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August 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: A series of attacks in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 20 people -- all but one of them civilians -- in the space of less than 24 hours, officials said Saturday. Ten people died when a group of insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in the country’s western Herat province Friday evening, police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. Full news...
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August 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two separate domestic violence incidents claimed four lives in Badghis and Ghazni provinces, officials say. In the western province of Badghis, a man shot dead his wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law in Dara-i-Boom area of Qades district on Wednesday night, the district chief said. Full news...
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August 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of remote areas in southern Ghazni province complain they have to take their sick women to the provincial capital for treatment due to the shortage of lady doctors in health clinics in their areas. A Giro district resident, Kamal Shah, whose wife has been admitted at the civil hospital in Ghazni City, said there was no lady doctor in health centres in his home town. Full news...
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August 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three women, including a young girl, have been murdered in northern Kunduz, Takhar and northwestern Faryab provinces, officials said on Tuesday. An 18-year-old girl was mistakenly killed by his brother while cleaning his gun in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz on Wednesday evening, the district chief, Imamuddin Quraishi, said. He said an investigation had been launched to ascertain if it was a deliberate murder. Full news...
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August 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: The young boy does not say a word. His eyes water as he turns away, staring out the window or at the mud walls of his family home in Dasht-e-Qala, in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province. Just across the river and over the hills lie Tajikistan and the vast expanse of Central Asia. Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see. Full news...
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August 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three women were among five civilians killed during two separate but near simultaneous roadside bombings in the Charchino district of central Uruzgan province on Sunday, officials said. The three women and one child were killed and another child wounded when a landmine ripped through their vehicle in the Sarab area, moments after another similar blast killed one civilian and wounded another on a motorcycle in the same area... Full news...
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August 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women has increased in northern Takhar province, where 180 cases were registered over the past four months, compared to 100 incidents during the same period last year, an official says. Takhar Women’s Affairs director Razm Ara Hawash told Pajhwok Afghan News during an interview that her department was deeply concerned about the increasing incidents of violence against the gender. Full news...
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August 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Those who speculate that Iran will somehow absorb western Afghanistan into its sphere of influence when US and NATO forces drawdown in 2014 have not been through the doors of the threadbare “Public Library and Cultural Center” in Herat. Full news...
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August 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A bomb planted in an Afghan graveyard killed 14 women and children on Thursday, many of them picnicking at the graveside of a family member during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said. The bomb exploded in a rural district of eastern Nangarhar province, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. Full news...
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August 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: “The bomber took the life of my only son and changed this year’s Eid festival into a sea of sorrows for me,” says the mother of a 24-year-old who was among 14 killed in a February suicide attack in northern Kunduz province. The attack left another 19 people injured in Kunduz City, the provincial capital. Most of those killed were traffic police officials. They included counterterrorism chief, provincial traffic police chief and Abdul Qadir, the only son of Laila. Full news...
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August 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unknown men raped and strangled to death and hanged a 13-year-old boy from a tree in the capital of northern Sar-i-Pul province, officials and family said on Tuesday. Sar-i-Pul police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Rauf Taj said the boy was found dead late on Monday in the first police district of the provincial capital. He identified the victim as Mohammad Sharif, son of Faiz Mohammad. Full news...
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August 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Of all the challenges the United States faces as it winds down the Afghanistan war, the most difficult might be closing the prison nicknamed “The Second Guantanamo.” The United States holds 67 non-Afghan prisoners there, including some described as hardened al-Qaeda operatives seized from around the world in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. More than a decade later, they’re still kept in the shadowy facility at Bagram air base outside Kabul. Full news...
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August 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The US government has awarded more than 150m USD (98m GBP) in contracts to companies and individuals in Afghanistan that are known to support the Taliban, according to a US spending watchdog. Multimillion dollar contracts have been given over the past five years to 43 companies working in construction, logistics, road building and IT that have links to the insurgents. Full news...
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August 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Big weddings and bigger dowries -- the bane of Afghan society -- are responsible for serious and widespread social problems, reveals an Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) investigation. Bridegrooms bear the cost of lavish marriage celebrations that include pre-wedding parties, dowry or money for the bride’s family and Sharia Mahr, for the bride. Full news...
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August 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NBC News: A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing another suicide bomber and eight other people in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Saturday, an official said. Abdul Zai, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said three suicide bombers wearing explosive vests were driving toward the Indian Consulate in the city when they were stopped by the security services. Full news...
