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Afghan farmers turn their grapes into raisins after border closures slash fruit exports to Pakistan

  • Unable to export their fresh fruit, Afghan grape producers have turned to the domestic market, where the increased supply has sent prices tumbling
  • In 2025, five southern Afghan provinces that make up the country’s main grape-producing region exported 44,225 tonnes — $13.8 million worth of grapes
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Taliban regime has itself become a proxy trying to destabilize the region, Pakistan’s UN envoy tells Arab News

By Ephrem Kossaify ·

UK-based Afghan writer pleads for country’s ‘abandoned’ women

By AFP ·
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What has changed in Afghanistan five years after the Taliban’s return?

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Afghan women face grim future as aid cuts compound Taliban repression, UN envoy warns

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Taliban releases journalist Hamid Farhadi after 2 years

By Arab News ·

Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban: safer streets but pleas for jobs and education

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Half of Afghan women rarely leave home as Taliban restrictions deepen, UN agency says

By Reuters ·

UN says 2 staff arrested by Afghan intelligence agency

By AFP ·

2.4 million girls banned from Afghan schools since Taliban return: UNESCO

By AFP ·

Afghanistan seal 2027 World Cup berth, West Indies to go through qualifiers again

By Reuters ·

Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education

By AFP ·
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Afghanistan’s gold rush upends lives and landscapes

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