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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Hundreds of millions of dollars lost to fraud at Afghanistan’s biggest bank could have been saved if foreign consultants hired by the US government had not ignored obvious signs of trouble, a damning report says. A US government watchdog finds highly-paid western contractors working in the Afghan Central Bank failed to raise the alarm even after they received death threats when they tried to audit Kabul Bank. Full news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Armed men raped a 12-year old girl in a village in Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Her family members say six of these men were wearing police uniforms. The local Women’s Affairs office in Takhar confirmed the incident and the police of the province say they are searching for the criminals. Full news...
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May 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The charity has warned that unless the international community acts immediately the country will not be secure enough to hand over to Afghan forces in 2014. The report, titled No Time to Lose, claims Nato is not doing enough to prevent abuses by Afghan police and “time is running out” for change. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Talk Radio News Service: 56 percent of likely voters want to see the U.S. remove troops from Afghanistan as soon as next year, according to a new Rasmussen poll. The numbers reflect the highest level of opposition to date against the ongoing military presence. 35 percent of those polled said that they would like to see American troops pulled out immediately... Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Headless bodies of four students were on Monday found in a village in southeastern Khost province, a public representative said. The decapitated young boys belonged to two families living in Zoor village of Musakhel district. Their bodies were found Monday morning near the village, Shafiq Mujahid, a provincial council member, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
EconomyWatch.com: Iraq and Afghanistan sit near the top of a list of the world’s most corrupt nations despite years of occupation by Anglo-American forces and more than 1 trillion USD of US taxpayers’ money having been spent on the two nations since 2001. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) from the Berlin-based watchdog rated Somalia... Full news...
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May 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Intense fighting has taken place in Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs. The Taliban said it was behind the triple assault on the provincial governor’s office, the Afghan spy agency and a police station. At least two people were killed and 23 injured in the fighting, which spread panic on the streets. Full news...
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May 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “Nearly 70 percent of women dying from pregnancy related problems in my province due to the limited access to health centers and professional midwives,” a young Afghan midwife Fatima Hamdard from the country’s central Wardak province told Xinhua recently as the International Day of Midwife falls on Thursday. Full news...
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May 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says a man shot during a battle with Australian Special Forces soldiers was a civilian, not an insurgent. An infant also died from gunshot wounds he received in the firefight. The relatives of the victims say that Australian troops took innocent lives, but the Defence Force says the case is still being investigated. Full news...
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May 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: On 1 May, the US president addressed the nation, announcing a military victory – 1 May 2003, that is, when President George W Bush, in his form-fitting flight suit, strode onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. Under the banner announcing “Mission Accomplished”, he declared that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Full news...
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May 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The best place in the world to be a mom is Norway, where maternal and child mortality rates are low, women’s life expectancy and years in school are high, and the average maternity leave is about one year, a new study measuring the well-being of mothers and babies shows. Australia and Iceland join Norway at the top of Save the Children’s 12th annual Mothers Index, released Tuesday. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five children, playing cricket, were injured when a mortar shell landed near them in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, residents said. The incident took place in the Manogi district in the evening, resident Yar Pacha told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said it was not known from which where direction and who fired the shell. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The dead body of a 40-year-old pregnant woman was found in northern Samangan province on Sunday morning, a police official said. The corpse was recovered in the Shahid Andkhoi Aibak neighbourhood, the acting crime branch, Capt. Asadullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Asadullah said the woman’s body had been transferred to the Aibak Civil Hospital. Her address is yet to be ascertained. Full news...
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April 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian, December 13, 2003: It was meant to be a rare success story. According to the Afghan minister of culture, the small mound of soft yellow earth at Bazy-Kheil, 20 miles east of Kabul, was one of the country's few protected archaeological sites. But as Mohammed Zakir, one of Afghanistan’s five archaeologists, puffed to the top, he saw something was badly wrong. Full news...
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April 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Weasel Zippers: Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25. Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents... Full news...
