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April 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Compared with the rest of the country, which is plagued by frequent militant attacks and bombings, Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa and Parwan provinces enjoy relative peace and stability. Taliban militants don’t enjoy a strong presence there. Despite this, some villagers in the two neighboring provinces say they won’t be casting their ballots in the April 5 elections because they fear reprisals from local warlords. Full news...
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April 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A large number of weeping women on Wednesday staged a protest rally in northern Faryab province, accusing a local commander of sexually abusing and murdering young girls and children during a bloody clash with civilians. Nearly 100 women, accompanied by children, from Pashtun Kot district arrived in Maimana, the provincial capital, and assembled in front of the governor’s house. Full news...
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April 22, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: At least seventeen people were injured following an explosion in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan on Tuesday. Local government officials said the incident took place around 10:00 am local time in Charikar city. Full news...
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April 20, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A young woman has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen after she eloped in northern Baghlan province, an official said Sunday. Amina 21 was eloped as she was unhappy with her husband. Unidentified gunmen forced her into the car and shot her dead in Kotal-i-Shahidan locality on the outskirts of Talau Barfak district last night, the district chief said. Full news...
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April 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Iran executed half a dozen Afghans on death row yesterday and is set to hang another seven on Saturday, an official claimed. The six executed Afghans belonged to northeastern Takhar province and they had gone to the neighbouring country in search of work, the governor’s spokesman, Sunatullah Taimori told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The country’s deaddiction centres are not able to keep up with the spiraling drug abuse. With nearly 1.6 million addicts including children and women the rampant use of an assortment of drugs has become a serious public health crisis. The Independent Media Consortium (IMC) Productions investigates. Full news...
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April 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some warlords and government departments owed more than 100 million afghanis in unpaid electricity bills to the power utility in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday. Eng. Hamidullah, the Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) chief in Kunduz City, said his department’s revenue stood at 600 million afghanis last solar year, but more than 100 million afs remained in default with warlords and some government departments. Full news...
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April 16, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SocialistWorker.org: The U.S. media celebrated Afghanistan’s April 5 elections as a success story. The country’s Independent Election Commission reported that more than 7 million voters participated in the presidential and provincial council voting, a higher turnout than the 2009 election. Full news...
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April 15, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Afghan officials said that a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed a woman and two children on Tuesday, again raising the issue of civilian casualties at a time when both the presidential election and the future of the Western troop presence are unresolved. Full news...
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April 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Kabul’s infamous prison Pul-e-Charkhi claimed the lives of thousands of political prisoners who were brutally tortured and executed under the Khalq and Parcham regimes. Jamila’s 22-year-old husband was picked up by the secret police, and was never seen again. She says she searched everywhere in Kabul for him for two months. “He still has not returned.” Full news...
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April 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: As the clock ticks down to the promised withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US military is trying to figure out how to market the idea that the international intervention has actually accomplished its core mission — bringing peace and stability to a nation that has known little of either for the past 35 years. Full news...
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April 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: As the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan, it is leaving behind a deadly legacy: about 800 square miles of land littered with undetonated grenades, rockets and mortar shells. The military has vacated scores of firing ranges pocked with the explosives. Full news...
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April 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Pakistani truck driver Umran Khan spent nine years in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison, where he says he suffered beatings, sleep deprivation and a sustained campaign of mental disintegration despite committing no crime. Accused with a friend of transporting bombs in 2005, he has maintained his innocence - and an official record shows his captors suspected the same. Full news...
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April 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Pajhwok Afghan News has obtained some video clips and photos that show many ballot papers have either been torched or thrown out. One video shows some individuals are stuffing ballot boxes in favour of presidential runners and others throwing ballot papers into a toilet. Full news...
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April 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman has been found stabbed to death multiple-times and her body’s parts, including lips, cut off allegedly by a brother-in-law in northwestern Jawzjan province, police said on Thursday. The victim, a 23-year-old mother of two children, was mercilessly killed on Wednesday night in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, police chief Col. Syed Zamanuddin Hussaini told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some warlords stuffed ballot boxes and election officials committed fraud during Saturday’s elections in two districts of northwestern Faryab province, an official alleged on Wednesday. “We have received reports that say some warlords interfered and stuffed ballot boxes for their candidate,” he said, but did not name the contender and the warlords. Full news...
