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  • May 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A young woman hung to death by husband
    Killid Group (Translated by RAWA): A young woman was hung to death by her husband in Ghazni province according to a report of Radio Killid. Shukria Wali, head of the Women’s Affairs of Ghazni, confirmed the news and told the radio that Halima, who was 35-years old, was killed the night before in the Tawghi Sang Masha village of Jaghori district. She said the reason for the murder was domestic violence and her husband was in police custody.      Full news...

  • May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan family of eight killed in NATO airstrike
    Al Jazeera and agencies: Afghan authorities say that at least eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition in the eastern province of Paktia. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition said it was aware of the allegation and was investigating the incident, which happened late on Saturday night.      Full news...

  • May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US troops arrest 4 civilians in Faryab: official
    PAN: US troops arrested four civilians during an overnight operation in northwestern Faryab province, where one policeman and two militants were injured during a clash, officials said on Sunday. The US Special Forces from the Bagram airfield in central Parwan province carried out the operation on the house of a local resident named Makhdoom Habibullah in the Deh Naw village of Sabz Posh district, Abdullah Masoomi, the district chief...      Full news...

  • May 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    43 Takhar schoolgirls poisoned again
    PAN: Once again radicals opposing girls’ education on Sunday poisoned more than three dozen schoolgirls in northern Takhar province, the third incident of its kind over the past two months, officials said. The victims, students of the Bibi Hajira High School, situated on the 5th road of Taloqan city, the provincial capital, fell sick for unknown reasons...      Full news...

  • May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Badakhshan students protest against ISAF
    PAN: Students staged a protest against foreign forces for detaining their schoolmates and teachers in northeastern Badakhashn province on Thursday. Two university lecturers, two schoolteachers and as many studetns were detained during a joint operation by Afghan and Internatioal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) personnel in the Gul Dara area on the outskirts of Faizabad, the provincial captial.      Full news...

  • May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Girl accuses local policeman of raping her
    PAN: A teenage girl in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday claimed a local policeman raped her and held her captive for several days. A group of policemen, led by Commander Mohammad Ishaaq Nizami, forcibly entered her house and took her away last week, the 18-year-old alleged.      Full news...

  • May 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    More than 120 Afghan girls poisoned in second anti-school attack
    Reuters: More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country’s north, Afghan police and education officials said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms. Scores of students were left unconscious.      Full news...

  • May 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    MP’s brother accused in girl murder case
    PAN: Relatives of a teenage girl, who was found dead in her brother-in-law’s house last year, on Monday accused a provincial council member of shooting her during a court hearing in central Bamyan province. The 16-year-old victim, identified as Shakila, was found shot dead in the Zargaran village on the outskirts of Bamyan City, the provincial capital.      Full news...

  • May 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US war veterans tossing medals back at Nato was a heroic act
    The Guardian: In the shadow of the Nato summit, under the watchful eyes of a phalanx of full-black-clad riot police, dozens of former servicemen and women in uniform, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, threw away their medals, with apologies. It was one of the most moving experiences many of us had witnessed in our lives. It is hard to describe in words.      Full news...

  • May 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Rep. Rohrabacher urges Clinton to invite Afghan warlords to NATO Summit
    Examiner.com: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to invite members of Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance to this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago. Yet, especially given Rohrabacher‘s strong human rights record, many Afghans are wondering why his NATO guest list is stacked with warlords that have as much blood on their hands as the Taliban.      Full news...

  • May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Civilians shot dead by private security guards
    PAN: Two civilians were killed and three others injured by an ISAF convoy guards on the Kandahar-Kabul highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, an official said. The men, residents of Shah Joi district, came under fire from the private security guards at 1pm east of Qalat, the provincial capital, the town’s administrative head told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan probe: 5 civilians killed in NATO airstrike at Kunar
    Khaama Press: A delegation of the Afghan officials who were assigned to probe NATO air raid in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed following the airstrike in this province. Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid Afghan lawmaker representing eastern Kunar province and a member of the delegation who visited the area said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed and 2 others were injured at Watapur district.      Full news...

  • May 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    600 students poisoned in Khost
    PAN: Hundreds of schoolchildren were poisoned in the Ismailkhel Mandozai district of southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in the Urzi area, where all the 600 students of a middle school were poisoned, education department spokesman Syed Musa Majrooh told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • May 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence in Afghanistan claims 13 lives
    The Associated Press: Taliban militants dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up after being caught trying to sneak through a checkpoint Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, killing five people, authorities said. Police at the checkpoint in Paktika province’s Yayakhil district became suspicious of the men and told them to stop, said provincial police chief Dawlit Khan Zadran.      Full news...

