Young women in Afghanistan are rejecting the traditional burqa for more comfortable abayas and hijabs, challenging ...

Instead, we must strain to peer through the mists cloudingour vision of Afghanistan, lest we view that country no moreclearly than I first did through the veil of a burka on that busride many ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan, March 7 (Xinhua) -- In the face of economic hardship and limited opportunities, Afghan women are forging their own paths to self-reliance.