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  • April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Private firm caught in 560m USD land scam
    PAN: At least 140 acres of government-owned land in the Rahman Mina neighbourhood of Kabul, where a township is being built, has been grabbed by the private Onyx Construction Company. The area that has been converted into residential plots by Onyx was surveyed in 1979 and classified as state property meant for a green belt, shows documentary evidence provided to Pajhwok Afghan News by the Kabul Municipality.      Full news...

  • April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Impoverished Afghans shouldering burden of health care
    Reuters: Afghanistan’s government and foreign donors spend barely 10 USD a person on health, despite pointing to it as key to winning back support against a worsening insurgency that has dragged on for nearly a decade, a study said Sunday. The other 31 USD per person that makes up the country’s meager health spend comes from Afghans themselves, many of whom struggle to provide doctors and drug care for their families...      Full news...

  • April 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    10-Year Old Afghan Girl Claims She Was Raped
    PAN (Translated by RAWA): A small girl, present in the administration of the Women’s Affairs of Sar-e-Pul, claimed she was raped by two of her uncles, but health officials say it has not been confirmed yet and further medical examinations are needed to prove the claim. 10-year old Nazanin, claimed that one year back her two step uncles raped her, and her paternal grandparents tortured, beat and poured hot oil on her.      Full news...

  • April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    U.N.: 7 million Afghans will go hungry without aid
    Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over 250 million USD to buy more supplies. Most of those who will go short of food are women and children, but overall those at risk make up nearly a quarter of the country's population of around 30 million...      Full news...

  • April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Corruption in Afghanistan: The elephant in the room
    Global Post: Just ask Vice President Joe Biden about corruption in Afghanistan. During a now-famous dinner with Hamid Karzai during the 2008 U.S. election year, then-Sen. Biden questioned the Afghan president about corruption in his government. Karzai assured him that reports had been overblown by the Western media. Biden threw down his napkin and walked out.      Full news...

  • April 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Herat Addicts Rise to Over 70,000
    TOLOnews.com: The number of drug addicts in the western Herat city has risen to over 70,000, provincial officials say. Herat addicts mainly include jobless youths most of whom have returned from Iran. They were addicted to drugs while living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Governor of Herat said.      Full news...

  • April 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    58 incidents of violence on journalist occurred last year
    PAN: Fifty-eight incidents of violence against journalists have been registered in Afghanistan over the past one year, the Media Watch said on Monday. “Government officials are involved in 26 incidents of violence on journalists, unknown men in 18, NATO-led ISAF soldiers in 9, media people in three and Taliban fighters in two,” Siddqullah Tawhidi, told a press conference in Kabul.      Full news...

  • April 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban-style dress code for Afghan weddings
    Guardian News & Media: When plans to regulate Afghanistan’s booming wedding industry were announced earlier in the year, the government said it merely wanted to curb the country’s mania for lavish weddings that drag people into debt. But according to drafts of the law it is also aiming to introduce various public morality provisions in yet another sign of the casual erosion of the small freedoms women have won since 2001. And in an echo of the Taliban regime, which used to police weddings ...      Full news...

  • April 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Malalai Joya: US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region
    The Harvard International Review: It is an open secret today that the US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region. All terrorist fundamentalist groups from Al-Qaeda to the Taliban and our warlords of the Northern Alliance were created, funded, and nourished by the CIA during the cold war. The green belt of extremism and Jihad concept, which was funded and implemented by the CIA through ISI of Pakistan, has caused all of the current problems, and the US still needs these groups to advance its long-term war agenda in the region.      Full news...

  • April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US military holds terror suspects in secret jails for weeks without charge
    The Associated Press: “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press.      Full news...

  • April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Poppies making a strong comeback in Afghanistan
    IWPR: After several years of attempting to earn a living by growing crops other than poppies, frustrated farmers in Kapisa province are once again producing the raw material for heroin. They say soaring drug prices, along with the government’s failure to fulfill the promises it made as part of its eradication program, left them no choice.      Full news...

