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There were around 377,000 Afghan citizens residing in Germany at the end of 2022. [111] In the city of Hamburg alone being home to 50,000 [112] people of Afghan descent and Hamburg and has the largest Afghan community in Europe. They came first in 1990s due to Afghan conflict to Germany where many people decided to live in Hamburg. Today ...
Adamec, Ludwig W. Afghanistan's foreign affairs to the mid-twentieth century: relations with the USSR, Germany, and Britain (University of Arizona Press, 1974). Finlan, Alastair. Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–2012 (2014) Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.
Bread and Roses follows the experiences of three women in the months following the fall of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul: Zahra, a dentist whom the Taliban attempt to force to close her ...
The 2011 census recorded 62,161 people born in Afghanistan living in England, 562 in Wales, [14] 737 in Scotland [15] and 36 in Northern Ireland. [16] The Office for National Statistics estimates that, by 2019, the Afghan-born population of the UK had risen to 79,000.
Afghanistan established close ties with Germany prior to 1935 – forming important economic and technical connections, [12] and seeking an alternative to its historical position as a contested territory between the USSR and Britain. Germany increased commercial transactions in Afghanistan during this period, with a weekly Berlin-Kabul air ...
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
The Taliban rulings regarding public conduct placed severe restrictions on a woman's freedom of movement and created difficulties for those who could not afford a burqa (which was not commonly worn in Afghanistan prior to the rise of the Taliban and considered a fairly expensive garment at upwards of US$9.00 in 1998 (equivalent to about $17 in 2023) [7]: 8 ) or did not have any mahram.
In the 1970s, about 2,000 Afghans resided in West Germany, most were businessmen and students. The trade city of Hamburg particularly attracted Afghan carpet traders who would sell Afghan carpets. With the onset of the Soviet-Afghan War in Afghanistan, many fled to West Germany and the population grew to about 11,000 by 1982. Another wave ...