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August 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: At the juvenile detention centre in Kandahar there are two sets of children. The first are riotous and loud, arrested for theft and other crimes of that sort. When you give them a piece of paper and ask them to write down the reason they are in prison, they simply scratch lines into the paper or scrunch it up. They can’t write. The second group are silent. Full news...
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August 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents took to the streets against the alleged molestation and murder of a child in northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Friday. While denouncing police negligence in the rape-murder of the 12 years old, the demonstrators called for the early arrest of the perpetrators of what they called an “outrage”. Full news...
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August 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Zarsanga, a tiny 5-year-old with serious eyes who, like many Afghans, uses a single name, was inside her home in rural Ghazni province, playing on the floor with a 3-year-old cousin, when a firefight broke out nearby between Afghan soldiers and insurgents. Full news...
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July 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in western Badghis province of Afghanistan, a Mullah Imam has been arrested by Afghan police in connection to death penalty of a girl in this province. Provincial security chief Sharafuddin Sharfa said the Mullah Imam had issued a Fatwa for death penalty of an Afghan girl, who was later executed over adultery charges. Full news...
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July 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: The Afghan boy was returning from his sister’s house when he saw three men planting something in the ground. As he approached he tripped a wire, and seconds later a land mine blew off his leg. “I blame the Taliban for this,” 16-year-old Khalil, who goes by one name, told Al Jazeera. “The Taliban saw me coming towards the mine, but they did not warn me. They plant a lot of mines in the area. Once they planted a mine in front of our house.” Full news...
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July 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UNICEF: When Farzana was 10 years old, her father, a farmer and labourer in a small village in western Afghanistan, arranged for her to marry a man 40 years her senior. The groom, already married and the father of six children – most of them older than Farzana – paid 9,000 USD to Farzana’s father in return for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Full news...
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July 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There has been an upsurge of violence on the highways in the south and east of the country. Journeys that took only a few hours three years ago can be interminable. There are daily bloody skirmishes, trucks carrying NATO supplies are targeted by magnetic bombs and IEDs, and civilians travelling on work could be stuck for hours because of blockades by security forces. Full news...
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July 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A journalist on Saturday accused the governor of central Parwan province, Abdul Basir Salangi, of beating him in front of his friends at a restaurant in Kabul. Nasratullah Iqbal, who works with a private news agency, claimed the incident took place on Friday night when he was visiting his friends at a restaurant, where the governor arrived along with his bodyguards. Full news...
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July 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Nearly 12 years after U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan, two-thirds of Americans think that the war was not worth the cost, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Friday. Twenty-eight percent think the war was worth it, and 43 percent say that it has contributed to the country’s long-term security. Full news...
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July 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Fifteen-year-old Afghan schoolboy Emran Khan is proud of his detailed knowledge of Pakistani history. Questioned about the number of provinces in Pakistan, he smiles and answers confidently, “Four states – Sind, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan.” Asked when Pakistan became independent, he immediately replies that it was on August 14, 1948. Full news...
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July 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AlterNet: Drug users are drawn to bridges. They offer a modicum of privacy and camaraderie to go about the illegal business of staving off opiate withdrawal and tamping down painful feelings. On a recent trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, I stood among dozens of men injecting heroin and inhaling opium vapors huddled under scarves in small groups under the Pul-i-Sokhta bridge – the name means “burned bridge.” Full news...
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July 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police have arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly molesting his three and a half years old niece in northern Badakhshan province, while another man stabbed his wife to death in northeastern Takhar, officials said on Tuesday. The alleged incest took place in Tashkan district, a remote border town, on Monday, Badakhshan police chief Brig. Gen. Imamuddin Mutmaein confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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July 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The programmes – modelled on Western favourites such as The Voice and Pop Idol – are hugely popular in a country with a young population and where television ownership has rocketed since the Taliban were ousted from Kabul in 2001. At the same time there is a growing backlash against what many see as foreign values. Full news...
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July 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: There is not an ounce of fat on the wiry frame of Abdul Wahid, and no wonder. After he finishes his morning work shift, he walks 10 miles down mountain trails in northern Afghanistan to the first road, where he catches a bus for the last couple miles to the teacher training institute in Salang. He walks back up the mountain another 10 miles to get home, arriving well after dark, just in time to rest up for his day job. Full news...
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July 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Only a fraction of Kabul’s streets are paved properly. The vast majority of roads are nothing but potholes and dirt. Yet contractors regularly overshootroad-building budgets. The Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) investigates the money trail. Kabul Municipality has accused the Turkish-owned Copy International, and three Afghan companies, Hewadwal, Latifi and Quyash Niazi, of inflating road-construction costs. Full news...
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