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March 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male guardian when they travel, according to new guidelines from Afghanistan's top clerics which critics say are dangerously reminiscent of the Taliban era. The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks... Full news...
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March 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, a report said Monday, despite billions of dollars in aid that have poured into the war-torn country. More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government. Full news...
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March 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 12-year-old girl on Thursday complained she had been sent to jail after being raped by her neighbour in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province. But prosecutors said that the girl and her two brothers were taken into custody after the alleged rapist, 21 years old, was publicly sodomised. Full news...
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February 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Nasreen, a young girl was murdered by local strongmen on February 25, 2012 in Anchagal village, Naray district in Kunar province. The killing was over family disputes that were not made clear. Three years ago the same people shot her with an AK-47 which severely injured her but her brother, Nematullah, saved her by taking her to a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Channel 4 News: You never have to wander far from your front door in Kabul to be confronted by the dire poverty in a city where billions have been spent in foreign aid over the past decade of occupation by the west. Where an entire sub-economy has grown up around the semi-permanent presence of foreign NGOs. Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: On my way home from work one day, I was on a Kabul bus listening to my fellow-passengers chat about the current spate of robberies and kidnappings. They said that far from trusting the police, they believed that some security officers and senior government officials were involved in these crimes. I was intrigued by this, as public faith in the Afghan government and its armed forces seems to have steadily decreased over the past ten years. Full news...
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February 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Kabul Police Headquarters on Monday said it has irrefutable proof showing that AfghanSenator, Fauzia Sadat, is linked with a group of kidnappers. Mohammad Zaher, Head of Criminal Investigation Department of Kabul Police, says a letter has been sent to the Afghan Senate House, but that some of the senators are supporting Mrs Sadat. Full news...
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February 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Cases of violence against women have increased by 10 percent during the current solar year in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Director of Women’s Affairs Anisa Imrani told Pajhwok Afghan News after a meeting in Jalalabad: “Eighty cases of violence against women were registered with her department last year, compared to 90 over the past 11 months.” Full news...
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February 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: In an attempt to find long-term solutions for the estimated 1.4 million unregistered Afghans living within its borders, Iran adopted a legalization scheme last year that paved the way for Afghans to enter Iran legally with work visas. Observers say few Afghans have taken advantage of the new programme, and instead Afghan migrants continue streaming into Iran illegally every day in search of jobs. Full news...
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February 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan, mainly from the strife-torn southern provinces, have been heading for Kabul in the hope of finding work and a better life, but most end up living in appalling conditions in makeshift camps. Besmillah (he goes by just the one name), 38, fled the southern province of Helmand with his five children and wife two years ago after a rocket landed in his compound. Full news...
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February 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA News: An international human rights group says fighting in Afghanistan has displaced half a million people who lack access to adequate housing, food and schools. London-based Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that the situation is a “horrific humanitarian and human rights crisis.” Full news...
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February 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: An Afghan radio reporter was beheaded in the insurgency-plagued southeastern province of Paktika after being lured to a meeting by unidentified men, an official said Wednesday. The body of Samid Khan Bahadarzai, 25, who worked for a local radio station in the town of Urgun, was found Tuesday night near his home just hours after he received the call. Full news...
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February 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Abdullah was left catatonic and almost mute by the electric shocks meted out to him by Iranian police before they bussed him to the border and sent him back to Afghanistan. His arms marked with slashes of red paint to identify him as a deportee, the 18-year-old lies on a bed of cushions in an otherwise bare hut that has become his temporary home... Full news...
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February 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of northern Sar-i-Pul province on Sunday warned of staging a series of protests if the governor, currently in Kabul, returned to his office. Several protests had been held against Governor Syed Anwar Rahmati over the past two months, leading the central government to send in delegations to look into the demonstrators’ demands. Full news...
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February 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: It’s below freezing, but the Afghan lies rigid in the snow of Kabul. He doesn’t move. His arms and legs are bare. He has overdosed on heroin. He only lives to see another day because of a charity. “Every night I feel I'm going to die. I sleep in the cold. I suffer,” said Zaman, whose clear blue eyes stand out from his bony, filthy face as he stands shivering in the snow near the fallen addict. Full news...
