Ankle-deep in mud and slush, a woman named Farzana, 32, squats and scrubs clothes in a bucket. open image in gallery Farzana, 32, washes clothes in front of her mud-walled home in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Kabul According to the World Food Programme, nearly 20 million people face acute food shortages this winter and 6 …
The spacious ballroom glitters with lights. But on this chilly December evening, in the ladies’ hall of the newly opened White Palace wedding hotel, several hundred Cinderellas are free to pirouette, compare hairdos and briefly leave behind the restrictions of Taliban rule that had disrupted their plans for college or careers, and left them brooding at home. “We can forget …
