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June 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A NATO airstrike killed three teenage boys in the Baraki Barak district of central Logar province, an official said on Tuesday. The strike took place on Sunday evening in the Tokal village, the district chief, Mohammad Rahim Amin, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The dead included two 18 years old and one 12-year-old boys, he said, adding an investigation had been launched into the attack. Full news...
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June 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
HRW: Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s appointment of a weakly qualified human rights commission with little public consultation raises concerns about the country’s most important rights body. On June 15, 2013, Karzai announced the appointment of five new commissioners to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), most of whom appear to have little or no record defending human rights. Full news...
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June 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Outsiders may have trouble distinguishing between the turbans worn by Afghan Sikhs, with their tighter folds, varied colors and tucked-in edges, and those worn by Afghan Muslims, usually black or white with the end hanging down the wearer’s back. The subtle differences, however, and what they represent, have fueled widespread discrimination against Afghan Sikhs, members of the community say... Full news...
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June 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pakistan Today: Six civilians were killed and four others sustained injuries when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle in Afghanistan’s central province of Uruzgan on Sunday. The early morning blast took place in the Chura district, a statement from the governor’s house media centre said. Full news...
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June 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: War-weary Britain is experiencing its own “Vietnam phenomenon” as the Afghan mission draws to a close, the Defence Secretary told The Telegraph during a trip to Afghanistan. His candid assessment of Britain’s appetite for future conflict comes as David Cameron and other Western leaders edge towards greater military intervention in Syria. Full news...
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June 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghanistan remains at the rock bottom -- in 162nd position -- on the 2013 Global Peace Index (GPI), faring poorly in terms of political stability and respect for human rights. Launching the index at the GPI headquarters in New York on Thursday, experts said the world had become less peaceful in the past year, calling Afghanistan the biggest faller. Full news...
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June 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Bombs have become so common in Afghanistan that the attacks themselves, still less the human costs months and years later, are rarely reported. When a bomb went off at a clinic in Logar, a province south of Kabul, in July 2011, 30 people were killed instantly and at least ten died afterwards as a result of the injuries they sustained. Full news...
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June 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF expressed concerns regarding children’s casualties in Afghanistan war and violence and urged all parties involved in the Afghan war to take necessary precuations in a bid to prevent civilian and children casualties. Full news...
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June 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Protestors in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Tuesday accused a doctor of raping a midwife, demanding his trial, officials said. Hundreds of people took to the streets in the provincial capital, blaming the doctor for assaulting the midwife at his private clinic, said Sharifuddin, one of the protestors. Full news...
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June 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: The United Nations said civilian casualties from the conflict in Afghanistan have increased dramatically this year. News of the figures came as 14 people were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber Tuesday near Afghanistan’s Supreme Court. The increasing number of civilians killed could impact Afghanistan national elections next year and its transition to security independence as international combat forces leave next year. Full news...
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June 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in front of the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, several hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy, killing 17 people and wounding 38, police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility in a statement sent to reporters, adding that the bomber, whom it identified as an engineer named Abdul Wajid, detonated his explosives-packed Toyota Corolla... Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Around four hundred cases of rape and honor-killing have been filed with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Comission (AIHRC) during the past two years. AIHRC officials called the latest statistics as “shocking” and expressed concerns that majority of similar cases have not been recorded due to strict traditional sensitivities. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Human smuggling to Iran has put many undocumented immigrants from border villages in Afghanistan at risk. The bodies of 172 youth have been brought to Kelefgan. Residents of Kelefgan district in Takhar province say many of their relatives have been hanged in Iran. There is not a single month in which the bodies of two or three young men have not been brought to the district for burial. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Taliban fighters beheaded two boys aged 10 and 16 as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government, local officials said. The boys, named Khan and Hameedullah, had travelled to Afghan army and police checkpoints near their home in the southern province of Kandahar, scrounging for leftover food to bring to their families, the officials said. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Engineer Ewaz Ali Wafa was among thousands of innocent people who were imprisoned in Sadarat (the prime minister’s palace) and Pul-e-Charkhi jail in the 1980s. Wafa has many bad memories of torture by security officials of the communist government. He has never dared to share these. Full news...
