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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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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Almost an average of 52 civilians lost their lives per month last year due to landmine explosions in Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday. The number of civilian casualties caused by landmines decreased last year, compared to the previous year, Haider Raza, the head of Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA), told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of a district in central Kabul province on Monday accused foreign troops of killing a shopkeeper and taking away his son during an overnight raid. The incident happened Sunday night in Chaar Asyab district of Kabul when NATO-led troops attacked the house of Yasin, a relative, Ghulam Rassoul, said. Full news...
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March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A husband fatally stabbed his pregnant wife on Thursday due to a family dispute in the central province of Parwan, an official said. Hamidullah, 34, killed his 22-year-old pregnant wife on Thursday morning in Deh Maskin area of Bagram district, deputy police chief, Col. Abdul Razaq Quraishi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Self-immolations have increased over the past year in western Afghanistan, but fewer people have died from their injuries, doctors say. The main causes of self-immolation are violence in families, poverty, drug addiction and forced and early marriages. A number of women who attempted to kill themselves say they did so because they were unhappy with their lives and families. Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Ignoring women rights and violence against women in Afghanistan’s western Herat and neighboring provinces has prompted 88 women and girls to commit self-immolation in an attempt to get rid of domestic violence over the past one year. In the war-torn Afghanistan where people, mostly in rural areas practice upon tradition the women and girls are facing a variety of violence... Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of children born in Afghanistan with misshapen limbs and other deformities is increasing, doctors say, with several blaming intermarriage, drug use and chemicals contained in coalition weapons. There are no exact statistics of the number of children born with disabilities, but anecdotal evidence from hospitals in Kabul and the provinces suggests it is increasing. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rolling Stone: Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The international coalition arrested nine members of a family, including an imam, and took them to their base in central Logar province, an official said on Monday. “The people taken from Wazir Qala were ordinary people, but the foreigners said they recovered a Kalashnikov from the house, and that the people had links with the Taliban,” he said. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: Officials in eastern Afghanistan say three suicide car bombers have attack a construction company, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others. Authorities said the attack happened late Sunday in the Barmal district of Paktika province, when the bombers killed a security guard and then detonated a truck full of explosives. Full news...
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March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
War Is A Crime.org: In two jam-packed appearances this weekend, Afghan feminist leader Malalai Joya reached at least 1500 people with her denunciations of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. She spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky to 1200 people at Harvard’s Memorial Church Friday night and to 300 in Jamaica Plain this afternoon. Full news...
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