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December 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: An Afghan student has been killed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over a relationship with a Hindu girl, police say. Hamidullah, 22, who had tattooed his girlfriend’s name, Monica, on his neck, was shot dead. His friend Naseer was injured in the attack. Hamidullah had just received his management degree and was due to fly home to Afghanistan in a few days. Full news...
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December 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Twin attacks apparently targeting Shia Muslims have killed at least 58 people in Afghanistan. In the deadliest incident, a suspected suicide bomb struck a shrine packed with worshippers in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 54. Another blast hit the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif at about the same time, killing four people. Full news...
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December 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle: Once again the future of Afghanistan is on the agenda. Ten years ago in Bonn, the issue was the deployment of NATO troops and the toppling of the Taliban. This time around, the summit on Monday is set to discuss the withdrawal of international forces by the end of 2014. For German peace activists this is not fast enough. Full news...
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December 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Six civilians were killed and three others wounded when a rocket hit a civilian house in the central province of Kapisa, a senior official said on Saturday. The incident took place in the Haibatkhel area of Tagab district, where the rocket fell inside a house late in the afternoon, Governor Mehrabuddin Sapi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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December 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A powerful truck bomb exploded near the gate of a NATO base in Afghanistan Friday, killing one person and wounding as many as 70 others, including a foreign soldier, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at Combat Outpost McClain in Muhammad Agha district of Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, which took place at around 8:00am (0330 GMT). Full news...
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December 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: When the Afghan government announced Thursday that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she reported that she had been raped, the decision seemed a clear victory for the many women here whose lives have been ground down by the Afghan justice system. Full news...
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December 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than a hundred people on Thursday rallied in Kabul against the execution of death-row Afghans in Iranian jails, asking the neighbouring country to immediately release the bodies to the victims' relatives. Most of the protestors, hailing from 15 provinces, were relatives of the victims. Carrying pictures of their dead kin, the demonstrators urged the government to step up efforts at transferring the corpses of their relatives from Iran. Full news...
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November 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Sherzai was 13 years old when his uncle sold him to Taliban insurgents for 15,000 Pakistani rupees (170 dollars). “Then the Taliban told me to carry out a suicide attack,” he said, now in a juvenile correctional facility in Kabul. “They said I would be a martyr and I would go to paradise.” Full news...
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November 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A gang in north Afghanistan reportedly indignant at a father’s refusal to give his daughter up for marriage have sprayed the family of five with acid. Allegedly led by the suitor, they broke into the house in Kunduz, beat the father up, then sprayed him, his wife and three daughters in the face. The father and eldest daughter are in critical condition, doctors say. Full news...
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November 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): As a result of the firing of mortars by ISAF forces, three women were killed in one home and two others injured in another. Haji Mohammad Sarwar Khan, one of the tribal elders of the Zheray district, told PAN on 29th November that the incident took place two days back in the Nalghaam village of the district. Full news...
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November 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unidentified gunmen gang-raped a kidnapped schoolteacher in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. The woman teacher was abducted by armed men from the eighth road of Baghlan-i-Markazi district late on Thursday, Col. Mohammad Kamin, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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November 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: In Afghanistan, a media boom followed the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, but it hasn’t been without problems. Watchdog groups report hundreds of cases of violence and intimidation against journalists, including murder. Afghan reporters have learned which topics are off limits, and they take great care to avoid offending the country’s most powerful personalities. Full news...
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November 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC: Seven civilians, including six children, have been killed in a Nato air strike in southern Afghanistan, local officials say. District Governor Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi told the BBC the civilians died late on Wednesday in the Zheray district of Kandahar province. He said the strike had been launched in a remote area after Taliban insurgents were seen planting roadside bombs. Full news...
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November 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: In an effort to counter a growing insurgency in northern Afghanistan, two U.S.-backed programs in Kunduz have recruited local militias to oppose Taliban militants in the area. But while the militias are better at fighting the Taliban on the battlefield, their methods turn local populations against them. Full news...
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November 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Thousands of children roam the dusty streets and grimy alleyways of Afghanistan, working to earn desperately needed money for their families. The sight of shabbily-dressed children, sometimes as young as three years old, is a common one around the military bases and shopping areas where they ply their trades under the blazing sun of summer or the biting cold of winter. Full news...