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February 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “I have knocked any door to get rid of violence but all of my complaints have fallen to deaf ears. Instead, the prosecutor accused me of lying and warned me of dire consequence,” a woman named Sadat revealed her ordeal in a weak voice while receiving treatment in Herat hospital. The bandaged wrapped image of the young woman showed by the private Tolo television... Full news...
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February 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ghulam Rasul, 71, a short man with stooped shoulders had come to the marketplace in Nili, the main town of Daikundi province in central Afghanistan, to buy sugar, matches and candy. As he sat against the mud wall of a grocery shop under the hot sun, he told an IWPR reporter about three women in his village who had consumed rat poison in the past year. Two survived, and one died. Full news...
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February 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Shakila, 8 at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about how their family had been dishonored and about how they had not been paid. 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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February 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: During the cruel cold of Kabul, more than 20 children have died in an IDP camp in the outskirts of Kabul. More will surely die, the inhabitants fear. Half-naked children are seen everywhere in the blistering cold. Hundreds live in terrible conditions which constantly threat their life, especially in winters. Full news...
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February 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The charred body of an Afghan refugee, allegedly killed by her in-laws in neighbouring Iran, was brought to southwestern Nimroz province, the victim’s father said on Monday. Abdul Basir told Pajhwok Afghan News his daughter was burnt by her mother-in-law and husband in Iran’s Sistan Baluchistan province five days ago. She had been sprinkled with gasoline before being set on fire, the father alleged. Full news...
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February 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Voice of Russia: A mass grave containing the remains of at least 20 bodies was discovered west of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghan northern Balkh province, the Pajhwok news agency says. The burial site was discovered by road constructors. Full news...
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February 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: At least eight Afghan children were killed today in Kapisa Province as the result of a NATO air strike against the Nejrab District. The attack was condemned by the Karzai government. NATO would only “confirm there has been a situation,” while promising to send a “joint NATO assessment team” to find out exactly what happened and how. Full news...
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February 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Grit: Sahar Gul was just 14 years old when she was married off to a man more than twice her age in the Bhaglan province of northern Afghanistan. Upset by her refusal to become a prostitute, Sahar’s new family kept her in a windowless basement for months, torturing her by pulling out her nails and removing chunks of her flesh with pliers. Full news...
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February 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: A record number of Afghan civilians were killed in the conflict here last year, the majority at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups whose use of homemade bombs became more prevalent and whose suicide bombers killed more people each time, according to the annual United Nations report on civilian casualties. Full news...
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February 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The following children froze to death in Kabul over the past three weeks after their families had fled war zones in Afghanistan for refugee camps here: Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1 ½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to the poles of the family tent before flopping onto the frozen ridges of the muddy floor. Full news...
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February 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Khaleej Times: With the stage set for secret talks in Qatar between the United States and the Taleban, US President Barack Obama’s strategy for a phased exit from war-ravaged Afghanistan is now being couched in nice-sounding terms that hide more than they reveal. In seeking a Faustian bargain with the Taleban, Obama risks repeating US policy mistakes that now haunt regional and international security. Full news...
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January 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The young Afghan woman gave birth to a third girl three months ago — to a husband, the authorities say, who had been demanding a boy. Last week, the man and his mother, in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, put a rope around the woman’s neck and strangled her, the police said. Full news...
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January 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An Afghan driver was shot dead by Pakistani police in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday when he failed to pay 20 rupees (less than 10afs) in bribe, a transport union official said. A policeman killed Tawab Gul, an Afghan refugee, in the Pishtakhara locality of Peshawar, said Ayaz Khan, a member of the city transport union. The victim lived in Nothia area, he added. Full news...
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January 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The dire human rights situation in Afghanistan showed few signs of progress in the past year, raising serious concerns about the future, Human Right Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While progress was made in Afghanistan in several areas, the general population and women in particular suffered from the widespread lawlessness and abuses by the security forces and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said. Full news...
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