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April 8, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PBS NewsHour: A young Afghan woman named Soheila ran away with a man after her father forced her to marry a 70-year-old. She and her lover were caught after three years and both were jailed for adultery. Soheila tells her story in the documentary “To Kill a Sparrow,” produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The PBS NewsHour will air an excerpt on Friday. Full news...
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April 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A roadside bomb killed at least 15 people traveling in vehicles that had been diverted from a main road Monday after an earlier attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The blast came after a relatively calm weekend in which no major attacks were reported as Afghans voted for a new president and provincial councils. Full news...
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April 6, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) officials said they have received over 1,000 regarding the violation of election. ECC spokesman, Nader Mohsini said around 1,269 complaints have been received from the people since 11:00 last night. Mr. Mohsini further added that the majority of the complaints were filed through mobile phones with the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. Full news...
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April 5, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A Pajhwok Afghan News video journalist was beaten and his camera broken by Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel guarding polling stations in the Lalpura district of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday. Pajhwok reporter in the east, Mahbob Shah Mahbob, said he had travelled to the district along with cameraman Babrak Amirzada to cover the landmark elections. Full news...
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April 3, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Vice News: You might have heard that the US spent some 102 billion USD trying to develop Afghanistan over the last decade — and that’s in addition to the estimated 6 trillion USD it spent going to war there in the first place. You also might have heard that a lot of that money vanished into thin air, went to shady contractors, corrupt politicians, or, occasionally, the Taliban. Full news...
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April 2, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Finding a solution to the thriving heroin production in Afghanistan has been on the back burner ever since the Americans occupied the country. The new Afghan president who will be elected next weekend will have to battle record opium harvests. Full news...
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April 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: “A lot of fraud” in Afghanistan is hampering any positive results Western money might bring, the head of oversight for US work in Afghanistan believes. RT’s correspondent in Kabul has witnessed some of the misspending. Full news...
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March 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: Having a presidential election in Afghanistan is sort of like trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again—that is, if every piece of the eggshell were trying to kill all the other pieces. Thirteen years after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan is no closer to being a unified country than it was back then, after a decade of war during the Soviet period, the civil war that followed and finally the conquest by the Taliban. Full news...
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March 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Violence against journalists has been growing. The last two years have been tough on the media fraternity. Two more names were added in March to the list of reporters killed by Taleban violence: Nils Horner, a radio journalist reporting for Radio Sweden, and Sardar Ahmad, reporter for AFP. Both were gunned down in Kabul. Full news...
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March 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Health Minister Suraya Dalil believes health care is at the doorstep of 70 percent of Afghans and only an hour away from the rest. But a quick look reveals a vastly different story. Last month at a conference on public-private partnership in Kabul a very optimistic minister also said, “Statistics show Afghanistan has developed considerably in the health sector.” Full news...
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March 28, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Metro: Addicts in the world’s most drug-affected Afghan region are feeding their own children opium to keep them quiet, and selling relatives to fund their own heroin habits, Metro has learned. And such is the desperation to pay for drugs, any ruse will do. Abdurahim Mutar, 36, admits trading in his own sister, Tazagul. Full news...
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March 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
American Free Press: The tragic overdose death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on February 2, brought renewed interest to the subject of cheap heroin on America’s streets. Across the country, heroin use is on the rise, despite the billions of dollars spent by United States law enforcement fighting it. Full news...
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March 26, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: Afghanistan has been called “the worst place in the world to be a woman,”1 because not only is the poverty pervasive and the lifespan short, but while they are alive many women live like serfs. Afghan students at the private school for girls where I work in Kabul recently produced a series of essays in which they describe the social norms for women in their country. Full news...
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March 25, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A group of Taliban insurgents, including two suicide bombers, stormed an office of the election commission in the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing six people, around the same time that two suicide bombers killed six members of the Afghan security forces in an eastern province. In a third attack, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest during an athletic competition, killing five people. Full news...