Keeping Afghanistan in the spotlight through the stories of its people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Talks about why people are moving out of there homes from Afghanistan
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THE ORIGINAL TRUE NEWS FROM AFGHANISTAN
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Hør stemmene til norske soldater når de forteller sine historier – om landet de kjempet i, fienden de møtte og kampene de stod i – tjue år med ørkenkrig. En serie om våre soldater og våre historier. Historien om: Afghanistan – en podkastserie fra Forsvaret. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wo eine alte Weltordnung zu Ende war, beginnt die dritte Staffel von "Killed in Action": bei 9/11. Welche Fehler passierten im Chaos der bis dahin einmaligen Situation vom 11. September 2001? Wie erlebten die Beteiligten diese Zeit und wie blicken sie heute darauf zurück, nach der erneuten Machtübernahme der Taliban? Christoph Heinzle und Kai Küstner gehen in "Killed in Action - Mission ohne Ziel" zurück zu den Anfängen. Sie werfen einen Blick auf die frühen Entscheidungen, darunter auch jen ...
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The speed of the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021 took the world by surprise. Now there is uncertainty and fear among many Afghans - what will Taliban rule look like? What will become of their country? The Taliban took control of Kabul just weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the event that led to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and the Taliban’s fall. It was hoped this would be a new beginning, bringing peace to a country that had known nothing but war ...
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Saad Mohseni: The extraordinary life of a media visionary who changed Afghanistan
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Saad Mohseni is the Chairman and CEO of Moby Group, and the author of 'Radio Free Afghanistan'. Born in London, raised in Kabul, Tokyo and Melbourne, Saad Mohseni has been one of the most influential figures in Afghanistan's recent history, transforming Afghanistan and its culture by revolutionising the country's media landscape. In this interview,…
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Gen H.R. McMaster: What does Trump 2.0 mean for Afghanistan?
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General H.R. McMaster served as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor for 14 months during his first term and he formulated America's South Asia Strategy, which Trump abandoned after McMaster's departure. In this interview, he discusses the implications of the second Trump presidency for the world, looks back at the failure in Afghanistan and wh…
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Sune Rasmussen: Afghanistan is a part of me
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Sune Engel Rasmussen is a Danish journalist and author who lived in Afghanistan, reporting extensively for several international outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. In this interview, we discuss his book Twenty Years, which offers an unique intimate insight into two decades of Western involvement in Afghanistan, told throug…
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Andrew North: My 20 years in Afghanistan
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Andrew North is an award-winning British journalist and former BBC correspondent in Afghanistan, Iraq, India, and the United States. He lived and reported from Afghanistan throughout two decades of international involvement and visited the country three times after the Taliban’s return, with his last visit resulting in his kidnapping by the group’s…
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Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen factions as a teenager. An ambush on Soviet forces, during which he was injured, and the discovery of a handwritten letter b…
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Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen factions as a teenager. An ambush on Soviet forces, during which he was injured, and the discovery of a handwritten letter b…
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Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village
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Sir William Patey is a retired British diplomat with extensive experience in Middle Eastern and South Asian geopolitics. He served as the UK Ambassador to Kabul from 2010 to 2012, following earlier roles as Ambassador to Sudan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. In this interview, he shares his insights and analysis on Afghanistan—discussing what went wrong, …
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Mark Urban: Ashraf Ghani was not enough of a bastard
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Mark Urban is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author of many books, including War in Afghanistan and The Skripal Files. He has covered Afghanistan extensively since the late 1980s, witnessing firsthand the withdrawal of Soviet forces, accompanying Ahmad Shah Massoud as he took Kabul in 1992, and other key events. In this intervi…
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Sir Laurie Bristow: Why did we get it so badly wrong for 20 years?
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Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK's last ambassador in Kabul, witnessed the disintegration of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban in August 2021. He is the author of Kabul: Final Call, which provides an insider's view of the events as they unfolded. In this interview, we discuss the book, Sir Laurie’s re…
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Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)
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Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empires,' among many others. In this interview, he talks about traveling around Afghanistan for the first time in 1971 and the …
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Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)
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Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empires,' among many others. In this interview, he talks about traveling around Afghanistan for the first time in 1971 and the …
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Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan
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Artemis Akbary is an LGBTIQ rights activist and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Afghan LGBT Organization (ALO), and a producer/presenter at Radio Ranginkaman. They have spoken and campaigned at various international gatherings about the plight of the LGBTIQ community in Afghanistan. In this moving interview, Artemis shares their person…
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Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)
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Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)
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Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanistan since he graduated in Afghan Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1985: as an East German (GDR) diplomat, including at the GDR Embassy in Kabul (1985-89), as political affairs officer for two United Nations missions in Afghanistan (2000-200…
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Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive
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Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan
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Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "The Buddhas of Bamiyan", a book that explores the long and complex history of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and their eventual destruction in 2001. Professor Morgan has written extensively on Afghanistan, and in this interview, he discusses hi…
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Franz-Michael Mellbin: Afghans were not good allies
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Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin is a former EU Special Representative and Danish ambassador in Afghanistan. He played a central role in the implementation of the Danish and EU efforts in Afghanistan, from September 11, 2001, until the evacuation from Kabul. He assisted the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations with the planning of US Afghanistan…
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Andrew Quilty: Kabul was my hometown
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Pashtana Durrani: Afghanistan is not accepting its daughters
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Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Pashtana Durrani is an Afghan human rights activist and the founder of LEARN Afghanistan, an NGO through which she runs undercover schools across the country. In this interview, she talks about her life and work. Her book, "Last to Eat, Last to Learn", is out now. 📺 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gwLgJY4l9Wk …
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Question Time: Your questions answered!
