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The Taliban has banned aid organizations from photographing women during aid distribution to earthquake victims, citing cultural sensitivities. This restriction, along with a lack of female healthcare workers, is hindering aid efforts. 🚫📸 #Taliban #Afghanistan #Earthquake #AidRestrictions

Taliban Warns Aid Workers: No Photos of Women Allowed

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A girl looks on among Afghan women lining up to receive relief assistance, during the holy month of Ramadan in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, June 11, 2017.

Source:  REUTERS/Parwiz

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Children play cricket in a village of Achin district in Nangarhar. The foothills of the Spin Ghar mountains where the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is defined through the Durand Line are seen in the background. #Nangarhar #Afghanistan Photo & text by Kaveh Rostamkhani @kavehjan | November 2021. #everydayafghanistan #monochrome #blackandwhite #everydayeverywhere #sports #cricket #children #everydayasia #photojournalism #dailylife #landscape #everydaynangarhar #archive #bnwphotography #reportagespotlight #bw (at Nangarhar Province) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcxqpQaNwnH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Roadside Scene near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1978.

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Remembering Uncle Murad

By Farhad Azad 

The mural for the late Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura includes a line from the mystic poet Rumi:

In this soil, in this soil In this pure land Except for affection, expect for love We should sow no other seed - Rumi

در این خاک در این خاک در این مزرعه پاک به جز مهر به جز عشق دگر تخم نکاریم جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى -

From antiquity, this region has given birth to poetic philosophers. They passed noble guidance for those who cared to listen. 

[caption: Dr. Nakamura’s mural in Kabul]

Yet in modern times, their verses seem to be ignored more so by havoc-makers. For some time now, the hallmark for this country is to eliminate one who does good.

In December 2019, on a morning commute, Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura and his team members died— showered by a rain of bullets fired at their car. Afghans throughout the country mourned his death. The culprits have yet to be found. 

Dr. Nakamura’s efforts began in the early 1980s. He built clinics for Afghan refugees in Peshawar during the Soviet occupation. Learning Pashto, the doctor integrated with the population he served. Locals affectionately called him Uncle Murad. In 2008, he began work in Eastern Afghanistan by not only providing medical services. He saw a bigger problem. 

In his last interview with Japan’s national broadcasting organization, Dr. Nakamura said, “Starvation, drought. Medicine can’t solve these problems. We realized that we needed to go beyond the narrow field of medicine and work to ensure that people had enough food and water.”

He used 200-year-old canal-building techniques from his home region in Japan. At the time of his murder, his canals in Nangarhar province irrigated over 60,000 acres of barren land and served close to a million people. 

Today, the work of Dr. Nakamura survives along with murals on the walls of Kabul.

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My heart bleeds. Afghanistan is already suffering from diseases, other health conditions, the remains of the war, constant killings and bombings and now they are fighting against coronavirus. Innocent women, children and health care workers killed in a maternity ward in Kabul, and men killed in the gathering of a funeral💔💔💔💔 yesterday was International Nurses Day and nurses were also killed in yesterday’s Kabul attack in a women’s maternity ward hospital.

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‘He Showed Us Life’: Japanese Doctor Who Brought Water to Afghans Is Killed

Tetsu Nakamura, 73, arrived in Afghanistan in the 1980s to treat leprosy. But he changed many more lives with the canal-building techniques he brought from his native Japan.

Tetsu Nakamura, 73, arrived in Afghanistan in the 1980s to treat leprosy. But he changed many more lives with the canal-building techniques he brought from his native Japan.

The Afghan authorities in Nangarhar said, by the time of his murder his canals had improved the livelihood of nearly a million people, and irrigated nearly 60,000 acres of previously arid land.

“A doctor treats patients one by one, but this helps a whole village,” Dr. Nakamura had said. “I love seeing a village that’s been brought back to life.”

“He showed us life — he helped build our land. He was a leader to us,” said Hamidullah Hashemi, a resident of Khewa. “I feel like they have killed my closest family member. They left us without Nakamura.”

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Village informed officials of harvest season weeks in advance.

On Wednesday night, US forces carried out their latest disastrous air strike in Afghanistan. A US drone attacked and killed at least 30 civilians, and wounded 40 others in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. The victims of the attack were farm workers who were participating in the harvest of pine nuts in a village's forest, and a number of children who were also there to take part in the harvest. What adds insult to injury, however, was that the village elders had foreseen this as an issue, and specifically sent letters around to officials two weeks ago. The letters, dated September 7, were meant to assure that the gathering on the outskirts of the forest was nothing to do with militants, and was merely hired laborers for the harvest. They were assured this was not a problem.