Taekwondoka Rohullah Nikpai came for a gold medal but a bronze was enough to fill his eyes with tears, as he won the first medal at the London Olympic Games for his country Afghanistan. Afghanistan's ...

PESHAWAR: Captain Rohullah Mohmand, a commando of the military’s Special Service Group (SSG) — the country’s elite commando force -- lost his life on Tuesday during the clearance operation launched by ...

Rohullah Nikpai, the taekwondo practitioner, made history for Afghanistan twice in the Olympics. He is a two-time bronze medal winner in the Olympics. Born in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan, ...

Rohullah Nikpai's journey from an Iranian refugee camp to Afghanistan's sole Olympic medallist has made him a national hero. ByLyse Doucet BBC News, Kabul At a sports centre in the heart of Kabul, the ...

Thu 09 Aug 12: Afghanistan's Rohullah Nikpai has won Olympic bronze in London. The taekwondo fighter, who took up the sport in a refugee camp in Iran, now has two Olympic bronze medals - the only two ...

World Class 2012 in partnership with the British Council bring you the stories of the schools where the dreams begin. Rohullah was Afghanistan's first ever athlete to gain an Olympic medal when he ...