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November 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Officials in the Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan on Sunday expressed concerns regarding increasing violence agains the women during the past six months. According to an official in the Human Right Commission of Afghanistan, Suraya Sobhrang, around 2433 violence against the women cases have been registered across the country during the past six months which shows an increase as compared to the previous year. Full news...
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November 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Eight Afghans, including seven children, were killed in two separate blasts Friday, officials said, the latest civilian deaths to hit the troubled country. In the first incident, four children died when a roadside bomb went off as they played near their home in Nangarhar province, near the country’s eastern border with Pakistan. Full news...
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November 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: With his broad cheekbones, hair swept back under a sequined cap, and the gentle manner of a well-to-do Pashtun, Atal Afghanzai might easily pass for a doctor or an engineer. Instead, his career path led into a cloak-and-dagger world of covert armies and foreign agents, until a rare lethal run-in with an Afghan police chief landed him on death row in Kabul’s most notorious prison. Full news...
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November 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Star: “The Taliban come to any house they please, by force. Then they fire from that house, and then [the International Security and Assistance Force] and the Afghan National Army fire at the house. But if I tell the Taliban not to enter, the Taliban will kill me. So what is the answer? Either ISAF kills me or the Taliban kills me. The people cannot live like this.” 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 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBS News: The former prisoner of the American military in his native Afghanistan entered the office leaning on a crutch. He said he had trouble walking after spending a year confined to a 35-square-foot jail cell at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, about an hour’s drive north of the capital, Kabul. He agreed to speak with us only if we kept his identity hidden. We agreed to call him just “Mohammed.” Full news...
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November 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: Assadullah Sher Mohammad, who is serving 12 years in Kabul’s notorious Pul-e Charkhi jail for raping and making pregnant a 19-year-old relative, said the EU “had done a good thing”. Yet his endorsement, first delivered when The Times visited him in jail two months ago and reiterated by his brother yesterday, has highlighted the EU’s growing isolation. Full news...
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November 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Eight civilians including a newly-wed groom were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest innocent victims to die despite a Taliban call to limit their deaths. The victims, who also included a woman and a child, were killed in the eastern province of Laghman when their car was blown up as they returned home after the man’s wedding party late Friday. Full news...
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November 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A mother and daughter were killed in their home in eastern Afghanistan Friday by armed men who apparently accused them of “immoral activities,” officials and neighbours said. The two attackers burst into the home of the widow and her daughter in Ghazni city at around 4:00 am and shot them dead, said Ghazni provincial police chief Zilawar Zahid. Full news...
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November 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A civilian was killed during a clash between Taliban fighters and security forces in the western province of Farah, officials said on Friday. The clash erupted on Thursday evening in the Shiwan village of Bala Boluk district when Taliban fighters attacked a police checkpoint, the district police chief, Maj. Abdul Basir, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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November 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: Sonia stole some money from her mother’s dresser and fled the house in such a panic that it was only in the road outside that she realised her shoes were different colours. But by then it was too dangerous to turn back. Shrouded in a burka and with tears streaming down her face, the 14-year-old was fleeing an arranged marriage to a Taleban insurgent. Full news...
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November 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: In many countries, including Afghanistan, begging has been regarded as a taboo, but in this war- ravaged and poverty-stricken country, many people including women has adopted begging as a profession to support their families. “Continued conflicts have destroyed my life, claimed the life of my husband and forcing me to beg for alms in order to survive,”... Full news...
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November 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The San Francisco Chronicle: Hardly anyone noticed, but the Afghan government cut the budget for the state’s Independent Human Rights Commission by half this year, evidencing “the government’s lack of interest and political will in the promotion of human rights,” the commission said. Nowhere on Earth is the work of a human rights commission more important than in Afghanistan. Why is that? Full news...
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November 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NNI: U.S. Special Operatiozns Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals.U.S. soldiers dismount from their vehicle and prepare to raid a series of compounds in the Maywand District of Afghanistan on Nov. 22, 2010. Full news...
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November 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Fox News (Blog): Ten years on and not halfway there. That was the assessment of the war in Afghanistan that was delivered last month by retired four star General Stanley McChrystal. In a speech, our “former top U.S. military commander in the war said the United States and its allies are only “50 percent of the way” toward achieving their goals,” Yahoo News reported. Full news...
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