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Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Public DomainIt was a little over two weeks since Mohammad Ali Raihani, 28, a student of engineering at Kabul University, had started a day job to provide for his brother and sister while he studied. On Jan. 6, an explosion ripped through the minibus taking him to the printing press where he worked, killing him and six others.“He studied at night so he could work during the day and support the family. He was our only breadwinner

One year after the fall of Kabul, many of the opposition commanders famous for their stand in Panjshir Valley remain exiled in Tajikistan. Analysts paint a picture of a weak armed resistance against…

One year after the fall of Kabul, many of the opposition commanders famous for their stand in Panjshir Valley remain exiled in Tajikis

By MARTY LEVINE Pitt’s new Afghanistan Project has already become a home for one scholar whose family fled the current turmoil in that country; recently welcomed a new Afghan student stranded in the U.S. during her Fulbright Scholarship study; and is hoping to bring that student’s father, a prominent political scientist, to Pitt — since he has just been released from jail

“I’m going like gangbusters, trying to get support for this because people will forget about Afghanistan, I fear,” she said.