Abdul Karim Hekmat

Dec 6, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Abdul Karim Hekmat

In August 2021, as Kabul fell to the Taliban, I began trying to help evacuate my uncle and his family. For days, he wasn’t reachable. He had fled to hide in the mountains to avoid being captured by the Taliban. I had fled the Taliban more than 20 years earlier and sought asylum in Australia by boat and hoped I might be able to support my family to settle here also. When I finally spoke to my uncle, he was excited about the possibility.

Sep 27, 2023 | thenewdaily.com.au | Abdul Karim Hekmat

France’s ambassador to Niger has left the country a month after the military government ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat would be pulled out and French troops withdrawn. Relations between Niger and France, its former colonial ruler which maintained a military presence in the country to help fight Islamist insurgents, have broken down since army officers seized power in Niamey in July.

Sep 9, 2023 | canberratimes.com.au | Abdul Karim Hekmat |Liz Hobday

Manozh Noori was so passionate about becoming a soccer player, she dressed like a boy to kick a handmade fabric ball on the streets of Kabul. "When I was a kid, that was the only way I could play, my brothers banned me from being a soccer player," she told AAP. Then the Taliban banned women's participation in sport and when the regime took over the Afghan capital in August 2021, she locked herself in a room for a week, too afraid to leave home.

Sep 9, 2023 | newcastleherald.com.au | Abdul Karim Hekmat |Liz Hobday

Manozh Noori left Afghanistan after the Taliban cracked down on women's sport. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)Manozh Noori was so passionate about becoming a soccer player, she dressed like a boy to kick a handmade fabric ball on the streets of Kabul. "When I was a kid, that was the only way I could play, my brothers banned me from being a soccer player," she told AAP.

Sep 9, 2023 | illawarramercury.com.au | Abdul Karim Hekmat |Liz Hobday

Manozh Noori left Afghanistan after the Taliban cracked down on women's sport. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)Manozh Noori was so passionate about becoming a soccer player, she dressed like a boy to kick a handmade fabric ball on the streets of Kabul. "When I was a kid, that was the only way I could play, my brothers banned me from being a soccer player," she told AAP.