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May 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 12-year old girl and a police officer, a relative of the girl, were killed by foreign troops during a raid on a house in eastern Nangarhar province, residents said on Thursday. The troops blew up the house’s gate and entered at 1am last night in Myagan Banda village of Surkh Rod district, Naik Mohammad, father of the slain girl, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Armed men raped a 12-year old girl in a village in Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Her family members say six of these men were wearing police uniforms. The local Women’s Affairs office in Takhar confirmed the incident and the police of the province say they are searching for the criminals. Full news...
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May 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The charity has warned that unless the international community acts immediately the country will not be secure enough to hand over to Afghan forces in 2014. The report, titled No Time to Lose, claims Nato is not doing enough to prevent abuses by Afghan police and “time is running out” for change. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Headless bodies of four students were on Monday found in a village in southeastern Khost province, a public representative said. The decapitated young boys belonged to two families living in Zoor village of Musakhel district. Their bodies were found Monday morning near the village, Shafiq Mujahid, a provincial council member, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Intense fighting has taken place in Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs. The Taliban said it was behind the triple assault on the provincial governor’s office, the Afghan spy agency and a police station. At least two people were killed and 23 injured in the fighting, which spread panic on the streets. Full news...
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May 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says a man shot during a battle with Australian Special Forces soldiers was a civilian, not an insurgent. An infant also died from gunshot wounds he received in the firefight. The relatives of the victims say that Australian troops took innocent lives, but the Defence Force says the case is still being investigated. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five children, playing cricket, were injured when a mortar shell landed near them in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, residents said. The incident took place in the Manogi district in the evening, resident Yar Pacha told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said it was not known from which where direction and who fired the shell. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The dead body of a 40-year-old pregnant woman was found in northern Samangan province on Sunday morning, a police official said. The corpse was recovered in the Shahid Andkhoi Aibak neighbourhood, the acting crime branch, Capt. Asadullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Asadullah said the woman’s body had been transferred to the Aibak Civil Hospital. Her address is yet to be ascertained. Full news...
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April 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Weasel Zippers: Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25. Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents... Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Naqibullah was about 14 years old when U.S. troops detained him in December 2002 at a suspected militant’s compound in eastern Afghanistan. The weapon he held in his hands hadn’t been fired, the troops concluded, and he appeared to have been left behind with a group of cooks and errand boys when a local warlord, tipped to the raid, had fled. Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said. “I saw a woman who was publically humiliated and tortured because she had allegedly lost her virginity before her wedding night,” said Suraya Subhrang, a women’s rights commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns, including Berlin, Dortmund, Bremen Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Duesseldorf and Stuttgart. German peace and church groups as well as labor unions have planned numerous anti-war campaigns over the Easter holidays in major German cities and towns... Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Newsweek: The young Afghan hates his new school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. “My classmates only talk about girls and movies,” he complains. A tall, thin 17-year-old with the straggly beginnings of a beard, he yearns for the high school he used to attend, a few miles away in the Afghan refugee camp known as Shamshatoo. Full news...
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April 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Catholic San Francisco: Recent reports have raised concern about the impact of the war in Afghanistan on civilians in Afghanistan and in Pakistani border areas that have been the focus of drone strikes targeting Taliban leaders. In Afghanistan, the first two months of 2011 saw a dramatic deterioration in the security situation for ordinary Afghans, the International Committee for the Red Cross said March 15. Full news...
