Every year Nasruddin’s day is celebrated in Turkey with great pomp and show. The age in which he lived is not exactly known. There are even doubts about the country of his birth. Iranians claim that he was from Iran. The Turks have their own claim. The latest claim is that of the Russians who say that he was…

1. When you have a shoe thrown at you by your mother
2. When your family goes on a picnic every Sunday
3. When everybody is a singer in your family…..

Siddiq Barmak was born in Panjshir, Afghanistan, on September 7, 1962. He got his M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow film institut (VGIK) in the year 1987. He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films and also his first feature film “Osama”…

“Iranian officials have foiled a major human trafficking attempt by detaining 121 Afghan nationals who had illegally entered the country, IRNA reported Sunday, quoting authorities…”

Farida Nekzad is a journalist and managing editor of Pajhwak, an independent news agency in Afghanistan. Pajhwak reaches Afghans through over 50 radio and independent television stations, providing daily news reports on local and regional issues…

[ May 6, 2009; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. May 7, 2009; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Just 24 years old, journalist, translator, and coordinator Ajmal Naqshbandi was one of Afghanistan’s best “fixers”-people who help foreign media negotiate the treacherous landscape of personalities…