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August 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Left Foot Forward: The death of another two British soldiers last week in Helmand was followed by the usual 30-second Colonel’s voxpop on the 10 o’clock news and accompanied by the standard release of heartfelt messages of condolence from their surviving comrades on the MoD website. Other than the quick delivery of facts, there has been very little analysis of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by the British media. Full news...
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August 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Local government officials in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan said a young Afghan girl was raped by two men in this province. The officials furhter added the eight years old Afghan girl was raped in Qaisar district at Ghori Raheen village three days back. Full news...
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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Provincial officials in northern Afghanistan have asked the central government in Kabul to decide whether a street in Mazar-e Sharif should be named after a group of Iranian diplomats killed there in 1998. The move, announced in a statement by the Administrative Council of Balkh Province, comes after a scandal erupted over reports that the street with Iran’s former... Full news...
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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: After US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly walked off a US base in Kandahar last March and went house to house, killing a total of 17 Afghan civilians, many worried that the Taliban would capitalize on the incident and the long restive province would revert to violence. Yet more than five months later, violence in Kandahar remains at record lows. Full news...
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August 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Three suicide bombers killed at least 30 civilians in a coordinated attack Tuesday in a city in southwestern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials. Later, at least 10 civilians were killed in a bombing in a bazaar in the north. The attacks began early Tuesday afternoon when 10 insurgents entered Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimruz province... Full news...
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August 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Prensa Latina: A little more than 10 years after the invasion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Afghanistan is still the main generator of opium with calculations estimated just over 90 percent of world production. This element, translated into the inner realities of the invaded country, implies a figure close to 500 million USD in the gross domestic product (GDP) a year and that obviously Hamid Karzai’s regime does not take into account. Full news...
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August 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Express Tribune: Outside Peshawar’s mosques, after Friday prayers, magazines with articles and pictures of attacks by the Afghan Taliban and violence carried out by Nato forces are distributed, most of the time for free. The magazines are usually accompanied by guidance on Shariah law. These magazines are available in a number of languages including Urdu, English, Farsi and Dari, reaching out to a wide-ranging audience. Full news...
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August 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
National Times: Senior Defence Department officials feared the WikiLeaks exposé of secret US military reports would undermine public support for the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan, according to newly released briefing papers. Reports about a corrupt Afghan warlord who works closely with Australian special forces were considered particularly sensitive. Full news...
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August 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Local: The German officer who ordered an air strike that killed more than 100 Afghan civilians and cost the jobs of the defence minister, the head of the army and a senior state secretary, is to be promoted to general next year. Colonel Georg Klein, 51, has been offered a job as division director in the new federal office for personnel management, a position that includes an automatic promotion to general. Full news...
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August 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A local reporter on Saturday complained that he was beaten by security guards of the governor of central Uruzgan province. Najibullah Latif, who works for Yawali and Paiwastoon radio stations, said he was thrashed at 7:30 am when his car struck a vehicle of the guards. Full news...
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August 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Thousands of residents on Friday took to the streets against the governor of eastern Laghman province, demanding his immediate removal. The protest rally was taken out from the main mosque in Mehtarlam, the provincial capital, after Friday prayers at about 2pm and lasted about an hour. Full news...
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August 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: A decree by Afghan president Hamid Karzai ordering government to improve the quality of the country’s media has created fears that the government will try to censor the press and broadcasters. Karzai gave the information and culture ministry two months to come up with an action plan to impose “minimum quality standards” on both state-run and private media outlets. Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan, a number of Afghan civilians were killed following night time military operation by coalition security forces in this province. Khashrod district chief Haji Mohammad Hashim said, at least four Afghan civilians were killed and two Afghan kids were injured during a military operation by coalition forces last night. Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: One recent early morning, Bibi Hajira was milking the cows when a blast knocked her unconscious. “When I woke up I was in the hospital with head injuries. My left arm and right leg had both been hit. I don’t remember anything else but that blast.” When Hajira returned home, she found her cow dead, and her goats and sheep injured. “I still get very scared every time I hear the sound of a rocket. It has a nasty sound.” Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A remote-controlled bomb has ripped apart a bus in a popular picnic spot just a few miles north-west of Kabul, killing nine civilians and injuring five others, in a worrying sign of violence encroaching upon the Afghan capital. Paghman district is secure enough that a mob of furious villagers chased down and attacked a man they spotted detonating the explosives... Full news...