  • April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    8 Afghans shot dead near Iran border
    PAN: Iran’s border police killed eight Afghans trying to cross the border into the neighbouring country near the Islam Qala dry port in western Herat province, an official said on Thursday. The Afghans were killed by Iranian border police guards when they attempted to enter Iran last Friday night, a police official, who did not want to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Poverty keeps women, girls from school in Bamyan
    PAN: The number of women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields, construction and other hard labour is increasing in central Bamyan province, with many having to give up school to contribute to the family’s finances. Zahra, 36, lives in Surkh, and says she has worked as a farmhand for the past eight years.      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Two women hung in Jowzjan province of Afghanistan
    Afghanistan Today (Translated by RAWA): General Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the police chief of Jowzjan, gave news suicide committed by two women, saying, “The first woman named Gul Bibi, wife of Abdul Ghafar of the Qorm Qila village of Mardian district, hung herself with a rope at seven in the morning at her home.” The second incident, he said, took place in the city of Jowzjan in the Chetgiri area...      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghans complain about NATO-led raid that killed 6
    McClatchy Newspapers: A night raid by NATO-led forces killed six civilians in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul, local officials said Tuesday, but a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said the dead were Taliban insurgents armed with AK-47 assault rifles. The disagreement adds to the debate surrounding night raids, which have become a centerpiece of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan...      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    ISAF vehicle kills woman in Kabul
    PAN: A woman was killed and another woman and a child were wounded when they were hit by a vehicle of foreign troops in Kabul on Wednesday, police said. The accident happened when a military vehicle belonging to NATO-led soldiers collided with a civilian car on the Darul Aman road in the limits of sixth police district, crime branch police chief, Col. Mohammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Landmines kill almost 52 civilians per month last Afghan year
    PAN: Almost an average of 52 civilians lost their lives per month last year due to landmine explosions in Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday. The number of civilian casualties caused by landmines decreased last year, compared to the previous year, Haider Raza, the head of Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA), told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Foreign soldiers kill civilian in Kabul: Residents
    PAN: Residents of a district in central Kabul province on Monday accused foreign troops of killing a shopkeeper and taking away his son during an overnight raid. The incident happened Sunday night in Chaar Asyab district of Kabul when NATO-led troops attacked the house of Yasin, a relative, Ghulam Rassoul, said.      Full news...

  • March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Pregnant women stabbed to death in Parwan
    PAN: A husband fatally stabbed his pregnant wife on Thursday due to a family dispute in the central province of Parwan, an official said. Hamidullah, 34, killed his 22-year-old pregnant wife on Thursday morning in Deh Maskin area of Bagram district, deputy police chief, Col. Abdul Razaq Quraishi, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Arab Revolutions Inspire Afghan Youth
    NPR: After watching the protests that led to the downfall of regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, Afghan youth are expressing revolutionary sentiments. “I am counting seconds for the day when 20 of my friends call me and ask me to go out on the streets to protest against the notoriously corrupt government of [Afghan President Hamid Karzai] and the violence of the Taliban,” says 19-year-old university student Ahmad Seyar.      Full news...

  • March 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Self-immolations increase in Herat
    PAN: Self-immolations have increased over the past year in western Afghanistan, but fewer people have died from their injuries, doctors say. The main causes of self-immolation are violence in families, poverty, drug addiction and forced and early marriages. A number of women who attempted to kill themselves say they did so because they were unhappy with their lives and families.      Full news...

  • March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Audit of Pentagon Spending Finds 70 Billion USD in Waste
    New York Times: Despite improvements, more than half of the Pentagon’s big weapons systems still cost more than they should, with management failures adding at least 70 billion USD to the projected costs over the last two years, government auditors said Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office, a Congressional watchdog, said the biggest program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, accounted for 28 billion USD of that increase.      Full news...

  • March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan women suffering from domestic violence: official
    Xinhua: Ignoring women rights and violence against women in Afghanistan’s western Herat and neighboring provinces has prompted 88 women and girls to commit self-immolation in an attempt to get rid of domestic violence over the past one year. In the war-torn Afghanistan where people, mostly in rural areas practice upon tradition the women and girls are facing a variety of violence...      Full news...

  • March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Number of children born with deformities increasing
    PAN: The number of children born in Afghanistan with misshapen limbs and other deformities is increasing, doctors say, with several blaming intermarriage, drug use and chemicals contained in coalition weapons. There are no exact statistics of the number of children born with disabilities, but anecdotal evidence from hospitals in Kabul and the provinces suggests it is increasing.      Full news...

  • March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Elite Borrowed Freely From Kabul Bank
    The New York Times: When a brother and a nephew of an Afghan vice president wanted to build up their fuel transport business, they took out a $19 million loan from Kabul Bank. When a brother of the president wanted to invest in a cement factory, he took out a $2.9 million loan; he also took out $6 million for a town house in Dubai. When the bank’s chief executive wanted to invest in newly built apartments in Kabul, he took almost $18 million.      Full news...

  • March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    War crime images the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see
    Rolling Stone: Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions.      Full news...

  • March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Foreign soldiers take 9 family members to base in Logar
    PAN: The international coalition arrested nine members of a family, including an imam, and took them to their base in central Logar province, an official said on Monday. “The people taken from Wazir Qala were ordinary people, but the foreigners said they recovered a Kalashnikov from the house, and that the people had links with the Taliban,” he said.      Full news...

  • March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Suicide Bombing Kills 24 in Afghanistan
    VOA: Officials in eastern Afghanistan say three suicide car bombers have attack a construction company, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others. Authorities said the attack happened late Sunday in the Barmal district of Paktika province, when the bombers killed a security guard and then detonated a truck full of explosives.      Full news...

  • March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Malalai Joya, Noam Chomsky Denounce US Occupation of Afghanistan
    War Is A Crime.org: In two jam-packed appearances this weekend, Afghan feminist leader Malalai Joya reached at least 1500 people with her denunciations of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. She spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky to 1200 people at Harvard’s Memorial Church Friday night and to 300 in Jamaica Plain this afternoon.      Full news...

  • March 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Seven Afghan civilians killed in NATO air strike
    AFP: Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday.      Full news...



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