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May 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: On Labour Day, hundreds of labourers on Friday staged a protest demonstration in the capital Kabul, demanding work opportunities. The rally was organized by the National Labour Union aimed at pressing the government to increase wages of labourers. Mohammad Maroof Qadari, the NLU leader, asked the government to implement labour laws, increase salaries of government officials and facilitate workers. Full news...
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April 30, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A woman in Andar district of Ghazni province has been hospitalized after reportedly surviving an attempted beheading by her husband’s family. In connection to the crime, local police have apprehended the woman's husband and launched a full investigation. Full news...
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April 29, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Gulalay is excited. She is getting ready to celebrate her sixth birthday. She has been to the local bazaar with her grandfather and bought herself a new frock, a colourful hairband and a pair of hand-knitted socks. Frolicking on her way home, Gulalay cannot see the improvised explosive device buried in the dirt. One unfortunate step is all it takes. Full news...
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April 28, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: At least 52 people are missing and feared dead following a landslide in a remote village in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. Officials in the province of Badakhshan, about 600 kilometers from the capital, Kabul, are arranging helicopters to fly to the village to rescue survivors, said provincial governor Shah Waliullah. Full news...
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April 27, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TomDispatch: If our wars in the Greater Middle East ever end, it’s a pretty safe bet that they will end badly - and it won’t be the first time. The “fall of Saigon” in 1975 was the quintessential bitter end to a war. Oddly enough, however, we’ve since found ways to reimagine that denouement which miraculously transformed a failed and brutal war of American aggression into a tragic humanitarian rescue mission. Full news...
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April 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A 16-year-old boy who confessed to having been gang-raped by Taliban commanders and forced to carry out a suicide attack has been arrested in Kabul, National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement Sunday. Would-be suicide bomber, Bilal, said that Muzamil, Hijrat (known as Abozar), Tahir and Honzala were the four Taliban commanders who sexually abused him in Bati Kot district of eastern Nangarhar, NDS said. Full news...
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April 25, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy: A total of 1.3 billion USD that the Pentagon shipped to its force commanders in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014 for the most critical reconstruction projects can’t be accounted for by the Defense Department, 60 percent of all such spending under an emergency program, an internal report released Thursday shows. Full news...
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April 24, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): On April 24, members and supporters of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) gathered to protest and condemn the dark days of 28th and 27th April. In this gathering there were 1600 participants and the main slogan read: “Let us prosecute the criminals of 27th and 28th April!” Full news...
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April 23, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The commander of an armed group in Farah has been accused of the kidnap, rape and torture of a 17-year-old boy, said the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization on Thursday. According to the human rights group, the boy was allegedly kidnapped in Farah province by Hamid Bakhto, a relative of the provincial council head. Full news...
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April 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Abdul Hady Arghandiwal, the former minister of economy, has been accused of corruption related to his role as a member of the Special Procurement Commission presiding over the now infamous Ministry of Defense (MoD) fuel contracting process. On Tuesday, while he did not deny that corruption existed within the commission, Arghandiwal distanced himself from any wrongdoing by calling on legal authorities to punish all those involved in bribery. Full news...
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April 20, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man shot dead his brother’s wife and another man after accusing them of having a sexual relationship in the Sarobi district of central Kabul province on Monday, police said. Sarobi police chief Col. Mir Salam Adamkhel the incident took place in the centre of the district at around 4pm. The man, Tila Mohammad, shot dead his brother’s wife and another man, Faiz Mohammad, inside his home. Full news...
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April 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press: A suicide bomb attack on a bank branch in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad killed at least 33 people on Saturday, with the country’s president blaming the violence on the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. "In the horrific incident in Nangarhar [province], who took responsibility? The Taliban didn’t claim responsibility. Full news...
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April 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In a war full of failures, the US counternarcotics mission in Afghanistan stands out: opiate production has climbed steadily over recent years to reach record-high levels last year. Yet one clear winner in the anti-drug effort is not the Afghan people, but the infamous mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater. Full news...
