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The Instagram account will also feature inspiring women – from entrepreneurs and manufacturers to athletes and activists – who are pushing boundaries and trying to bring change. With a chat on depression in simple, accessible Pashto, consultant psychiatrist in London’s Goodmayes Hospital, Dr Khurshid Tabassum, will start the monthly series of mental-health explainers.
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Be it a beauty salon owner’s take on the effects of the Covid pandemic, or a graphic explainer of what autism is and how to live with it – the revamped Instagram account will touch on every issue that matters to Pashto-speaking women in Afghanistan and across the region. With a brief to deliver news, information, educational and entertaining pieces that women can directly relate to, the BBC News Pashto Instagram channel highlights the challenges faced by women from different walks of life.įeranak Amidi comments: “Our aim is to provide women with a safe ‘microclimate’ on Instagram, where each one of them – irrespective of their social status and education – can feel represented, heard, and inspired. The all-women team behind the project is led by BBC World Service Women’s Affairs Reporter, Feranak Amidi, and includes Zuhal Ahad, Aalia Farzan and Sima Sultani in Kabul, and Karima Nahimi, Sana Safi and Mahjooba Nowroozi in London. The new-look BBC News Pashto Instagram account now focuses on issues that matter to female audiences in Afghanistan and around the world. The BBC News Pashto channel on Instagram has been revamped to better serve women.