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April 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: The great escape from Sarposa prison began with a knocking beneath the floor. A 25-year-old Afghan recounted in a telephone interview Wednesday how three inmates at the prison in the southern city of Kandahar were expecting the knock. When it came about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, they knew what to do. They knocked back. Full news...
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April 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank Abdul Qadir Fitrat on Wednesday named some of Kabul Bank shareholders who were allegedly involved in misusing clients’ deposits. Despite risks, the stakeholders were named to resolve the crisis, Fitrat told the Wolesi Jirga -- the lower house of the Parliament, which summoned him to explain the story of Afghanistan’s largest private bank. Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Naqibullah was about 14 years old when U.S. troops detained him in December 2002 at a suspected militant’s compound in eastern Afghanistan. The weapon he held in his hands hadn’t been fired, the troops concluded, and he appeared to have been left behind with a group of cooks and errand boys when a local warlord, tipped to the raid, had fled. Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said. “I saw a woman who was publically humiliated and tortured because she had allegedly lost her virginity before her wedding night,” said Suraya Subhrang, a women’s rights commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns, including Berlin, Dortmund, Bremen Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Duesseldorf and Stuttgart. German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns... Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Newsweek: The young Afghan hates his new school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. “My classmates only talk about girls and movies,” he complains. A tall, thin 17-year-old with the straggly beginnings of a beard, he yearns for the high school he used to attend, a few miles away in the Afghan refugee camp known as Shamshatoo. Full news...
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April 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Catholic San Francisco: Recent reports have raised concern about the impact of the war in Afghanistan on civilians in Afghanistan and in Pakistani border areas that have been the focus of drone strikes targeting Taliban leaders. In Afghanistan, the first two months of 2011 saw a dramatic deterioration in the security situation for ordinary Afghans, the International Committee for the Red Cross said March 15. Full news...
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April 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than a dozen people, including six civilians, have been killed in an ongoing firefight between insurgents and NATO-led soldiers in the Alasai district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Saturday. “With the clash still in progress, seven insurgents and six ordinary people have so far been killed, and there are fears of more casualties,” Alasai district chief, Mullah Mohammad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three road workers were killed during an airstrike by foreign troops in the southeastern province of Khost, a private construction company official said on Friday. A fourth worker was wounded during the overnight air raid by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Sperai district, Faqir Mohammad Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: TWO Afghan women were killed in an operation in eastern Afghanistan that also left 17 insurgents dead, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said today. Local officials had previously said that two women and a child died in the fighting late Tuesday in the Dangam district of Kunar province. “The security forces returned fire, killing the insurgent and what turned out to be two women he was hiding behind,” an ISAF statement said. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Government officials in northern Afghanistan are building up their own ethnic-based militia groups to expand their influence and keep the Taliban at bay. But the spread of mostly Tajik and Uzbek militias is aggravating tensions with local Pashtuns—the country’s largest ethnic group but a minority in the north—some of whom say they are being driven to turn to the Taliban... Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Air pollution in Afghan big cities particularly the capital city Kabul has reached alarming point as head of National Environment Directorate, Mustafa warned last Sunday of dire consequences if air pollution is not checked. “Living condition would become impossible within the next seven years if the status quo of air pollution continues in Kabul and other major towns,” Zahir said... Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: One irony of the current security situation in Afghanistan is that foreign forces, whose ostensible aim is to protect civilians while fighting the Taliban, may be responsible - directly or indirectly - for the bulk of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country, whose number is rising. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Media Monitors Network: “The purpose for which Afghanistan was invaded — to secure safe passage for a gas and oil pipeline from Central Asia and lay hands on the rich mineral deposits of Afghanistan — has not been achieved so far. Yet there is growing anxiety among ordinary Americans over the extended military mission that has nearly bankrupted America. Full news...
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April 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FNA: An Afghan lawmaker disclosed on Monday that the foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan are involved in the production and trafficking of illicit drugs in the country, adding that the British troops have even trained a number of experts for opium cultivation. “As long as foreign forces are present in Afghanistan, the cultivation, production and trafficking of drugs will continue in the country,” Nasimeh Niazi told FNA. Full news...
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