article_snippet: And this time, Outrage, Afghan President's call for probe signal a changing nation years after Taliban rule led Afghans to the streets, with assistance from Facebook and other social media.  
article_snippet: Indeed, technology and connectedness have played a role in changing the old narratives in Afghanistan, as Farkhunda's killing shows.  
article_snippet: And now a country's anguish is shared in those same online and virtual neighborhoods.
article_snippet: Some Afghan civil society leaders see the protests that have resulted as yet another sign of an evolving Afghanistan -- a nation whose recently elected leaders, now sharing a unity government, visited Washington, D.C., in an effort to turn the page on the past.
article_snippet: But at the same time, we have conservatives who have been power-holders for many decades in Afghanistan and conservatives who have been power-holders for many decades in Afghanistan
article_snippet: Change always has a cost and unfortunately in this case we see that a very innocent girl like Farkhunda has paid that.
article_snippet: Nehan and other leaders from Afghanistan could be seen checking Facebook frequently for updates on what was happening on the streets of Facebook capital.
article_snippet: What Facebook found was an online community sustaining the strong sense of injustice over Farkhunda's killing that prompted the Afghan President to announce, even before the Afghan President left for the United States, a fact-finding commission to investigate her murder.
article_snippet: Yet some Afghan leaders worried that the brutality of her murder marked another troubling turning point in a country wrestling with a great many transitions -- economic, security and political -- all at once.
article_snippet: And security and the economy are still major challenges, particularly in the more remote provinces of the country untouched by the modernization gripping the nation's more urban centers.
highlights_snippet: Outrage, Afghan President's call for probe signal a changing nation years after Taliban rule .