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April 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Members and supporters of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) staged a protest in Shahre Naw Park in Kabul today, to defend the blood of the victims of Badakhshan (the brutal killing of more than 30 soldiers by Taliban and ISIS in an attack on a check post), and Mazar (killing of more than 10 people in a courthouse attack by the Taliban), and to demand the freedom of 31 of our compatriots held hostage by the Taliban (in Zabul province). Full news...
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April 15, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A massive portrait of a middle-aged man towers over the Ferris wheel and giant mushrooms at an amusement park here. At night, the image is bathed in an ethereal light, visible from a quarter-mile away. His admirers call him “Ustad,” or “Teacher.” His critics call him the King. Full news...
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April 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Afghan Taliban and foreign militants waving the flag of Daesh are responsible for the deadly ambush on an Afghan National Army (ANA) outpost in northern Badakhshan province this week, TOLOnews’ correspondents on the ground in the province reported on Monday. According to ANA officials in Badakhshan, the failure to repel the ambush, which ultimately resulted in over 20 fatalities, was a result of the central government’s lack of response to requests for greater support resources. Full news...
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April 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Anadolu Agency: At least 30 Afghan soldiers have been killed, eight of them beheaded, and several others were abducted after militants stormed army checkpoints in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Afghan officials said Monday. According to Afghan sources, on Friday night, some 200 Afghan and foreign militants launched an assault on army and police checkpoints in Jurm district of northeastern Badakhshan province, bordering with China. Full news...
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April 12, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RTT: In the first three months of 2015, civilian casualties from ground engagements rose by eight per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures released by the United Nations Sunday. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has warned that the toll is likely to rise in the coming summer months. Full news...
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April 11, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban publicly executed three persons in western Farah province on charges of robbery and murder, a militant said. The group has said the executions had taken place on Friday in Juma Bazaar locality of Bakwa district. Full news...
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April 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: It is an unimaginably hideous outcome. To be raped by your cousin’s husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to suffer the ignominy of global uproar about your jailing and assault, but be pardoned by presidential decree; and then to endure the shame and rejection from a conservative society that somehow held you to blame. Full news...
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April 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnew.com: The oversight committee for Ministry of Defense (MoD) agreements has revealed the extent of corruption regarding fuel contracts – corruption that totals about 100 million USD. The committee said that leading companies collaborated with each other and with MoD, the Directorate of Reconstruction and Development and the Special Procurement Committee and charged Afghanistan over 100 million USD above the daily market rate. Full news...
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April 8, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnew.com: Hundreds of residents in the Ashtarlay district of Daykundi province embarked on a protest on Tuesday over what they call the presence and harassment of irresponsible armed men. They have as a result called on the National Unity Government (NGU) to deal with the issue. Full news...
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April 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: For the past year, the 17-year-old has lived in a shelter in Afghanistan’s capital, hoping for a new life away from the sexual abuse that turned her family inside out. Her father sexually abused her from when she was nine years old and let his friends to do the same. She didn’t tell anyone, she said, because she didn’t understand what was happening to her. Full news...
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April 6, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FSRN: Pakistan hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world, and more than 1.5 million of those refugees are from neighboring Afghanistan. Many refugees first arrived decades ago during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and young generations of those families were born on Pakistani soil. Full news...
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April 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Members and supporters of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan joined the people of Jalalabad city (eastern Nangarhar province) in a protest demanding justice for Farkhunda and the prosecution of arch-criminals. More than 500 men and women took part in this protest, and asked for the prosecution of the people who are actually behind this crime. Full news...
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April 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Bulletin/News Desk: A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 17 people and injured 60 when they detonated their explosives in the midst of a demonstration in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday. The blast hit locals in Khost province who had for the past week been camping in protest against alleged corruption of provincial governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi. Full news...
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April 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Among the 31 hostages there are two brothers - Syed Reza and Ali Gawhar - whose mother and other loved ones mourn their absence and traveled to Kabul this week to put pressure on the central government to take action in order to secure the release of the hostages. Full news...