afghanistan

‘Used and thrown’

Nepali guards who protected British forces in Afghanistan still face unemployment and threat of deportation

Jenna Mae Biedscheid

No country for young men

Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as the country reeled...

Shristi Karki

Sino-Nepal ties in the ‘post-Afghan' era

The MCC debate in Nepal must be seen in the context of Asia’s restructured geopolitics

A short walk up the Panjshir

Kids playing on rusted tanks abandoned by the retreating Russians, war debris comfortably incorporated into stone walls to contain sheep and goats,...

Lisa Choegyal

Afghans in Nepal await resettlement

Ever since the most recent Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, they had been fleeing Kandahar and Kabul to Kathmandu in the hope of third-country asylum. ...

“I may not be alive by the time I am evacuated”

Steven Butler describes it as “mass panic.” As the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator has been fielding “hundreds...

Nepal and the Taliban’s second coming

Even though Nepal and Afghanistan are separated geographically, Nepali and Pashtun warriors have met face-to-face over more than 200 years. While the...

Nepali repatriation from Kabul starts

Although Nepali security guards at Western embassies in Kabul have been evacuated and some have arrived in Kathmandu, there are thousands of...

Call to evacuate Afghan journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and other media freedom organisations have called on the United States to do more to protect...

“Bring us home,” says Nepali in Kabul

There are anywhere between 2,000-15,000 Nepalis in Afghanistan — most of them working for private military contractors as security guards.But there are also others...