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August 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was among at least 22 killed, mostly civilians, during a two-pronged militant attack on government buildings in Uruzgan province last month. An independent investigation has now found he appeared to have been shot dead by American weapons after the attackers were already dead. Full news...
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August 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Pioneer: The Pakistani spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), with the help of Taliban, has revived the Al-Huda outfit of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar to target Indians in Afghanistan. As many as 350 persons have been trained so far particularly to target Indian business interests and development works being executed in the war-torn country. Full news...
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August 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: An Afghan policeman shot dead taxi driver Mohammad Jawid Amiri six month ago, for no apparent reason. According to a Kabul police official, the shooting was an accident, and the offending policeman is now behind bars. That’s news to the family of 27-year-old Amiri. They say the only contact with the policeman they had since the shooting was when his family offered a sheep and three bags each of rice and flour as compensation... Full news...
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August 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southern Ghazni province protested on Saturday against the killing of four civilians during a nighttime operation by international troops. NATO-led troops killed the civilians during the offensive in the Ghonday area of Gilan district late on Thursday night, resident Zainullah told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Under the cover of darkness, a 9-year-old girl and her mother ran from their stone and mud home on the outskirts of Kabul. They feared the wrath of her stepfather. “My father was beating me and my mother,” said the girl, who to protect her identity will be referred to as simply Zarina. “He would insult my mother and sometimes wouldn't bring us food.” Full news...
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August 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: A series of attacks by insurgents in recent days killed numerous civilians, but for the most part failed against military targets. As many as 24 civilians were killed and eight wounded on Thursday morning when two mines planted on a road in western Herat Province exploded, Afghan officials said. Full news...
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August 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 22 people have been killed and many wounded when a roadside bomb hit a crowded minibus in the Afghan province of Herat, officials say. Officials said the bus was full and women and children were among the casualties. It was travelling from Obe district to the provincial capital, which recently passed to the control of Afghan forces. Full news...
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August 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghanistan joined the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but disabled people claim there has been no positive change in their lives. The disabled want work opportunities, vocational training, and a higher monthly salary from the government, saying 650 afghanis a month could not solve their problems. Full news...
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August 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: As the tides of war turn against them in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as government and ISAF forces drive deep into territory they once controlled, the Taliban are increasingly targeting children as both victims and weapons of war. The Taliban, never great proponents of education, have a long history of attacking schools and students, particularly girls. Full news...
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August 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Five civilians were killed Saturday morning when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, 555 km south of capital city of Kabul, a spokesman for the provincial government said. “A civilian mini-bus touched off a roadside bomb at around 10: 00 a.m. local time Saturday in Nahri Sarraj district triggering a powerful blast that left five civilians dead,” Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua. Full news...
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August 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 27-year-old woman reportedly committed self-immolation due to a family dispute in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, said Col. Mohammad Jan Abed, the deputy police chief. He linked the suicide attempt to domestic violence. A sister-in-law and mother-in-law of Fazala, the victim, have been arrested for investigation, he said. Full news...
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August 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: Australia’s most vital local ally in Afghanistan, controversial warlord Matiullah Khan, has become chief of police in Oruzgan province, after years of receiving money for his fighters to work alongside Australian special forces. Matiullah Khan and the local governor were targeted last month in one of the most serious Taliban attacks this year... Full news...
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August 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Around 200 Afghans burned tyres and blocked key roads near the presidential palace on Tuesday in angry protests after at least three people were killed over a land dispute. The unrest flared just southeast of the Afghan capital Kabul when members of the Kuchi nomadic tribe clashed with guards working for a housing project linked to the family of lawmaker Qais Hasan. Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops have allegedly been detaining and harassing civilians after 31 US Special Force members were killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province. Naimatullah, a resident of the Joyee Zarin area, told Pajhwok Afghan News US forces had besieged the Tangi Valley and have been searching people’s houses. Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's east on Monday but there were no apparent casualties, officials said, another stark reminder of the dangers of the war after 38 people were killed in an air incident, the largest single loss for foreign forces in 10 years. A worrying surge of military deaths is being matched by record casualties among civilians... Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: In his sprawling office in Kandahar’s gubernatorial palace, Tooryali Wesa spends much of his day behind an imposing hand-carved wooden desk. Stately chairs and couches line the wood-paneled walls, topped with the type of high-vaulted ceiling found in a cathedral or classically designed mosque. Full news...
