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Roya Heydari for Insider A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform. As tastemakers, they re offering a fresh point of view on what it means to be Afghan in 2021. A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media. Digital natives as much as any young person in Istanbul or Los Angeles, they are doing more than shaping what s cool in Afghanistan. Over Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, these influencers are proving they are more than the post 9/11 generation, as they ve been labeled for 20 years. Afghanistan is what ....
Iran Offers to Act as Mediator between the Taliban, Afghan Government Arshad Mehmood 02/01/2021 The insurgent Islamist group denies Western states’ accusations it is ‘continuing the war and killing civilians and destroying infrastructure’ [Islamabad] “Iran is ready to facilitate negotiations between the Taliban, the Afghan government and other Afghan groups,” The Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a visiting Taliban delegation in Tehran on Sunday. “The noble people of Afghanistan have been wronged. The war and occupation of Afghanistan have dealt heavy blows to the Afghan people,” Zarif told the high-level delegation led by Taliban deputy political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement. ....
ORF Special Report No. 125, December 2020, Observer Research Foundation.
This special report was written before the 2020 United States presidential elections. Under the incoming Biden administration, the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is likely to be more gradual and “responsible”, despite the President-elect being in favour of American troops exiting the war-weary country soon. In retrospect, Donald Trump’s insistence on pulling out all US troops from Afghanistan by Christmas 2020 was not misguided, since there is little that such military presence can achieve at this stage of the war. The situation is sealed by some neighbouring nations acting as spoilers in the peace process, impeding American efforts to help bring stability to Afghanistan. ....