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August 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man killed his sister and two young men for allegedly committing adultery in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said on Sunday. The “honour killing” took place in Pailoch area of Deh Yak district when the brother shot dead his sister along with two men for having “illicit relations,” the town’s administrative head Fazal Ahmad Tolwak told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Local officials on Thursday alleged that 136 rockets fired from across the border in Pakistan had landed in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province over the past two days. A hundred rockets were fired by the Pakistani forces on Wednesday and another 36 early on Thursday, the governor’s spokesman, Wasifullah Wasifi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Abdul Karim walked for nearly 12 hours to cross the border into Pakistan and escape the warlords who were raining rockets on his neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul. That was nearly two decades ago, when he was a young teenager. Since then, he’s gotten married and raised six children, all born in Pakistan. Full news...
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August 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: It was once President Barack Obama’s “war of necessity.” Now, it’s America’s forgotten war. The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It’s not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress – even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day. Full news...
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August 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: What happened in Kunar Province in Afghanistan on Saturday, August 18? One thing we know: dozens of dead bodies, following an airstrike by the US/NATO command on what the American military says was a gathering of Taliban officials. But, typical of the eleven-year-old war, even scores of deaths in a remote location barely register on the Richter scale of casualties... Full news...
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August 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Left Foot Forward: The death of another two British soldiers last week in Helmand was followed by the usual 30-second Colonel’s voxpop on the 10 o’clock news and accompanied by the standard release of heartfelt messages of condolence from their surviving comrades on the MoD website. Other than the quick delivery of facts, there has been very little analysis of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by the British media. Full news...
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August 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Local government officials in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan said a young Afghan girl was raped by two men in this province. The officials furhter added the eight years old Afghan girl was raped in Qaisar district at Ghori Raheen village three days back. Full news...
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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: After US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly walked off a US base in Kandahar last March and went house to house, killing a total of 17 Afghan civilians, many worried that the Taliban would capitalize on the incident and the long restive province would revert to violence. Yet more than five months later, violence in Kandahar remains at record lows. Full news...
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August 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Three suicide bombers killed at least 30 civilians in a coordinated attack Tuesday in a city in southwestern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials. Later, at least 10 civilians were killed in a bombing in a bazaar in the north. The attacks began early Tuesday afternoon when 10 insurgents entered Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimruz province... Full news...
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August 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Express Tribune: Outside Peshawar’s mosques, after Friday prayers, magazines with articles and pictures of attacks by the Afghan Taliban and violence carried out by Nato forces are distributed, most of the time for free. The magazines are usually accompanied by guidance on Shariah law. These magazines are available in a number of languages including Urdu, English, Farsi and Dari, reaching out to a wide-ranging audience. Full news...
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August 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
National Times: Senior Defence Department officials feared the WikiLeaks expos? of secret US military reports would undermine public support for the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan, according to newly released briefing papers. Reports about a corrupt Afghan warlord who works closely with Australian special forces were considered particularly sensitive. Full news...
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August 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A local reporter on Saturday complained that he was beaten by security guards of the governor of central Uruzgan province. Najibullah Latif, who works for Yawali and Paiwastoon radio stations, said he was thrashed at 7:30 am when his car struck a vehicle of the guards. Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan, a number of Afghan civilians were killed following night time military operation by coalition security forces in this province. Khashrod district chief Haji Mohammad Hashim said, at least four Afghan civilians were killed and two Afghan kids were injured during a military operation by coalition forces last night. Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: One recent early morning, Bibi Hajira was milking the cows when a blast knocked her unconscious. “When I woke up I was in the hospital with head injuries. My left arm and right leg had both been hit. I don’t remember anything else but that blast.” When Hajira returned home, she found her cow dead, and her goats and sheep injured. “I still get very scared every time I hear the sound of a rocket. It has a nasty sound.” Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A remote-controlled bomb has ripped apart a bus in a popular picnic spot just a few miles north-west of Kabul, killing nine civilians and injuring five others, in a worrying sign of violence encroaching upon the Afghan capital. Paghman district is secure enough that a mob of furious villagers chased down and attacked a man they spotted detonating the explosives... Full news...
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August 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Workers of industrial companies, moneychangers, doctors, jewellers and traders went on strike in protest against rising kidnappings in western Herat province. Moneychangers, auto spare businessmen and jewelers closed their shops in the provincial capital, where business centres wore a deserted look. Full news...
