Tag: #afghanistan
Articles tagged with #afghanistan
‘Used and thrown’
Nepali guards who protected British forces in Afghanistan still face unemployment and threat of deportation
No country for young men
Photo: SHANKAR DAHALNepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as…
Sino-Nepal ties in the ‘post-Afghan' era
The MCC debate in Nepal must be seen in the context of Asia’s restructured geopolitics
A short walk up the Panjshir
Mujahideen guides took us to the northernmost part of the Panjshir Valley. All photos: LISA CHOEGYALKids playing on rusted tanks abandoned by…
Afghans in Nepal await resettlement
(From right) Mohamad Arif Ahamadi, his wife Safika and sons Siar and Zuber. Photos: MUKESH POKHRELEver since the most recent Taliban takeover in…
“I may not be alive by the time I am evacuated”
TOLOnews female presenter Beheshta Arghand interviewing Taliban spokesperson Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad on 17 August. Photo: TOLONewsSteven Butler…
Nepal and the Taliban’s second coming
The 2nd Battalion 5th Gurkha Rifles at Ahnai Tangi in Waziristan on 14 January 1920 as part of Britain's 'Third Afghan War'. Painting by Fred…
Nepali repatriation from Kabul starts
118 Nepalis arrived in Kathmandu from Afghanistan via Kabul on Tuesday.Although Nepali security guards at Western embassies in Kabul have been…
Call to evacuate Afghan journalists
A Taliban fighter stands guard at the main gate leading to the Afghan presidential palace. Photo: Associated Press/ Rahmat GulThe Committee to…
“Bring us home,” says Nepali in Kabul
Photo: RSSThere are anywhere between 2,000-15,000 Nepalis in Afghanistan — most of them working for private military contractors as security…
Who will rescue Nepalis from Afghanistan?
Ex-Nepal Army soldier Dhan Singh Dhami worked for a US defence contractor guarding the American Embassy in Kabul and assisted NATO forces in…
Farewell, Danish
Danish Siddiqui 1983-2021Ten years ago, some of us young photojournalists got recruited by Reuters news agency, and were all flown to Bangkok…
Giving start-ups a head start
About 250 years ago when King Prithivi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of unified Nepal, he realised that the city had great potential…
Canada settlement with families of Nepali guards
Bodies of the 13 Nepali security guards after they were flown home in 2016 who were killed during a Taliban attack on the Canadian Embassy in…
High-risk remittance
Photo: UPASANA KHADKAThe Nepal government knows how much this country is dependent on remittances from Nepalis working abroad. It pays the…
Remembering IC814
India Airlines Airbus300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport.The world was waiting with bated breath for all…
The Lumba Sumba Passage
Trekking is evolving fast on once remote east Nepal routes
A personal encyclopaedia of the Himalaya
Photo: PETER DEANIf there is one book you must set aside, either for new year holiday reading or as a Christmas gift to a fellow traveller, it…
2019 shortlist announced for DSC Prize
Harish Trivedi, Jury Chair of the DSC Prize 2019, at the Shortlist Announcement event in LondonThe 2019 shortlist of books for the annual DSC…
Film Southasia 2019
Film Southasia is held every two years, and in 2019 the theme of the festival of documentary films says it all: ‘Where the Mind Is Free’.…
Piecing together Afghanistan’s Bamyan Buddhas
Waiting for the end of war to restore giant figure of the prince of peace
Polio hunt
Photo: UNICEFPolio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World…
Kathmandu's Little Kabul
Mohammed Daoud's family paid an agent $6,000 to get to Kathmandu. Photos: GOPAL GARTAULAWhen Mohammed Daoud fled Afghanistan in 2014, he did not…
Nepali guards sue Canada government
Family members went to the Tribhuvan International Airport in June 2016 to collect the corpses of the Nepalis killed in Afghanistan. Widows of…