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February 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR): Helmand's status as the opium capital of the world seems secure for the present. Sources inside the provincial government say this year's opium poppy harvest could dwarf even the record levels of 2006. And a team of eradicators sent from Kabul to destroy the crop is meeting with armed resistance even before they begin work, say local residents. Full news...
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February 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA): When Khan Aga powers up his Mercedes diesel truck and leaves Kabul for southern Afghanistan, he doesn't know if he will ever see his wife and eight children again. Full news...
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February 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A number of Hindus in the Kundoz province lacking shelter in the meantime claim that some of their residents have been occupied by powerful people. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwak Afghan News: People of Parwan expressed their concern about the increased rates of crimes and defined the main factor as the presence of irresponsible armed groups. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Standing at a security checkpoint dressed in a battered combat jacket and leaking boots, Zaralam said he had joined the "army" because he had to earn some money for his family. "It's tough working day and night, but I earn 2,000 Afghanis [US $40] a month and get some food too," the 14-year old military policeman told IRIN in the Daman district of the southern city of Kandahar. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: It may be conventional wisdom that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but for Afghan actor Hanif Hangam, the furor surrounding the film Kabul Express has been very unfortunate indeed. He has been forced to flee his homeland because of lines uttered by his character in a new Indian-American-Afghan film. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Accusations of brutality are nothing new for General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who commanded an Uzbek militia faction throughout years of civil war in Afghanistan. The international watchdog group Human Rights Watch has repeatedly alleged that he is a war criminal. Full news...
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February 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: The Philippines and Afghanistan were the most dangerous places for journalists in Asia in 2006, while Thai media suffered under a new military government and dozens of reporters remained behind bars in China, a U.S. media rights group said Tuesday in its annual report. Full news...
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February 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The proposed legislation has been criticised by the country's human rights watchdog and Malalai Joya, one of the few MPs who did not approve the bill, describing it as being tantamount to "forgiving national traitors". Full news...
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February 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via The Boston Globe: More than five years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the plundering of Afghanistan's archaeological sites and museums not only continues but has evolved into a sophisticated trade that could be financing the country's warlords and insurgents, experts say. Full news...
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February 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
DPA via TeluguPortal.Net: The United Nations office in Afghanistan has voiced strong opposition to the Afghan parliament's approval of a bill granting immunity to war-criminals and exempting them from judicial proceedings. Full news...
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February 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Pakistan says its Afghan refugee camps are a hotbed of support for a resurgent Taliban and they should be closed, but it seems no one in the Pir Alizai camp wants to go home. Full news...
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February 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaleej Times: Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials. Full news...
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February 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A leading US think-tank has asked for "removal of corrupt" governors and police chiefs to bolster people's confidence in the incumbent government in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 31, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Hindustan Times: Insurgents burned down a primary school in southeastern Afghanistan, police said on Wednesday, in the second such attack this year targeting the country's struggling education system. Full news...
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January 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: More than 1,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006, most of them as a result of attacks by the Taliban and other anti-government forces in the country's unstable south, a rights group said Tuesday. Full news...
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January 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: “We returned from neighbouring Pakistan in June 2002, after hearing that living conditions had improved and the government was providing proper shelter and plots of land for returnees, but unfortunately nothing has happened yet. Full news...
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January 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sunday Telegraph: Corrupt police and tribal leaders are stealing vast quantities of reconstruction aid that is intended to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans and turn them away from the Taliban, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Full news...
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January 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Agence France Presse: The influence of Iran is a source of tension between Shiites and Sunnis that recently exploded into deadly violence in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, residents say. Full news...
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January 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Increasing the size of the U.S.Army, strained by the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will cost an estimated $70 billion (€53.68 billion), a top Army general said Tuesday. Full news...
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January 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: On 4 November 2006, Nasima, 25, a member of a local women’s council, grabbed the AK-47 from the policeman guarding the council meeting in the Grishk district of southern Helmand province and killed herself. Full news...
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January 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Tired of the complex in-laws family hazards, a 16-year-old newly wedded woman has committed self-immolation in the northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said. Full news...
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January 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: In the capital, it is a season of unrelenting harshness for tens of thousands of poor families, focused on the struggle to survive. People spend their days scrounging to buy a few chunks of coal or firewood, and their nights huddled under common blankets around braziers called sandali, praying for dawn to come. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Yemen Times: All eyes have been on Iraq since the US invasion a little over a year ago. But Afghanistan, where the United States started its war on terror after the attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001, is full of violence, warring factions and drug-lords. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Terrorism Monitor: The Afghan media has published an increasing number of critical reports about Iran's secret contacts with insurgent groups in Afghanistan, specifically those groups fighting against the U.S. presence in the country. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MainStreetNews.Com: Madison County native Doris Aldrich will cover her head again next month and go to Afghanistan. She'll step off the plane in Kabul and ride past the starving and begging children with hands blackened by the cold. She'll feel that hurt inside that comes with witnessing suffering on a grand scale. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: The US is spending about $10 billion a month on Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year, the total funds appropriated will be nearly $600 billion – approaching the amount spent on the Vietnam or Korean wars, when adjusted for inflation. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ms. Magazine: A second drought in Afghanistan has affected over two-and-a-half million villagers, some of whom are selling their young daughters as brides in order to feed and clothe their families. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Ahmad Wali, 9, is combing the rubbish dump for soda cans to sell as a way to support his 11-member family in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Thousands of children work the streets to help their households through the harsh winter. Full news...
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January 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Paktribune.com: Seeking treatment for her grandmother is an experience Nilab will never forget. The 20-year-old from the central Logar province had brought her grandmother to Kabul for treating a fever in late July. The 70-year-old passed away after she began medication. Full news...
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