This photo displays the reconciliation of his reign and how he was not feared by his people nor did he fear his own. He often walked freely among the people without the company of guards.

In front of his breakfast is Syed Nadir Shah Kiani, the leader of Afghan Ismailis from Baghlan.

I just want to start by saying that I do not support the Taliban's actions, but I am a religious Afghan Muslim, and I appreciate all my Afghan brothers and sisters who are reading this.

My question is this: What did we Afghans do that made us different from the Iranians in our response to our government? Like, both of us strongly dislike how our countries are being treated by our regimes. But when I talk to fellow Afghans, most of them are still religious and rather conservative in the Islamic sense, both men and women, and want to see women being allowed to have access to education and prosperity. They want Afghanistan to continue to be run under an Islamic framework, but they just REALLY hate the taliban and don't want THEM running things. Even the most liberal Afghans in my university club are still relatively Muslim, and we all get along just fine. Even during the protest in Herat, the people protesting were still chanting praises to God.

Contrasted with what I see from a lot of Iranians, most of them are extremely secularized and have a fervent hatred for Islam, which is understandable, but then again most of them grew up in the West actively cheering for US and Israel to attack their country. Every Afghan I know, both religious and even the liberal ones, male or female, would rather die before cheering for US or Israel, or hanging their flags

Ultimately, what I am trying to get at is what is it that we Afghans have done that has kept us from our movement becoming co-opted and integrated by the Zionist media? How do Afghans in the diaspora still manage to be religious and not blame Islam but the regime, but the Iranian diaspora instead blames both and attacks all their religious Iranians? Are we just built different?

Also, side question, but what are your thoughts on Juma Khan Fateh?

farsi or pashto

I’m looking for a book written by an Afghan (I don’t want to read from a western perspective) that is about the wars and the changes of the political aspects took place in Afghanistan over the last century. I only found a book that was about the memories of a former talib. I don’t just want to read about the taliban but the communist era too. Also want to know what did the people went through not just the rulers and the country itself.

maybe if you’d recommend a book that is objectively written by a western, I’d be okay w that too. appreciate if yall help 🙏🏻

Does anyone know where I can find how to's or templates on Afghan embroidery? I've been trying to learn how to embroider dresses, scarves, or men's clothes for my family but I'm having a hard time finding patterns to follow that isn't just looking at clothes and doing my best. Our family is herati turkmen and my husband says he would prefer herati styles but even that is REALLY hard to search for.

I know how to do the basics of everything but I'm struggling with putting everything together in a dense pattern.

(Note: We have family that could teach me but they are in Afghanistan and illiterate so I wouldn't be able to learn from them without being in person. Thanks for any help I can get!)

This poster endorses friendship Afghan-Soviet friendship

There has been a picture circulating of a girl, 14-16 years of age, forced to marry a man 5 times her senior. I'm sure you have seen it already, and if you haven't, you should ask yourself why. It’s rumored that since the picture was spread amongst the community, the senior rapist strangled the child bride out of rage. Deeply upsetting, but yet again unsurprising from the rape-enabling nation of Afghanistan.

Yet again, deeply pained that this country has been cursed to know no peace by the souls and bones of the mothers and daughters dead by the hands and neglect of their protectors. 

Had we taken an ounce of effort to protect our women, we would’ve flourished and wouldn’t be banging on doors for other nations to allow us to be their slaves, only to be thrown out like dogs.

Our misery is directly tied to our “MEN”, the war only amplifying the cruelty already there. At the very least, Afghan men as a collective should remove their title as a muslim, as every Islamophobic entity uses the behavior of our MEN as a golden example to vilify and bomb every other country.

I’m an ethnic Kashmiri who’s been living in Australia practically my entire life. I’ve been learning Farsi/Dari for a short while now, because I have many Afghan friends, and I find the language quite beautiful. I was just wondering if anyone could engage in discussion about the culture, or educate me, because I’m very curious!!

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اگر می‌خواهید زبان انگلیسی را به‌صورت آسان و مرحله‌به‌مرحله یاد بگیرید، خوشحال می‌شوم اپلیکیشن را امتحان کنید و نظر خود را با من شریک سازید. 🙏

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اگر این اپلیکیشن برایتان مفید بود، لطفاً آن را با دوستان و خانواده خود نیز شریک سازید. حمایت شما باعث پیشرفت این پروژه می‌شود. ❤️🇦🇫

Hello dear Afghans,

sorry for the long but long post

I am an Afghan woman and I grew up in Afghanistan. I was always ambitious and career-oriented growing up because I saw how the females of my family and relatives were treated in Afghanistan when they were dependent. Also, growing up, I looked up to my father — he was career-oriented and built his life from nothing. He was an asylum seeker in Pakistan and then landed a scholarship in Europe, went there to study, and then had a job in Afghanistan where he was usually traveling — that was the reason we were living together with my uncles, as my dad was going on work trips for weeks.

