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Ezzatullah Mehrdad
Ezzatullah Mehrdad

Amid the spectre of suicide bombings and raging combat, Afghans are cheering on their internationally competitive cricket and futsal teams – and the promise of a career in sports is also a rare beacon of hope.

Before 2001, the fundamentalist Islamic movement ruled Afghanistan with a brutal interpretation of sharia law. Now that peace could bring the group back into the political fold, young adults dread what that might mean

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Breshna started working at age six to support herself after her parents died, but Dr Wee Teck Young’s non-profit organisation in Kabul has given her – and many others like her – respite, food and a future

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