Full Coverage: Afghanistan

27.06.2005 With violence in Afghanistan on the rise, the senior United Nations envoy to the country is calling for cooperation between the authorities, international forces and Pakistan's Government to stem the bloodshed and provide hope for lasting stability.

22.06.2005 The United Nations refugee agency and the Government of Pakistan are stepping up efforts to consolidate Afghan refugee camps in the country, announcing that two camps in Balochistan province will close in addition to those in the troubled tribal belt already scheduled for closure.

16.06.2005 Care is working on empowering girls in Afghanistan by providing them an education. Here is one such success story in which Farzana, a 28-year old, the principal of Sha Shaheed School, is providing education exclusively to girls who missed out on education during the Taliban rule.

15.06.2005 Oxfam America and ACTED, which is a French organisation, are helping Afghan potters improve their income as well improve the quality of their ceramics through training and by setting up an economic interest group.

13.06.2005 Clementina Cantoni, an Italian who has worked in Afghanistan for several years to improve the plight of the country's women, was released late last week after more than three weeks in captivity.

07.06.2005 A musician plays his rabab, a guitar-like instrument, while singing a folk song at a Pashtun gathering in Islamabad. Soon many in the audience - including clerics - tie up their turbans and start dancing to the beat of dholak drums. The lure of the music, for that moment, offers a rare outlet for self-expression in a society where frivolity is frowned upon.

02.06.2005 After two decades of conflict and with much of the countryÂ’s population living in remote areas, the majority of Afghanis do not have access to health care. Aid workers and non-governmental organizations are teaming up to improve health care in rural regions of the country.