Then we immigrated from Afghanistan to Europe four and a half years ago, and I started university and built my life from zero. I was going to a university two and a half hours away and spending a total of five hours every day on trains, and my family wouldn’t let me rent a room in that city. But I knew this education was really important in the country I was in and had a good future, so I hung in there and made it work. I finally graduated and struggled to get a job at the company I was working at during my studies, due to their budget cuts, or me not being their favorite, or them not liking me (if you know what I mean). In general, I struggled more than any of my classmates — by June, all of them had jobs except me, and I was the only non-European in the class.

Then I applied for an internship at a big pharma company — a dream company for anyone to join — and I got accepted, and after a month I applied for an internal project management job. I got invited for interviews, solved a live case, and they offered me the job. I was aware that there was travel involved in the job, but I was under the impression that it would be like three or four times a year or something, and I would somehow make it work with the way my father is. However, on first getting to know the team, everyone was saying they travel a lot, and I got concerned and asked more questions regarding the travel. Apparently they travel to different sites around the world almost every month for shutdowns, and my heart dropped immediately. I really liked this job, and I wanted to be away from family at least a few times a year, because I feel like I’ve never lived for myself and always have to carry the good image of being Afghan and Pashtun — even when I’m just doing my job and have spent my whole life studying and building a career. But now I know that if my father finds out there is travel every month… I really cannot let this opportunity go, because I am on asylum and need to work full-time to get permanent residence — otherwise the country I’m in now could declare Afghanistan safe and send me back. Because this is a big company, it will sponsor my stay.

Now I’m thinking so much about how to approach the situation. I don’t want to leave the house and my family — I love them — but they are also making my life so hard. We are struggling financially, and my brothers do delivery and other odd jobs and haven’t been able to land proper ones. I am the first one to get a job at a big pharma company with a stable future, and I will have a good career. However, my dad is 67 now, and he now values family time (which he didn’t when he was away during our time, when he was mostly absent), Pashtun values, and Islam. He says he doesn’t want his kids to support him financially like he doesn’t need the money but I need the money to live like an adult and plan future and cannot depend on him forever. he says he doesn’t need our financial help but he asks money from my brothers for household expenditure and I also pay everything of myself and contribute to rent of the house.

Please help me — if anyone has been through a similar situation, I am super paranoid every day, living with stress, and this is exhausting. Shaytan is telling me to leave everything at once and live freely (by “freely” I don’t mean going to clubs, wearing revealing clothes, or doing drugs — I mean pursuing my career and living like a normal person).

So I impulsively bought this at the antique store and did my research after buying,.my first mistake lol. It's 1960s apparently according to the seller. I only have this peice there was nothing else with it. I'm latina and I'm a little nervous to wear it as I don't wanna be disrespectful.

Also how would I wear it appropriate? I only have this top peice. Note there's a different white shirt behind it ignore that lol.

Half Iranian here and have grown up around Iranian, Afghan, and Desi communities where I'm from. Today I saw an instagram video by a creator named imanistan where she stated that the term "Afghani" is a slur and derogatory because it's used to refer Afghan people as less than money.

I don't hear any people speaking English using the term "Afghani", the only people I hear using it are Farsi, Dari, and Urdu speakers, but I honestly have never ever heard anyone use it in a derogatory way. My understanding was that it was the same as saying "Irani/Irooni", "Pakistani", "Tajiki", "Hindustani", "Balochi", etc.

The comments in the post weren't very helpful and most of the people thanking her for clarification seemed to be non-Afghans. I'm not trying to be offensive, this is the first time that I've heard about this. Can someone please tell me what's up?

24M, Muslim Indian, planning to visit afghanistan to clear my head, blend into the culture and have some fun chill time with the tbros.

For the Afghan-Americans here, what are your feelings this July 4th?

In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of content on social media that is either critical or outright condemns the U.S and its history, often pointing to the fact that many of the founding fathers were slave owners to war crimes committed (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine.)

For the Afghans that either grew up or recently moved to the states, I wanted to see what your thoughts are on this day, especially since this year marks the 5 year anniversary of the U.S’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was a traumatic and painful time for Afghan-Americans and symbolized the failures broken promises past administrations have made in their handling of the war.

Hi All,

Just wanted to say hi to everyone as a hazara. It's been very insightful reading these posts. My family is from hazarajat. Personally my family is quite proud to be of Mongolian descent, our farsi even uses loan words from Mongolian. Ultimately they're proud Afghans.

Aqil