Eventually, we decided without pretensions and assertions to establish an electronic newspaper and website for Afghanistan authors, intellectuals and journalists, different from other news and analyzing websites.

At the beginning, Afghan Press established in English, but we also decided to prepare its Dari Farsi section. The Farsi section was more important than the English one, because the English section needed a source to be updated daily.

With friends and authors’ help and God’s will, we got it started. And in the ‘preface’ we wrote all was inside our hearts in just some words. If you liked that, you can start your activity with a smile and if frowned, do not forget the fairness.

Professional journalism has not taken place in Afghanistan yet and reasons are obvious to some extent, the most important of which is having no financial aid, which has become impossible to find nowadays. Those who have made typographical newspapers have seen the efforts and costs these projects have. Now you may ask how Afghan Press has gained the money to launch these websites.

The answer is very simple: If you’ve seen the English section, it has been written since six months ago on the right corner, a declaration to help independent Afghan news and analyzing website which wants to broadcast news from inside of Afghanistan. Thus, our Western friends and especially those whom we knew in person, donated to us from ten to hundred dollars, and we achieved the money for designing the website and buying its host and domain.

Here we should offer our thanks to Esra’a Al Shafei, who had an active contribution to this project. If it weren’t for her, launching this project would have been improbable. She is a student and also an active journalist. She has done too much in recent years, such as launching Middle Eastern Youth and Village TV websites. Miss. Esra’a is of those rare people which are improbable to be found these days.

Long story short, we invite everyone to write in Afghan Press. Some sections of Afghan Press are like professional websites. Writers can have their individual page with their profile or biography and their articles in a separate URL. They can login with their usernames and passwords in panel of management of posts, and publish their articles.

Afghan Press has different and independent sections. If you are a photographer, you can send us photos; if you are an author, you can send us articles; if interested in Radio and conversational activities, you can send us Audio files; and if you’re a documenter, you can publish your Video files on Afghan Press. In short, Afghan Press is in service of Afghan friends and authors.