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April 15, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: In parliament, well-known warlords are there. In that situation, how do you expect [the] implementation of democracy and the rule of law -- unless those people are removed from their positions and weakened, at least, and educated people are given a chance -- [those] who think positively about the betterment of their country. Not for themselves. Those [warlords] are collecting money and putting the money in their pockets. They do little or nothing for the society and for the people. Full news...
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April 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Afghan detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being transferred home to face closed-door trials in which they are often denied access to defense attorneys and the U.S. evidence being used against them, according to Afghan officials, lawyers and international rights groups. Full news...
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April 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Feministe.us: It’s like a perfect storm of right-wing policies: The War on Drugs, women’s liberation by way of imperialism, and “freedom” at the barrel of a gun. The vast majority of the world’s opiates originate in Afghanistan. To fight drug production, the solution has been to target individual farmers and destroy their crops — without offering them any other option for survival. Full news...
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April 3, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: Forceful seizure of the properties of the people is a crime that has been committed by most of the warlords of Afghanistan in the last three decades. On December 12, 2007 powerful commanders of General Dostum’s Junbish-e-Milli Islami named Commander Kamal and Haji Payinda Mohammad grabbed about 500 acres of land of the people of Zayee tribe of the Said Abad District, Sar-e-Pul province. The actual owners who were about 500 families were forced to move out of the area. Full news...
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April 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: International aid and debt relief for Afghanistan has been thrown into doubt by the country's failure to honour an agreement with the International Monetary Fund and warnings that its three-year development masterplan could be rejected. Full news...
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March 31, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament passed a resolution Monday seeking to bar television programs from showing dancing and other practices deemed un-Islamic. Full news...
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March 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: There were no employment opportunities and any projects to attract workers, the youths complain, on the other hand current drought caused the locals in this Northern Province to sell their animals on through away prices and go where they can help their families living. Full news...
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March 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: AFGHANISTAN emerged as the world's third most volatile country, topping even Iraq, according to a report published yesterday, two days after Afghanistan's bloodiest attack in months on a non-government organisation. Full news...
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March 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Le Monde: Afghanistan should be a textbook case, a model, the very paradigm of the "reconstruction" of a failing state under the auspices of a mobilized international community. There were so many hopes and promises right after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime which al-Qaeda had made its rear base! Full news...
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March 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: The international aid effort in Afghanistan is in large part "wasteful and ineffective", with as much as 40 per cent of funds spent going back to donor countries in corporate profits and consultant salaries, Kabul-based charities will say today. Full news...
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March 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: The prospects for peace in Afghanistan are being undermined because Western countries are failing to deliver on aid promises — and because much of the aid money they do send is going to expatriate workers, according to the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief, an alliance of 94 international aid agencies. Full news...
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March 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: The homes in the fancy Shirpoor neighborhood are a child's fantasy of mirrored columns, rainbow-colored tiles, green glass, imposing arches and high gates. They also are evidence of what has gone wrong with Afghanistan, almost seven years after the Taliban was chased from power into the mountains. Full news...
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March 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Novinite.com: The Afghan authorities and Afghanistan's Embassy in Bulgaria are searching for their former ambassador to Sofia who has not come back to her home country after her term of office expired. Full news...
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March 6, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five Taliban militants, who escaped from the heavily-fortified Pul-i-Charkhi Prison on the eastern periphery of Kabul a day earlier, had been sentenced to death and long jail terms, one fugitive said on Thursday. Full news...
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March 5, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: The UN International Narcotics Control Board says the rise in Afghanistan's opium cultivation is "alarming" and that its effects - including an increase in organised crime, corruption and the incidence of drug use - are spilling over into Iran, Pakistan and the central Asian republics. Full news...
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February 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: On the outskirts of Kabul stands probably the nicest prison wing between Warsaw and Tokyo — complete with security cameras, electronic locks, shaded visiting areas and UN-approved levels of natural light. Full news...
