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When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Shukria Sediqi knew her days in safety were numbered. As a journalist who advocated for women's rights, she'd visited shelters and safe houses to talk to women who had fled abusive husbands. She went with them to court when they asked for a divorce.

Worried about reprisals, many Afghans destroyed documents during the Taliban takeover. Now they need those documents to prove their case.

When the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021, it carried tens of thousands of Afghans to safety. But two years later, many others are still waiting to be resettled. Those are Afghans who helped the war effort by working with the U.S. government and military or Afghan journalists and aid workers whose former work puts them at risk under the Taliban.

PUL-I-KHUMARI (Pajhwok): One person was killed and four others were injured when their car plunged into a 50-meter deep ravine in Khanjan . . .

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Eight people were diagnosed with Congo fever in northern Baghlan province during the past seven months and three of them died . .

But the Afghan resistance movement is no match for the Taliban’s military might.

Afghanistan’s power utility company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) met with officials from Türkmenenergo State Electric Power Corporation to discuss technical aspects of the electricity transmission project to the Nur-ul-Jihad substation in Herat. According to DABS, officials focused on topics such as project surveys, document preparation, security, insurance and other technical considerations at the meeting.

Salang highway maintenance officials say that the building concrete toad inside the Salang tunnel will be completed in two months. Currently, vehicles are allowed to move through Salang highway only at nights. The head of Salang highway maintenance department says that 80 kilometers of road will be built from the Tajikan area of Jabal al-Sarraj

President Xi Jinping recently dispatched his deputy premier, He Lifeng, to Pakistan to unveil a new model of economic and strategic engagement. This comes just months after China announced its grand defense cooperation and development plan for the Central Asian Republics.

The acting head of Afghanistan Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVET) said on Tuesday during the department’s annual accountability report to the nation that Afghanistan is facing a shortage of skilled people in various fields, including mines and industry. According to Ghulam Haidar Shuhamat, the age limit for students at the facility was