  • May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Call to rein in Kunduz militias
    PAN: Hundreds of residents including tribal elders, influential and Ulama, urge the government to stop militiamen from harassing people in northern Kunduz province. The militia is a voluntary armed tribal force created by locals to ensure security for their communities. However, they are presently deployed as an armed force but with no official rank in the government. They are equipped and supported by the government and US forces to fight the rebels.      Full news...

  • May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    14 civilians killed in two NATO airstrikes, Afghan officials say
    Crienglish.com: Fourteen civilians were killed and six others injured as warplanes of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) raided the suspected Taliban hideouts in Badghis province 555 km northwest of capital Kabul on Monday, local officials said Tuesday. “The aircraft of NATO-led forces raided the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in Balamirghab district in the wee hours of Monday but it mistakenly struck residential houses as a result 14 civilians including women and children were martyred...      Full news...

  • May 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Senate wants the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan to be put on trial
    Salam Watandar (Translated by RAWA): In today’s session of the senate, the head and its members criticized the protest of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan against the 27th and 28th April, that was held the day before. Hundreds of SPA members condemned the perpetrators of the 27th and 28th April revolutions in their demonstration, and demanded the prosecution of the Jehadi leaders and commanders, members of the Khalq and Parcham parties and the group of Taliban.      Full news...

  • May 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Deadly Afghan-NATO raid sparks protests
    The Associated Press: Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents. The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such operations with U.S. forces taking a back seat.      Full news...

  • April 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Hundreds demonstrate against war criminals in Afghanistan
    Khaama Press: Several protesters on Monday demonstrated against the war crimes which took place during 27/April/1978 after the Democractic Republic Party of Afghanistan toppled down the government of Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan and 28/April/1992 after the Mujahideen toppled down the Pro-Soviet government.      Full news...

  • April 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Youth Group Targets Former Warlords Ahead Of Contentious Holiday
    RFE/RL: A new Afghan youth group is making waves in Kabul with an unprecedented campaign against the country’s former warlords. Members of the Afghan Freedom-Loving Youth Group swept through the streets of Kabul this week, putting up hundreds of posters and spraying graffiti messages critical of the strongmen, many of whom still wield significant influence on the country’s political affairs.      Full news...

  • April 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Obama’s War in Afghanistan is a Disaster
    Socialist Alternative: In January 2012, a video published on websites such as Youtube revealed four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. On February 20, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan incinerated several Qur’ans, leading to weeks of protest that left six U.S. military personnel and 30 Afghans dead. Three weeks later, U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales went on an unprovoked killing spree that left 17 Afghan civilians dead, mostly children.      Full news...

  • April 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
    The Huffington Post: Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us a glimpse into chronic anxieties among civilians throughout Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • April 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US atrocities in Afghanistan
    The Nation: I remember once I had a meeting with Hamza Khan, an old Afghan refugee, residing somewhere at a refugee camp in Peshawar. He told me that he had been in Pakistan for the last twenty years. His son Shahzeb Gul was ten years old when the family had to migrate to Pakistan; now that ten years boy is a grownup man of thirty with a family of four children and their mother.      Full news...

  • April 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Textbooks Skip Decades of Violence
    IWPR: In a highly controversial move, Afghanistan’s education ministry has dealt with the complexities of the last four decades of turmoil and war by simply omitting the entire period from the new history textbooks it is issuing to schools. Officials argue that the decision to pass over contentious events of recent history is an attempt to heal rifts in Afghan society and avoid further strife.      Full news...

  • April 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers
    The Los Angeles Times: The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts.      Full news...

  • April 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    100 girl students apparently poisoned in Takhar
    PAN: More than 100 girl students were hospitalised, apparently poisoned, after drinking water at their school in northern Takhar province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the afternoon at a girl’s school in the Rostaq district, Mustafa Rassouli, the governor’s office acting spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Coordinated suicide attacks rock Afghanistan
    AFP: Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province.      Full news...


  • April 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    3 protesters killed in Faryab protest against night raid
    PAN: Three protestors were killed and another 33, including eight policemen injured, during a clash in northern Faryab province, officials said on Friday. More than 1,000 people took to the streets on Thursday in Maimana, the provincial capital, against the operation that resulted in the death of madraasa teacher Qayamuddin in Arab Khan area.      Full news...

  • April 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Lashing Highlights Use Of Shari’a Law
    RFE/RL: It’s the type of punishment that many thought would vanish with the fall of the Taliban, but Shari'a law is alive and well in Afghanistan. One unidentified 20-year-old man has felt the full force of the Islamic legal code in the northern Afghan province of Baghan.      Full news...



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