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February 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Afghanistan’s central-bank governor said he will issue new currency restrictions to stem an exodus of billions of dollars in cash—some of it in stolen U.S. aid and drug money—flowing out of the country as foreign forces withdraw. Some 4.6 billion USD in cash, more than the entire government budget, was taken abroad through Kabul airport alone last year... Full news...
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February 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The water supply department director of western Herat province has been appointed as inspection and corruption-control officer at the Supreme Court, six months after he was fired on charges of corruption and embezzlement, a senior official said on Sunday. Habibullah Zawran, the former Herat water supply department head, had been charged in 13 embezzlement cases after a three month investigation by the supervisory board... Full news...
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February 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: If war is what happens when diplomacy fails, what results when diplomats themselves fail to be, well, diplomatic with one another? At the Afghan Embassy in Washington, the answer was a punch in the face. Last week, after an argument over who was going to put together a filing cabinet and where it would be placed... Full news...
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February 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: One morning in May, 21-year-old Atifa says her father, Ali Mohammad, raped her. She says her father returned from the local market in Alizai village, in the Balkh province of northern Afghanistan, and found her at home alone. She says he took a rope lying in the courtyard, tied her up and assaulted her. According to Atifa, none of the neighbours came to rescue her despite her screams. Full news...
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January 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: Drug addicts are pathetic but sometimes happy people. They are pitiable in their hopeless enslavement to something that dominates and will probably kill them, but seem content in a warped sort of way because they can be taken out of their bleak and dismal lives into who knows what warm and cozy cocoons of whirligig private ecstasy by use of narcotics that will ravage their minds and bodies. Full news...
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January 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Fox News: Afghanistan has suffered from foreign meddling since its inception. But while Pakistan’s role has been widely discussed -- most Afghans will point to concrete examples -- Iran’s involvement is more subtle. Iranian influence is all encompassing--the Islamic government funds Afghan Shiite sects and politicians, has invested in building roads and providing fuel and transport... Full news...
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January 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Illegal gunmen have prevented contractors from clearing roads of snow in western Ghor province, an official said on Monday. The gunmen sought money from contractors in return for letting them continue snow-clearing operations, the Afghanistan Natural Disasters Management Authority head for Ghor said. Full news...
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January 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A couple of heavy snowfalls in Kabul guaranteeing that a drought won’t hit Kabul this year, made life all the more harder on its poor people. Already battered by war waged by the foreign forces and Taliban, poverty and cold mercilessly put people on a test for survival. The prices of fuels rose like every year but the prices of food items skyrocketed this year as Pakistan has closed the most used trade route. Full news...
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January 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: As Afghanistan marked the eighth anniversary of its constitution this month, legal experts bemoaned the failure to put it into practice, blaming conflict, corruption and a culture of impunity. The constitution passed on January 4, 2004 laid out a vision of a modern Afghanistan committed to human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Full news...
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January 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: All Rahmatollah wants is the paperwork allowing him to cross from Afghanistan into Pakistan so he can take a sick relative for treatment. For the last fortnight, though, he has been standing outside the census office in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan, waiting to be served. “The officials aren’t here. Even if they are, they only work two hours a day,” Rahmatollah, a resident of Charchino district, told IWPR. Full news...
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January 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three policemen were detained in connection with the abduction of children in central Logar and southeastern Paktia provinces, an official said on Sunday. One policeman in Paktia and two in Logar were arrested on the basis of complaints from residents, the Logar crime branch chief told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, say electricity remains suspended for 22 hours a day in the city, but officials promise solving the problem soon. “We have the light for two hours in 24 hours since last six days,” said a resident of Dasht-i-Shor area on the outskirts of the city. Full news...
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December 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday ordered the release of a prominent presidential aide two hours after his arrest on corruption charges, according to two officials in the office of Afghanistan’s attorney general. The release capped a comedy of errors in which the attorney general’s office first announced the arrest of the official, Noorullah Delawari, on corruption charges... Full news...
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December 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: US-trained Afghan village police have committed some human rights abuses, a US military inquiry has found. The investigation followed a report by Human Rights Watch that alleged some Afghan Local Police units had committed abuses including rape and murder. Recommendations made by the US investigation include increased human rights training for the ALP, plus stronger oversight. Full news...
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December 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Truck drivers have accused highways police of taking money from them illegally in southeastern Paktia province. Police manning checkpoints along highways took money from truck drivers for different reasons, owner of a truck, Jamal, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He alleged police on duty on the Khost-Gardez and Gardez-Ghazni highways were more merciless in this regard. Full news...