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In this first Q&A episode, I attempt to answer some of your questions... 🌏 Get 10% discount on your first month of BetterHelp. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy service with more over 34,000 professional therapists. ➼ BetterHelp.com/TheAfgPod Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. Producer: Roh Yakobi Music ©: Dawood Sarkhosh Emai…
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Zahra Nader: My mother begged schools to let me in
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Born in Bamiyan, Zahra Nader is an award-winning journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of Zan Times, a media outlet focused on women and marginalised communities in Afghanistan. In this interview, she talks about her childhood, her struggles as a refugee in Iran, her life in Kabul and Canada, her experiences, and her dreams for her outlet and herself,…
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Sima Samar: I have three strikes against me
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Die bittere Bilanz: Afghanistan ist wieder ein "Talibanistan" - die Extremisten kontrollieren das Land. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Woran sind Deutschland und die anderen Nationen nach einem optimistischen Start gescheitert? Und vor allem: Welche Fehler sollte man beim nächsten Auslandseinsatz vermeiden? Fragen, auf die nicht nur Robert Müller gern …
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Schon bald wird klar: die internationale Schutztruppe kann nicht in Kabul bleiben, wenn sie im Land für Sicherheit sorgen soll. Die Bundeswehr geht in den vermeintlich ruhigeren Norden, als „Bad Kundus“ wird ihr Standort anfangs verspottet. Doch der Schein trügt. Und überhaupt wird sichtbar, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft auf einer ganzen Rei…
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Körper auf Notstrom - Staffel 3 (3/5)
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"Wie eine Nebelwand" sei ihm Afghanistan zunächst vorgekommen, sagt der Kommandeur des ersten deutschen Kontingents in Kabul, Carl-Hubertus von Butler. Doch die Afghanen scheinen sich über die ausländischen Truppen zu freuen, feiern die Niederlage der Taliban euphorisch. Doch schon bald hat die Bundeswehr ihr erstes Schockerlebnis zu verkraften, So…
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Wir haben auf euch gewartet - Staffel 3 (2/5)
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In Deutschland sollten die Weichen für eine - diesmal friedliche - Zukunft in Afghanistan gestellt werden. Einige bezeichnen es im Nachhinein als „Ursünde“, dass auf der großen Konferenz in Bonn die Taliban nicht mit am Tisch saßen. Doch auch die jungen, demokratischen Kräfte degradierte man hier zu Nebendarstellern. Wurde schon hier und früh Afgha…
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Es war wie ein Blitz - Staffel 3 (1/5)
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Sein letzter Afghanistan-Einsatz liegt fast 20 Jahre zurück, und doch fragt Robert Müller sich jeden Tag: warum? Bis heute leidet der zurückgezogen in der Schweiz lebende Soldat an einer Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Er erwartet sich von der Politik Antworten, die er bis heute nicht bekommen hat: Was war das genaue Ziel des Einsatzes? Fragen…
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Craig Whitlock: America and the lies of the Afghan War
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Es geht weiter in "Killed in Action": In dieser dritten Staffel gehen Christoph Heinzle und Kai Küstner zurück an den Start, und den markieren die Anschläge auf das World Trade Center in New York 2001. Was passierte im Chaos der ersten Jahre des internationalen und vor allem des deutschen Afghanistan-Engagements?…
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Mir Tamim Ansary: I will never see Afghanistan again
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Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author who left Afghanistan in the early 1960s. He has written many books, including "West of Kabul, East of New York", "Games Without Rules", "Destiny Disrupted: A History of The World Through Islamic Eyes" and "The Invention of Tomorrow". In this interview he talks about his childhood in Afghanistan, his ext…
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Larisa Brown: The Gardner of Lashkar Gah
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Larisa Brown is a British journalist and author. She is currently the defence editor at The Times newspaper. In this interview, she talks about her book, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah, which tells the extraordinary story of Shaista Gul, a man who worked at a British military base in Helmand as a gardener, and his son, Jamal, who worked as an interpre…
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Tobias Ellwood: We should engage with the Taliban in Kabul
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Tobias Ellwood is a Conservative member of the British Parliament and a former chair of the House of Commons' Defence Select Committee. In July 2023, he visited Afghanistan, following which he called for engagement with the Taliban, causing an uproar, with many criticising his stance. As a result, he resigned as chair of the Defence Select Committe…
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Heather Barr: How dare we give up on Afghan women and girls
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Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She worked in Afghanistan for over a decade for the UN and Human Rights Watch. In this interview she reflects on her time in the country, her work and views on the current situation. 🌏 Get 10% discount on your first month of BetterHelp. BetterHelp is the world'…