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June 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man gunned down his sister on suspicion of having an illicit relationship with a boy in northeastern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday evening when the 18 years old was killed with a Kalashnikov in Khak Kani area on the outskirts of Kunduz City. Full news...
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June 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of various districts of the eastern Nangarhar province complain of deteriorated security situation elsewhere in the province amid raging terror attempts, abduction, and roadside bomb blasts, blaming the authorities of turning blind eye to check the situation. However, concerned officials of the province while refuting residents’ complain of mayhem and turmoil... Full news...
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June 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ToloNews: A foreign force’s drone strike killed at least three civilians and wounded six others in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. Kunar Provincial Governor Fazlullah Wahidi confirmed the attack and said that these civilians were killed Wednesday night when foreign forces wanted to target the Taliban insurgents in the Dara Pech area of Nangam district. Full news...
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June 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. Full news...
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June 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An official says three children and their father died when their car hit a bomb on a road in western Afghanistan, the latest deaths in a sharp rise in civilian casualties. Farah province spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai says the family was driving early Tuesday when their car hit the buried bomb. The father and children were killed instantly. The mother was critically injured. Full news...
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June 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people, including nine schoolchildren, in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, as Afghan Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive. In one attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives in a busy market in eastern Paktia province... Full news...
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June 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Anywhere you go to in Afghanistan you will hear sad stories of war. Even if your heart were made of stone these will make you weep. Uncle Malak Shamsudin from Salang testifies. “It was early morning on Dalwa 24, 1367(early 1988). There was half a metre of snow on the ground. Suddenly there was the sound of rockets and bombs. In the blink of an eye eight of my family members and seven of my uncle’s sons were dead.” Full news...
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June 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Some 97 girls from two schools in northern Afghanistan have reportedly been hospitalized after falling sick as a result of suspected gas poisoning. In Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, a total of 77 girls from the same school were taken to hospital on Saturday afternoon after they fell ill, Afghan Pajhwok news agency reported on Sunday. Full news...
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June 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: With more and more women coming forward to report violence against them by husbands and family members, the rate of convictions has been disappointingly low, victims and human rights activists say. A joint investigation by the Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) shows there has been a dramatic surge in violent acts and crimes against women... Full news...
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May 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Kamdesh district of eastern Nuristan province has come under missile strike from Pakistan’s soil, an official said on Friday. Dozens of missiles had landed in Gordesh area since Thursday night, Nuristan’s acting police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three civilian homes were destroyed and as many torched during a clash between armed insurgents and security forces in the Garziwan district of northwestern Faryab province, residents claimed on Thursday. They said the clash had been ongoing over the last three days, asking both sides to leave their villages and avoid creating problems for them. Full news...
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May 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: The war in Afghanistan will cost every British household 2,000 GBP, a foreign policy adviser to the Government said yesterday. But Frank Ledwidge added that not a single Al Qaeda terrorist who posed a threat to Britain has been killed by Nato forces in Helmand. And the province is no more stable now than when British troops were deployed there in 2006. Full news...
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May 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Impoverished Afghanistan, already plagued by insurgency and struggling to contain crippling rates of opium addiction, faces another potential headache with spiraling usage of the synthetic drug crystal methamphetamine. The growing use of the drug, known as crystal meth or ice, comes at a critical time. Full news...
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May 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: The rise of independent media in Afghanistan has been one of the country’s biggest achievements - but there are troubling signs for its future. A growing number of attacks on journalists, and the international community’s continued silence on the issue, are drawing concern. Naqibullah, a shopkeeper on so-called “electronic street” in Kabul, sells TVs and DVD players Full news...
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May 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There is overwhelming evidence of a proliferation of poorly constructed, illegal townships across the country with efforts ongoing to execute more housing schemes on usurped lands. An investigation by the Independent Media Consortium (IMC)* reveals there are multiple agencies at work and unable to check the rot. High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption chief Azizullah Ludin says documents of most of townships are fake... Full news...