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August 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Workers of industrial companies, moneychangers, doctors, jewellers and traders went on strike in protest against rising kidnappings in western Herat province. Moneychangers, auto spare businessmen and jewelers closed their shops in the provincial capital, where business centres wore a deserted look. Full news...
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August 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three children were killed when an explosive device they were playing with went off in the Alasai district of central Kapisa province on Monday, officials said. The incident took place in Laka Khel area, the governor’s spokesman Qais Qadiri told Pajhwok Afghan News. The schoolchildren, belonging to different families, were grassing their sheep on a mountainous meadow when they found the device. Full news...
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August 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NBC News: Afghanistan seems as fragile as ever. There is a sense that with the U.S.-led NATO draw-down expected in 2014 the country could slip back into some of its darkest most socially-restrictive and violent days. Most Afghans you speak to in Kabul or outside of the capital fear that their country will once again be overrun by the Taliban or be engulfed by a civil war. Full news...
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August 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
International Business Times: Iran has increased its support for the Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan by opening an office for the militant group in the eastern part of Iran. Moreover, the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is reportedly considering sending surface-to-air missiles to Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Taleban control of Logar, a province just south of the capital Kabul, is so complete that the insurgents’ own justice system is seen as preferable to state institutions. Locals say Taleban courts might be rough and ready, but at least they do not require bribes to be paid to massively corrupt state officials and judges. Full news...
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August 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OpenDemocracy: Afghan refugees in Iran are increasingly facing an unbearable situation as the state policies towards them become explicitly racist. They are the most vulnerable group of people in the country and they face continuing degrading and discriminatory policies dictated by a state, which ironically preaches ‘Muslim solidarity’. Full news...
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August 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A recent TOLO News investigation revealed that more than USD 1 million USD was deposited into the bank accounts of Afghanistan’s Finance Minister, Hazarat Omar Zakhilwal, over the past five years. While some funds were deposited into Zakhilwal’s accounts at Standard Chartered Bank and Alfalah Bank in Kabul, most of the money was transferred to other bank accounts outside of Afghanistan. Full news...
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July 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian & BBC Radio (Translated by RAWA): A year after the rape and murder of a young girl in northern Afghanistan, her family claims the perpetrators of these crimes threaten them and have burnt down their home. The parents of the girl have fled from their home in Rostaq district of Takhar province, along with seven of their children and come to Kabul to follow the case of their daughter. Full news...
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July 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan at least 250 missiles have been fired in three districts in this province since Saturday night in fresh wave of cross border attacks from Pakistan. Provincial governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi confirming the report said the missiles were fired in Dangam, Shegal and Nari districts where at least three Afghan civilians were injured. Full news...
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July 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An independent media group on Friday accused the information ministry of seeking to censor its news report about a recent clash between the supporters of two lawmakers in Kabul. One person was injured and a health clinic damaged during the gunbattle in the Pul-i-Charkhi locality of the capital between the gunmen of lawmakers Mullah Tarakhel Mohammadi and Haji Allah Gul Mujahid on July 23. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women, including murder, has increased in the western province of Farah this year, officials said on Wednesday. “My daughter’s hands and feet were tied up with chains and hot water poured all over her body by her husband. He killed my daughter before cutting her lips, ears, nose and other body parts with scissors,” said the victim’s father. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Are Americans getting a clear picture of just how war in Afghanistan is going? In bracing testimony before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee this week, top US military officials warned that they are not. The hearing centered around the US-funded Dawood Military Hospital in Afghanistan. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Afghanistan’s former warlords and militia leaders have slammed the leaked findings of an unpublished report that implicates hundreds of them in atrocities committed during the country’s devastating civil war in the 1990s. Titled “Conflict Mapping In Afghanistan Since 1978,” the damning report accuses up to 500 members and leaders of rival ethnic and political groups... Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: For Razi Khan, a debt of almost $900 has condemned him and his family to years of work in a brick factory in an eastern Afghan city, with little or no hope of ever paying it off. Khan has eight children. Six of them, including a 4-year-old, toil at the brick factory to pay off a crushing debt that has followed him for the past six years. Full news...
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July 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The atrocities of the Afghan civil war in the 1990s are still recounted in whispers here — tales of horror born out of a scorched-earth ethnic and factional conflict in which civilians and captured combatants were frequently slaughtered en masse. Stark evidence of such killings are held in the mass graves that still litter the Afghan countryside. One such site is outside Mazar-i-Sharif, in the north. Full news...
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