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August 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: “I was born into war. I sometimes curse my parents. Why did they have children in war?” asked Faiz, an earnest young man from Kabul working as an interpreter in Helmand. The 28-year-old explained that he never planned to marry or have children until he was sure that they would not have to endure the hardships of conflict. He held out little hope that that would ever happen. Full news...
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August 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan civilians may have been caught up in a NATO air strike against suspected Taliban insurgents, a foreign military spokesman said Saturday, amid claims up to eight civilians died. A local official said that an imam, his wife and their six children were killed by an air strike in Nad Ali district in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday. Full news...
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August 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The global community has failed to create a politically stable and economically viable Afghanistan despite pouring billions of dollars into the South Asian nation during a decade-long war against the Taliban, says the International Crisis Group. The Brussels-based think tank said the United States and its allies still lacked a coherent policy to strengthen Afghanistan... Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Baltimore Sun: I used to think of Vice President Joseph Biden as a nice guy. Good old Joe. Down-to-earth, nice sense of humor, great family man. But last year I read the Bob Woodward book on “Obama’s Wars.” His account of Mr. Biden’s meeting with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai in January 2009, was a shocker. Mr. Biden was rude and arrogant, humiliating the Afghan leader before his own cabinet ministers. Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southeastern Paktia province protested against Afghan and foreign security forces on Thursday, a day after a civilian was killed by a mortar shell during a firefight between militants and coalition troops. Angered by the civilian death in the Zazai Aryub district, some 300 men blocked the Zazai Aryub-Gardez highway as a mark of protest. Full news...
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August 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
National Journal: The number of IED attacks in Afghanistan has spiked to all-time high, U.S. military officials said, because of the free flow of critical bomb-making materials from neighboring Pakistan. Senior military officials said there were more than 1,600 strikes involving so-called “improvised explosive devices” in June, setting a new record for the long Afghan war, and underscoring the dangers posed by militants operating inside both of the troubled countries. Full news...
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July 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces’ onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night. Human rights groups warned that civilians are paying an increasingly high price for “reckless” coalition attacks, particularly aerial ones. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ali Ahmad, 19, and Samira, 18, were walking down a street in Herat in western Afghanistan when a police car suddenly drew up in front of them and officers got out to question them about the nature of their relationship. The young couple explained that they were engaged and due to marry soon, and had come out together – with the permission of both their families – to discuss their future together. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Roadside mines have killed 23 civilians in southern Afghanistan, with a minibus and a tractor struck separately by explosives in Helmand province, according to officials. The minibus was travelling from Nahr-e-Saraj district to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, when it hit a mine and all 19 people inside were killed, said Kamaluddin Shirzai, deputy police chief for Helmand. Full news...
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July 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Afghan education officials have promised to take action after members of the small Hindu and Sikh communities said their children were being forced to drop out of state schools because of bullying. Opinion is divided, however, on whether separate minority schools are the best way forward. “When our children go to the government schools, they face problems,” Ravinder Singh, a Sikh community leader in the capital Kabul, said. Full news...
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July 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: French soldiers serving with Nato forces in Afghanistan have shot dead three civilians, officials say. The victims - a man, a pregnant woman and a child - were travelling in a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in northern Kapisa province. The French ambassador has apologised, but President Karzai said no apology could bring back the dead and he called on Nato to protect civilians. Full news...
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July 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Across Afghanistan there are about 850 children in juvenile rehabilitation centers who lack access to adequate food, health and education, and there is inadequate coordination among aid groups trying to help, a senior official said on Tuesday. Mohammad Seddi Seddiqi, head of the Juvenile Rehabilitation Center department at the Ministry of Justice... Full news...
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July 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three civilians, including two students, were killed and six others wounded late on Monday in a clash between foreign troops and Taliban in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban attacked an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base in the Watapur district. Full news...
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July 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: This month, as the Pentagon and the CIA countenance a changing of the guard – welcoming Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus, respectively – it is worth pressing pause on national security strategy before our modus operandi becomes any more politically disconcerting, morally disheartening and financially devastating. Full news...
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