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March 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An investigation has been launched to determine whether the victims were civilians or militants, the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The men, who were killed in the overnight operation in Gul Bagh area on the outskirts of Jalalabad, were brothers, said a tribal elder, Ghulam Nabi. Full news...
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March 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Taliban militants cut off the ears of four Afghans working for a government-funded development project in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial government said Thursday. The militants on Wednesday detained eight people, including four children, who all work for the development project in the Zhari district, a statement issued by the governor’s office said. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Iranian weapons en route to Taliban have been seized by International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in the border city of Nimroz. The weapons include 48 rockets with a range of 20 kilometers, officials have said. The seized rockets reportedly double the usual range of the rockets used by the Taliban. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: One woman died and another was injured when soldiers from the NATO-led coalition opened fire in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the incident, but that a preliminary report showed the two women were over a kilometer away from where the firing took place. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A sharp jump in assassinations and a rise in suicide and roadside bombings in Afghanistan last year led to an increase in civilian casualties, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations documented 2,777 civilian deaths in 2010, which it said was a 15 percent rise over the number killed in fighting the previous year. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Insurgents shot dead a man and his son on the charge of spying for the government in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Thursday. The two were gunned down while returning home from a mosque, the provincial police chief, Abdul Jabbar Purdali, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The father, 50, and his son, 18, had no links to the government, he said. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A number of people in Kunduz claim that local militias take their money and mobile phones forcefully and in some cases even beat them up. They say that although this province has been cleared of armed anti-government forces, the people will distance themselves from the government if things continued this way, thus paving the way for the insurgents to return. The people demanded the government to dissolve this illegal force. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: To watch a 2003 video of Malalai Joya, then in her early 20s, making a speech is to witness phenomenal courage and the power of speaking out. Joya, now 32, was an elected delegate to the Loya Jirga (an assembly to debate the proposed Afghan constitution) when she stood up and publicly criticised the room full of men. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a female police official in the western province of Herat. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and wounded 2nd Lt. Maryam, head of a police recruitment centre, after she left her home in Paen Aab and went out of the city. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TheWip: The great number of Afghan women who commit self-immolation (burning oneself to death) is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes its victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured, and shunned by their communities. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: While we have been fixated on successive Arab breakthroughs and victories against tyranny and extremism, Washington is failing miserably but discreetly in Afghanistan. The American media’s one-obsession-at-a-time coverage of global affairs might have put the spotlight on President Obama’s slow and poor reaction to the breathtaking developments starting in Tunisia and Egypt. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Hundreds of Afghans held a massive protest against the United States in the downtown area of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday, demanding an end of the U.S. role in Afghanistan.“The involvement of the US government in Afghanistan, that has a long history of cruelty, has not improved conditions in the country, but increased corruption, poverty, murders, poppy cultivation and trafficking,” says the pamphlet handed out by the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan, the organizer of the protests. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Two of Nasim’s sons went into the hills to collect firewood last week to warm the family’s humble home against the biting Afghan winter chill. They never returned, killed along with seven other children in a NATO air strike. “The Americans are wild,” said the boys’ father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke. “They don't value humanity and don’t care about our children. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: When one looks across the Arab world today at the stunning spontaneous democracy uprisings, it is impossible to not ask: What are we doing spending 110 billion USD this year supporting corrupt and unpopular regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are almost identical to the governments we’re applauding the Arab people for overthrowing? Full news...
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March 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he’s sorry. Too little, too late, general. Nine boys now lie among thousands of others who had a right to life independent of U.S. goals in Afghanistan, and “sorry” doesn’t cut it, especially from the general who's tripling the air war over Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle (Translated by RAWA): Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has demanded the judicial bodies of Afghanistan to investigate the case of a 17-year old girl who was raped by a local influential. The girl claimed that she was raped by the head of the Provincial Council of Kunar. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes... Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The chief of police in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday confirmed that nine children had been killed in a NATO-led airstrike the previous day. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it would investigate the claims. Residents of Manogi district on Tuesday said the airstrike killed as many as 10 children as they collected firewood in Nangalam valley. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Armed conflict is keeping 28 million children around the world out of schools, where they are often targets of sexual abuse and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by UNESCO. The report titled “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” said that 42 percent of children not enrolled in schools around the world live in poor countries wracked by conflict. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New Yorker: Ten boys went out to gather firewood in a valley in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Only one came home; his name is Hemad, and this is what he had to say, as quoted in the Times: ...he helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. Full news...
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March 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban insurgents killed four people for allegedly spying on behalf of the US in North Waziristan, a tribal region of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, an official said on Tuesday. The dead bodies were found on a roadside on Tuesday morning in Datakhel area on the outskirts of Miranshah town, an official in the town, Mohammad Imran, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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