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April 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than a dozen people, including six civilians, have been killed in an ongoing firefight between insurgents and NATO-led soldiers in the Alasai district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Saturday. “With the clash still in progress, seven insurgents and six ordinary people have so far been killed, and there are fears of more casualties,” Alasai district chief, Mullah Mohammad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three road workers were killed during an airstrike by foreign troops in the southeastern province of Khost, a private construction company official said on Friday. A fourth worker was wounded during the overnight air raid by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Sperai district, Faqir Mohammad Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: TWO Afghan women were killed in an operation in eastern Afghanistan that also left 17 insurgents dead, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said today. Local officials had previously said that two women and a child died in the fighting late Tuesday in the Dangam district of Kunar province. “The security forces returned fire, killing the insurgent and what turned out to be two women he was hiding behind,” an ISAF statement said. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Government officials in northern Afghanistan are building up their own ethnic-based militia groups to expand their influence and keep the Taliban at bay. But the spread of mostly Tajik and Uzbek militias is aggravating tensions with local Pashtuns—the country’s largest ethnic group but a minority in the north—some of whom say they are being driven to turn to the Taliban... Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Media Monitors Network: “The purpose for which Afghanistan was invaded — to secure safe passage for a gas and oil pipeline from Central Asia and lay hands on the rich mineral deposits of Afghanistan — has not been achieved so far. Yet there is growing anxiety among ordinary Americans over the extended military mission that has nearly bankrupted America. Full news...
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April 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: On this Tax Day, many Americans are likely taking a moment to consider the costs associated with funding the public services that, among other things, keep our air and water clean, create educational opportunities for our children, and provide financial security to our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Although no one likes to pay taxes, most Americans understand that our country is stronger because we collectively fund our national priorities and promote the common good. Full news...
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April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: With violence against them increasing, 75 women committed self-immolation last year, Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said on Sunday. A total of 2,765 cases of violence against women and girls were reported to the rights watchdog from different parts of the country, AIHRC official Latifa Sultani told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A small girl, present in the administration of the Women’s Affairs of Sar-e-Pul, claimed she was raped by two of her uncles, but health officials say it has not been confirmed yet and further medical examinations are needed to prove the claim. 10-year old Nazanin, claimed that one year back her two step uncles raped her, and her paternal grandparents tortured, beat and poured hot oil on her. Full news...
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April 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The number of drug addicts in the western Herat city has risen to over 70,000, provincial officials say. Herat addicts mainly include jobless youths most of whom have returned from Iran. They were addicted to drugs while living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Governor of Herat said. Full news...
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April 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Fifty-eight incidents of violence against journalists have been registered in Afghanistan over the past one year, the Media Watch said on Monday. “Government officials are involved in 26 incidents of violence on journalists, unknown men in 18, NATO-led ISAF soldiers in 9, media people in three and Taliban fighters in two,” Siddqullah Tawhidi, told a press conference in Kabul. Full news...
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April 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Guardian News & Media: When plans to regulate Afghanistan’s booming wedding industry were announced earlier in the year, the government said it merely wanted to curb the country’s mania for lavish weddings that drag people into debt. But according to drafts of the law it is also aiming to introduce various public morality provisions in yet another sign of the casual erosion of the small freedoms women have won since 2001. And in an echo of the Taliban regime, which used to police weddings ... Full news...
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April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press. Full news...
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April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Iran’s border police killed eight Afghans trying to cross the border into the neighbouring country near the Islam Qala dry port in western Herat province, an official said on Thursday. The Afghans were killed by Iranian border police guards when they attempted to enter Iran last Friday night, a police official, who did not want to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanistan Today (Translated by RAWA): General Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the police chief of Jowzjan, gave news suicide committed by two women, saying, “The first woman named Gul Bibi, wife of Abdul Ghafar of the Qorm Qila village of Mardian district, hung herself with a rope at seven in the morning at her home.” The second incident, he said, took place in the city of Jowzjan in the Chetgiri area... Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: A night raid by NATO-led forces killed six civilians in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul, local officials said Tuesday, but a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said the dead were Taliban insurgents armed with AK-47 assault rifles. The disagreement adds to the debate surrounding night raids, which have become a centerpiece of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan... Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman was killed and another woman and a child were wounded when they were hit by a vehicle of foreign troops in Kabul on Wednesday, police said. The accident happened when a military vehicle belonging to NATO-led soldiers collided with a civilian car on the Darul Aman road in the limits of sixth police district, crime branch police chief, Col. Mohammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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