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December 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Armed men stopping and robbing travellers on the highways are a recurrent theme in Afghanistan. But when the groups involved are being paid to provide security, there is clearly a problem. In the southern province of Helmand, people interviewed by IWPR said they were tired of the men working for commercially-run security firms who were making their lives a misery. Full news...
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December 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Pakistan Army and intelligence establishment are aiding 28 insurgents groups that are toeing their line, Afghan officials alleged on Wednesday. The Pakistani security agencies were using the militant outfits to achieve the goals that they could not realise themselves, the officials told a media briefing in Kabul. Full news...
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December 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: Somalia and North Korea are perceived as the most corrupt countries, a report released this week said. New Zealand, on the other hand, comes in at number one with the most sparkly clean reputation for corruption. The report, released by German watchdog organisation Transparency International, ranked Britain as 16th least corrupt on a “corruption perceptions index” while the U.S. came in at number 24. Full news...
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December 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The 50+ billion USD foreign aid that the United States has dumped on Afghanistan over the past decade is a textbook case of how foreign handouts drag a nation down. Full news...
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December 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: The elected assembly for the western Afghan province of Herat is under fire from police and prosecutors, who accuse its members of corrupt practices including getting crime suspects released. Allegations of interference in the affairs of local government and policing reflect tensions between the 19-member elected council and the executive, local observers say. Full news...
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November 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Kabul Municipality officials on Tuesday said that 70 percent of high-rise buildings in the capital were illegally constructed, blaming the relevant authorities for failing to take action in this regard. The Onyx Construction Company’s building in Kalola Pushta and others in Nawabad, Mirwais Maidan Road and Sara-i-Shomali were built without permission from the government, an official said. Full news...
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November 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Salon: It’s not exactly breaking news that Afghanistan is rife with corruption. But a new Congressional Research Service report obtained by Salon underscores just how bad things have gotten — and just how much taxpayer money is being lost to fraud. Full news...
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November 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pakistan Observer: AS part of the Great War in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai has convened a farcical show of hand-picked cronies in Kabul, called Loya Jirga, to endorse plans for long-term strategic relationship between the United States and Afghanistan that, among other things, would legitimize establishment of six US permanent military bases in the strategically located country. Full news...
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November 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: A US-funded survey in Afghanistan says that 73 per cent of the population is satisfied with the government’s performance, a claim which leaders and analysts have disputed as being far from reality. The survey, published by Asia Foundation, a US-based non-profit with more than a dozen offices across Asia, also said that nearly half of Afghans think their country is moving in the right direction. Full news...
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November 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: In a parliamentary scandal of a peculiarly Afghan variety, former members are failing to hand back the firearms they were issued with. As well as around 400 Kalashnikov rifles and pistols, computers have gone missing from former members’ offices, parliamentary staff say. Although the loss of weapons and other items may seem minor in a country awash with guns and plagued with corruption... Full news...
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November 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: A controversial film depicting the plight of Afghan refugees in Iran was pulled at the eleventh hour in Kabul, sparking angry allegations that the authorities had caved into pressure from Tehran. As the furore over the cancellation escalated, the Afghan parliament summoned information and culture minister Sayed Makhdum Rahin, who has oversight over such events. Full news...
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November 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: If it weren’t for the tank traps and grey blast-walls, the extravagant mansions in Kabul’s most expensive neighbourhood would not look out of place in a fairytale. Ornately gilded pillars hold up pastel-hued balconies; brightly coloured domes crown mosaic walls made of mirrored tiles. Yet Sherpur district, which 130 years ago hosted General Frederick Roberts’s cantonment during the Second AngloAfghan war, is anything but magical. Full news...
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October 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The residents of Khanisheen district of southern Helmand province on Saturday accused private security guards of complicity in armed robberies. The guards of private security firms, deployed along highways, have hand in thefts, resident Balo Aka, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He alleged the guards brazenly searched passengers and extorted money from them. Full news...
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October 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: At least two Afghan cabinet ministers have embezzled millions of dollars of public money, the country’s anti-graft chief said at the weekend, adding to Western pressure on President Hamid Karzai to clean up his government. Donor countries say corruption in Karzai’s administration is endemic, and a fundamental threat to their efforts to stabilize the country... Full news...
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October 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: I was going from the centre of Kapisa province to my own district, Tagab, in a crowded taxi one day. Passengers normally chat to each other in Afghanistan, mostly discussing the political situation and the government’s activities and deficiencies. When the vehicle crossed a bridge or a road, the passengers complained that although they had only been built two months ago they had already been destroyed. Full news...
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