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February 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan is sitting on a wealth of mineral reserves -- perhaps the richest in the region -- that offer hope for a country mired in poverty after decades of war, the mining minister says. Full news...
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February 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Food shortage and cold weather compelled over 100 children to run away from Ghazni province orphanage, a report claimed on Sunday. Full news...
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February 8, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Afghan journalists live and breathe their country's dream of a better future. But they also live under the shadow of its violent past. Full news...
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February 6, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Afghanistan' s attorney-general says criminal charges are pending against Abdul Rashid Dostum -- a senior military adviser to the president and a powerful ethnic Uzbek militia commander who allegedly abducted his former election campaign manager last weekend. Full news...
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January 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ForeignPolicy.com: Someone please explain to me how this is supposed to be justice. A 23-year-old journalism student named Sayad Parwez Kambaksh supposedly goes online, finds an interesting paper, and prints it out. He supposedly brings it to class at Balkh University, discusses it with a teacher and some fellow students. The paper gets copied and distributed. Some students find it objectionable; they say it is offensive and that it insults Islam. They complain to the government. Full news...
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January 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Gul Hussein was standing under a pale street lamp in a poor section of east Kabul when the entire neighborhood suddenly went black. “As you can see, it is dark everywhere,” the 62-year-old man said, adding that his family would light a costly kerosene lamp for dinner that evening. “Some of our neighbors are using candles, but candles are expensive, too.” Full news...
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January 9, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian: Mullah Naqibullah, one of the Taliban’s top commanders, has apparently escaped from prison and given several interviews to reporters. He claims he escaped by bribing security officials. Full news...
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January 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Kabul Press: Mr. Gary K. Helseth, General Director of the 600 millionUSD-a-year United Nations Office of Project Services-Afghanistan(UNOPS) who had worked in Afghanistan for over 20 years, left the country two months after this report was first published. His U.N. e-mail addresses are not functional, and so far, we have been unable to contact him for additional information. Full news...
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December 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ION: A man in his thirties suddenly threw himself on a busy road in Kabul and yelled, “kill me and drive over me. They can’t feed us; the easier way is to kill me and my children. Oh people, for God's sake, come and kill us,” shouted the apparently exhausted man lamenting the government's failure to provide him with a livelihood. Full news...
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December 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: After two years in which the violence in Afghanistan has become worse, it is hard to see signs of hope in 2008. The detailed new international commitments, and promises of more money, put forward at the London Conference in January 2006, made little headway as the war against the Taliban went into a new phase. Full news...
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December 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The CorpWatch: In September, on a tree-lined street in the most expensive neighborhood in Kabul, dozens of men rolled out of armored vehicles in front of a little-known U.S. security company. Backed up by Blackwater guards, Afghan authorities and Americans from the FBI and the U.S. State Department quickly headed for the offices of United States Protection and Investigations (USPI). Once inside, they arrested four of the Texas-based company's management team and confiscated 15 computers. The two Americans arrested were later released, while the Afghan managers remain in custody. Full news...
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December 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: This has been the worst year so far for Afghan journalists, say media watchers. Afghanistan's media have enjoyed remarkable degree of freedom over the past six years, making this one of the most visible achievements of the post-Taliban era,. But increasingly, as security deteriorates and the public mood sours, media outlets are coming under pressure from government and other powerful elites. Full news...
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December 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: But now through Australian media were informed that Sayad Anwar Shah and Sayed Zubair, both cousins of the well-known Afghan criminal Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf (fundamentalist leader of Itehad-e-Islami Party and currently member of the Afghan parliament), were running a religious school in Australia. But according to a recent news item in Australian papers, the director has been charged with fraud over the alleged theft of $355,934 from the college's federal funding. Full news...
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December 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan may not reap the full benefit from the biggest foreign investment in its history, a copper mine to be built by a Chinese company, if full safeguards are not set in place, an independent watchdog said on Wednesday. Full news...
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