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With all the grim stories and news we see coming out of Afghanistan, I’m sure you’ll already have an idea of what life there must be like – violent, repressive, fearful. Right? Well, think again, it’s time to challenge your preconceptions… While some women around the world were getting praise for […]

The attacks of September 11th, 2001 did not result in an immediate substantive alteration to the lives of most people in the world. It is difficult to find something positive to say about the following years of harsh reaction to this event; years which have brought far greater changes to […]

My story about 9/11 starts quite similar to my colleague’s one from Pakistan. I had just returned home from school when I saw the plane hitting the tower on TV. After shock had passed, sympathy and solidarity toward with Americans were dominant feelings for my family, friends and generally for all […]

Just like  other Middle Eastern people, the people of South Asian region – especially of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and  India – dream of being rich and setting up in some developed country preferably in North America or Europe. The only difference is that the situation becomes worse when most people […]

Afghanistan is an arena in which the global political conflicts of the 21st century are all written large. Does this benefit the country? Building a new state in Afghanistan is the first democratic state-building project undertaken by Europeans outside of their own continent. Former colonial powers such as Germany, France, […]