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September 27, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: Presidents Bush, Karzai, and Musharraf should act immediately to stop the increasing insecurity and attendant human rights abuses gripping southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's border areas, Human Rights Watch said today. The three leaders are meeting tonight in Washington. Full news...
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September 25, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC NEWS: Unidentified gunmen have killed a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, security officials say. Full news...
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September 20, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY: A UN-backed rights watchdog has expressed continuing concern over violence against women in Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 16, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Cursor.org: For every American who dies in either Afghanistan or Iraq, about 17 innocent Afghan or Iraqi civilians perish. The overall cumulative death count for both Americans and civilians in Iraqi is approximately ten times greater than in Afghanistan (data accessed on September 17, 2006). Full news...
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September 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Francisco Chronicle: Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was already proclaiming the new Afghanistan "a breathtaking accomplishment" and "a successful model of what could happen to Iraq." As everybody now knows, the model isn't working in Iraq. So we shouldn't be surprised to learn that it's not working in Afghanistan either. Full news...
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September 4, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: Afghanistan’s opium cultivation surged by 59 per cent this year largely as a result of a Taliban-led insurgency that is pushing the southern part of the country to the verge of collapse, the United Nations drugs agency chief said at the weekend. Full news...
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September 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Taliban have publicly executed a man for his alleged involvement in a murder case in the Garmsir district of the southern Helmand province on Saturday. Full news...