Migration of an individual or a group occurs as result aggravating socio-economical, politic security-based conditions. isn’t simply pickup-and-go process, but it comes with some challenges and opportunities for both migrants relevant countries. Ongoing war conflicts five decades in Afghanistan have forced Afghans to emigrate at various times. But this unplanned migration movements seemed creat...

Abstract With the beginning of a partial modernisation in Afghanistan late 19th century there emerged pattern opposition to this process. Often described as traditionalism it aimed not only at maintaining status quo but had demodernising twist seeking establishment an alternative socio-political order pursuing demodernisation dressed traditionalist Islamic or tribal rhetoric undermining traditi...

This article presents and discusses data from two research methods on journalism in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover of power August 2021. News reports time intra-Afghan peace talks September 2020 were analyzed using Peace Journalism model. These found to be predominantly War Journalism, leaving audiences cognitively primed for violent conflict responses likely overlook or fail value ini...

Civic space, an imperative to a democratic society where citizens can exercise their basic rights, is now under attack in Afghanistan. The fall of the Islamic Emirate 2001 by coalition U.S.-led military intervention grounded rise vibrant environment for civil and human rights defenders (HRDs). Promoting safeguarding values, mainly freedom speech, assembly, association, enshrined within progress...

Due to an urgent need for information on the coverage of health service for women and children after the fall of Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) was conducted in 2003 using the outdated 1979 census as the sampling frame. When 2004 pre-census data became available, population-sampling weights were generated based on the survey-sampling scheme. Using thes...

We conducted a locomotor disability survey on a heavily mined Taliban-controlled province of Afghanistan to document the problem of locomotor disability and to assess the need for orthopaedic rehabilitation devices in a study population of 12065. Global prevalence of locomotor disability was 23/1000 (95% CI: 20-26). )War-related injuries were the leading cause of disability, affecting almost ex...

Central Asia is suddenly on the world map. Indeed, September 11 and the U.S. war against the Taliban and the al-Qaeda terror network in Afghanistan have drawn Central Asia from the periphery to near the center of that map. Policy makers forging strategies for Afghanistan have begun to realize that the entire vast region is plagued by increasingly weak states and regimes that are losing popular ...

BACKGROUND For over a decade, Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health and its international development partners have invested in strengthening the national health workforce and establishing a system of primary health care facilities and hospitals to reduce the high levels of maternal and child mortality that were documented shortly after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Significant progress ha...