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August 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three children were killed when an explosive device they were playing with went off in the Alasai district of central Kapisa province on Monday, officials said. The incident took place in Laka Khel area, the governor’s spokesman Qais Qadiri told Pajhwok Afghan News. The schoolchildren, belonging to different families, were grassing their sheep on a mountainous meadow when they found the device. Full news...
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August 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OpenDemocracy: Afghan refugees in Iran are increasingly facing an unbearable situation as the state policies towards them become explicitly racist. They are the most vulnerable group of people in the country and they face continuing degrading and discriminatory policies dictated by a state, which ironically preaches ‘Muslim solidarity’. Full news...
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July 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian & BBC Radio (Translated by RAWA): A year after the rape and murder of a young girl in northern Afghanistan, her family claims the perpetrators of these crimes threaten them and have burnt down their home. The parents of the girl have fled from their home in Rostaq district of Takhar province, along with seven of their children and come to Kabul to follow the case of their daughter. Full news...
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July 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan at least 250 missiles have been fired in three districts in this province since Saturday night in fresh wave of cross border attacks from Pakistan. Provincial governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi confirming the report said the missiles were fired in Dangam, Shegal and Nari districts where at least three Afghan civilians were injured. Full news...
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July 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An independent media group on Friday accused the information ministry of seeking to censor its news report about a recent clash between the supporters of two lawmakers in Kabul. One person was injured and a health clinic damaged during the gunbattle in the Pul-i-Charkhi locality of the capital between the gunmen of lawmakers Mullah Tarakhel Mohammadi and Haji Allah Gul Mujahid on July 23. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women, including murder, has increased in the western province of Farah this year, officials said on Wednesday. “My daughter’s hands and feet were tied up with chains and hot water poured all over her body by her husband. He killed my daughter before cutting her lips, ears, nose and other body parts with scissors,” said the victim’s father. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Afghanistan’s former warlords and militia leaders have slammed the leaked findings of an unpublished report that implicates hundreds of them in atrocities committed during the country’s devastating civil war in the 1990s. Titled “Conflict Mapping In Afghanistan Since 1978,” the damning report accuses up to 500 members and leaders of rival ethnic and political groups... Full news...
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July 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The atrocities of the Afghan civil war in the 1990s are still recounted in whispers here — tales of horror born out of a scorched-earth ethnic and factional conflict in which civilians and captured combatants were frequently slaughtered en masse. Stark evidence of such killings are held in the mass graves that still litter the Afghan countryside. One such site is outside Mazar-i-Sharif, in the north. Full news...
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July 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A prayer leader was detained on the charge of sexually abusing a schoolgirl during the holy month of Ramazan in northern Samangan province, the Ministry of Interior said. A statement from the ministry said the detainee from Dara-i-Sauf district was a prayer leader at a mosque in Aibak, the provincial capital. He was arrested on Sunday night. Full news...
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July 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Herald: When at the Bonn conference in 2001 Hamid Karzai was appointed Afghanistan’s interim president by his international supporters, he came to occupy this position without any local backers. He had no traditional constituency and no political party, but has been able to exert his power for the past 10 years through his strong associations with the international community... Full news...
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July 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police had arrested a man accused of sexually harassing a 13-year-old boy in northern Balkh province, an official said on Sunday. A day earlier, Mohammad Nasir, a resident of the Pul Zori village in Chamtal district, told the police his son, Mohammad Ismail, was sexually abused by two men at gun point. Full news...
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July 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters whipped two suspected kidnappers in the Charkh district of central Logar province on Saturday, said an official. The rebels brought the suspects on motorcycles to the Shash Qala bazaar and asked locals to converge on the area, a resident of the district, Abdul Basir, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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July 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A member of the Bamyan Provincial Council, Wahidi Beheshti, is accused of killing a young girl named Shakila on January 22 this year in his own house. She had been raped by Beheshti and then killed with a gun of his bodyguard. Beheshti’s family claimed Shakila had committed suicide; however forensics proved that she had been killed. Full news...
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July 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: Windblown villages of mud houses surround the huge Bagram Airfield north of Kabul. These poor villagers make a living in ways that can also kill them: They graze their animals or forage for scrap metal — often on a NATO firing range. The East River Range dates to the 1980s, when the Soviet army occupied Afghanistan. Full news...
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