in rural Afghanistan, he immediately thought of Donald Trump. Not Donald Trump the upstart politician, who at that time was in the thick of the 2016 presidential campaign, but Donald Trump the celebrity businessman.
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
KABUL (AFP) - An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taleban made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting dead seven of them and wounding 18 others, officials said on Thursday (March 15). Mr Awal Khan and a local police officer were kidnapped on WednesdayÃâà...
Independent.ie
December 31, 1999
Afghan man forced to move house after naming son Donald Trump. Asadullah Poya has been ostracised for breaking with Islamic tradition in naming his child after the US leader. Afghanistan Baby Trump 1 Afghanistan Baby Trump. By Amir Shah. March 15 2018 6:41 PM. 0 CommentsÃâà...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
An Afghan man and children play with a kite on a rooftop overlooking Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, on February 23rd, 2018. (Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images). Tags; terms: UNICEFThe Week In PhotosDieselWinter OlympicsViewfinderProtest Ãâ÷ Pacific Standard Staff. By. Pacific Standard Staff.
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
The crown prince was touched by the man's loyalty to the late Sheikh Zayed and the UAE. (Twitter). Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Friday, 23 February 2018. Text size A A A. After an Afghan carpet seller in the UAE refused to sell a picture of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Nahyan, “Baba Zayed,” as a symbol ofÃâà...
Times Now
December 31, 1999
Masood Mohammed Yaqub came to India as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2013 for a better life and settled down in Delhi with his wife and children. Afghan man and his journey to track down his cheating wife. Photo Courtesy: Thinkstock. Representative Image. Hyderabad: What happens when a manÃâà...
