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Afghan ONLY Matrimony Service

Salam everyone,

I am pleased to announce of an Afghan only matrimonial service that is available for Afghans.

This is a free service that I will be providing as there currently is not any marriage services that cater to Afghans.

How it works: Users create a profile and can view profiles. If you see a profile that interests you, you can directly message them to get to know eachother In Sha Allah for sake of marriage. You do need a telegram to be able to join this group. You are not allowed to comment or reply to another profile, you simply have to message them directly. Replies to profiles will be removed and you will be asked to message the individual profile you are interested in directly.

Please feel free to join: https://t.me/+nB20sH__1TRhYTUx

Please note any haram, inappropriate or bad behaviour will not be tolerated. This is a marriage oriented service and any offensive, harassment or abusive conduct will not be tolerated. This is a group strictly for Afghans (doesn’t matter if you are Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara or any other ethnic group of Afghanistan) you are welcome to join as long as you are Afghan.

Please feel free to share this with anyone who maybe interested in joining! The more profiles the more opportunities for us to facilitate marriage in sha Allah.

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2024/05/19
02:23 UTC

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report profiling women's advocates & their efforts in Afghanistan

‘Unstoppable Women’: The Afghan Women’s Movement

Afghan journalist Fatima Faizi and artist Shehzil Malik’s coproduced illustrated reportage features interviews from four advocates across the movement speaking out on behalf of millions who cannot, women who are calling for solidarity with their unstoppable resistance – and international action.

Afghan women continue to defy the DFA in whatever way they can. They are confronting gun-carrying Taliban on the streets, forming networked movements across the country, advocating from seats at the Human Rights Council and UN Security Council, establishing alternative education organizations, launching new entrepreneurial businesses, sharing stories and art online and, wherever possible, carrying out direct negotiations with the DFA, despite its edicts prohibiting them from even moving without a male mahram.

https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/ap-cx-en-unstoppable-women-r02-2024.pdf

https://preview.redd.it/y4vpf67hx81d1.jpg?width=804&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33cd60636feac0fef4e5dfd0f572b8a3477ed549

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2024/05/18
20:40 UTC

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At Least 4 Killed In Attack On Foreign Tourists In Afghanistan

This happened to an organized tour for foreigner. Just so sad.

https://www.rferl.org/amp/afghanistan-foreign-nationals-killed-attack/32951861.html

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2024/05/18
08:55 UTC

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Accurate Ethnic Groups Map

I'm currently working on a personal project, I love Afghanistan's culture and geography and I want to learn more about the country itself. I'm doing a "book" for myself including all the facts I can get from religion, history, languages, fauna, people, etc.

I was researching on Afghanistan ethnic groups and I want to add a map for better reference, but every map online is either outdated or filled with missinformation. Does anyone know if there is an accurate map of Afghanistan that shows the ethnic compositions of the country? (including minor groups like Aimaq, Baluch, Turkmen, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat, Mongol, etc.)

  • if anyone knows of a website/book that can help me with my overall research of the country, I would be thankful :)

I am a student from Costa Rica and there is practically 0 knowledge of Afghanistan in my country so I established as an objective to learn as much as I can from your culture and documenting it for myself.

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2024/05/17
04:22 UTC

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Was the Khalq Faction affiliated with Mojahidine- e-khalq of Iran?

Was the Khalq Faction affiliated in anyway with the Mujahidine-e-Khalq (people's holy warriors of Iran). Did the two groups support each other? The latter openly stated that it wanted to wipe out the akhoonds as a class. Something the khalq Faction also tried.

Both countries had revolutions at around the same time, so it sees odd, that there would have been no communication between them given that they spea the same language . The Sardar's murder was probably an infunce on the Aryamehr's choice t o flee than fight.

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2024/05/17
09:12 UTC

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Afghanistan floods: ‘I found my family's bodies in the streets’

Flash floods hit on Friday, caused by a combination of unusually heavy storms following a dry winter, which has left the ground too hard to absorb all the rain. The destruction stretches for miles.

The World Food Programme says more than 300 people have died and 2,000 homes destroyed in the flooding, which affected five districts in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan. The number of casualties is expected to rise.

The provinces of Badakhshan, Ghor and western Herat were also severely damaged.

The day after the flood waters hit, Noor Mohammed found the bodies of his family in the street and in the fields.

The 75-year-old had been just 100m away from his home in northern Afghanistan when he heard the deadly roar of water approaching.

Noor ran towards the house where his wife, sister, son and two of his grandchildren were resting.

But it was too late.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-69017511

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2024/05/16
13:34 UTC

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Afghanistan Mythology

Hi! I've recently begun a little personal endeavor to learn about mythology from as many countries as possible. I decided to start in alphabetical order and branch out from there; this puts Afghanistan at the top of the list. I'm here looking for Afghanistan myths, the more culturally significant the better. But more specifically I'm looking for books. I love to read and any texts that are authentic to the mythology and culture are appreciated! I'll take books on specific myths or Afghanistan mythology as a whole. Thanks in advance!

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2024/05/13
22:58 UTC

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Looking to cook traditional food from all over the world. What would you recommend from Afghanistan?

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2024/05/13
17:01 UTC

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Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women

MAY 8, 2024

"We will flog the women ... we will stone them to death in public [for crimes]," said Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader, in an audio message issued on March 24.

Akhundzada – who hasn't been seen in public in a decade – reiterated the group's previous stance on public floggings and stonings, particularly against women.

The audio statement, broadcast on Afghanistan's state radio and television networks, appeared to be directed at the Western and democratic governments that frequently criticize Taliban policies.

More from NPR's Goats and Soda:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/08/1242306960/taliban-affirms-that-stoning-will-be-punishment-for-adulterers-especially-women

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2024/05/10
02:26 UTC

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Sports

How big is buzkashi in Afghanistan and do you have to own a horse to play? I know they have koresh and something similar to Greco-Roman wrestling but have they ever considered just getting involved in judo or wrestling at the Olympic level? What other sports or physical activities are popular here?

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2024/05/08
14:23 UTC

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Are Afgans as poor as Africans and Cambodians?

We all know that Afghanistan is a third world country. But there are levels of third world country like Iran and Jordan are third world countries but are still doing better living standards wise than Syria or Sudan.

Does Afghanistan have the same levels of poverty as Congo or Cambodia? https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/280720-stock-video-cambodia-slums-phnom-penh this is a video of a slum in Cambodia these people have no running water electricity or shoes. They've probably never seen an overweight person in their life. Is that how most Afghans live?

I ask because on the one hand I read constantly that mist Qfghans live in villages "isolated from the outside world " where "life hasn't change much since the middle ages". Yet I also read that the taliban banning Facebook will stop "most Afghans " from communicating with the outside world and each other. I keep reading these contradictions like on the one hand everyone buys their wife a wedding ring but also that many families can't afford to buy a burka their daughters so they are trapped inside.

Now it's possible that everyone in the cities has electricity running water etc but the villages don't and most urban volk don't know any rural people. Like if the taliban bans Facebook how many Afghans will really be affected? Most Africans and Cambodians don't have electricity do most Afghans live like that? Dose the average Afghan earn a pound a day? Like I don't think I've ever seen footage of people walking through the streets barefoot because they couldn't afford shoes which is common in Congo and Cambodia

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2024/05/06
08:26 UTC

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