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Wendy Chamberlain MP: There are concerns Afghanistan is growing the next generation of terrorists
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Johnny Mercer MP: Afghanistan is deeply intoxicating
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Johnny Mercer is Britain's Minister for Veterans' Affairs. He served three tours in Afghanistan as an army officer. In this interview, he talks about his time in Afghanistan, his views on the Taliban and the current situation in the country and stories of fighting the group in Helmand. Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. Producer: Roh Yakobi …
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David Loyn: Engagement has failed, the West should support alternatives to the Taliban
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Charlie Herbert: Persecution of the Hazaras is the untold story of Afghanistan
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Major General Charlie Herbert served multiple tours in Afghanistan and led British forces in Helmand province. He also served in other capacities, working with Afghan government ministries and leaders. In this interview, he shares his insights, thoughts, and stories about what happened during the 20-year Western involvement in the country and what …
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Stephan Jensen: I cried in an Oslo cafe when Kabul fell to the Taliban
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Stephan Jensen is a former Norwegian army officer who served in Afghanistan's northern provinces of Faryab and Balkh (Mazar-i-Sharif). Currently, he is working on a book detailing the history of the War in Afghanistan. In this interview, Jensen discusses his experiences during his time in the country, provides an analysis of what went wrong, and ex…
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Dr Habiba Sarabi: We must rely on our own abilities to change Afghanistan
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Jason Criss Howk: Time is running out for Afghanistan
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Jason Criss Howk has spent 21 years focused on Afghanistan in defence, diplomacy, academic, humanitarian, and intelligence roles. He is the director of Global Friends of Afghanistan, a frequently published writer, and guest lectures at American University and the USMC War College. Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. Producer: Roh Yakobi Music…
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Mohsin Dawar: Pashtuns who support the Taliban are harming Afghanistan
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Mohsin Dawar is a Pakistani politician who leads the political party called the National Democratic Movement. He previously served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 to August 2023. Dawar has been a staunch critic of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, accusing them of being proxies of the Pakistani military. In …
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Fawzia Koofi: My bags are still packed
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Fawzia Koofi has been a prominent figure in Afghanistan's politics and a women's rights activist. She served a member and the first female Deputy Speaker of parliament before the Taliban's recapture of the country. In this interview she talks about her childhood, life in politics, negotiating with the Taliban and leaving Afghanistan. Send us a Text…
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Refugees in Indonesia: Betrayed and forgotten
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Hussain Shah Rezai fled Afghanistan when he was a teenager almost ten years ago. He is one of over ten thousand refugees from Afghanistan stuck in appalling and inhumane conditions in Indonesia. In this episode, Hussain tells his and their story. Hussain on X: @HussainS_Rezaie Warning: This episode contains a discussion on mental health issues. If …
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Sir Laurie Bristow: We are utterly wrong to think Afghanistan's story is over
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Mozhdah Jamalzadah: I am a rebel and I can't be told to shut up
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Mozhdah Jamalzadah is a singer, actor and campaigner. In this interview, she talks about leaving Afghanistan as a young child, the challenges of settling in Canada, pursuing music, acting, working in Afghanistan, and her interest in politics. Subscribe/Support: https://bit.ly/3QhklBg Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. Producer: Roh Yakobi Mu…
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Levison Wood: Afghanistan has a special place in my heart
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Levison Wood is a British a writer, explorer and photographer. He first walked through Afghanistan in 2004 and then served as a soldier in southern Afghanistan. His latest book, Escape from Kabul, gives a riveting account of the fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban and the chaotic evacuation of Kabul in August 2021. Send us a Text Mess…
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Shakardokht Jafari: Not trying is the biggest sin
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Shakardokht (Shakar) is a medical physicist and multi award-winning innovator, based in the UK. Born in Afghanistan's central highlands of Hazarajat, Shakardokht became a refugee in Iran aged 6. Resisting repeated pressures to accept arranged marriages as a schoolgirl, she studied hard and managed to enter the Tehran University. In 2010, she arrive…
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Brave NRF Forces On The Mighty Hindukush
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Brave Afghan Women Standing Firm Against Terrorists Taliban
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