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16 May 2009 - The district of Surkh-e-Parsa lies at the upper end of the Ghorband Valley, not far from where the road begins to climb the bare hills to the Shibar Pass.
KABUL - In an exclusive interview for UNAMA, the head of Afghanistan’s environmental agency calls for more trees to be planted in the country.
KABUL - Demining in the south and east of Afghanistan is taking on a new shape this year as different communities take on the task of demining their own districts.
KABUL - For more than forty years, Enayatullah Siddiqi has monitored the ballet of the planes from behind the windows of the control tower at Kabul airport.
For him, the history of his country is written on the milestones of civil aviation.
14 May 2009 - In May 1507 during a punitive raid into the plains south of Ghazni, the future Mughal Emperor Babur, describes how he and his horsemen took a day off from slaughtering rebellious Afghan tribesmen, to have a day’s hunting on the Dasht-e-Katawaz.
13 May 2009 - The United Nations World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to thousands of people in five provinces of Afghanistan.