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July 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police have arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly molesting his three and a half years old niece in northern Badakhshan province, while another man stabbed his wife to death in northeastern Takhar, officials said on Tuesday. The alleged incest took place in Tashkan district, a remote border town, on Monday, Badakhshan police chief Brig. Gen. Imamuddin Mutmaein confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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July 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A girls’ high school has been set afire in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Saturday. Militant torched the school in the Aalchi area on the outskirts of Kunduz City late on Friday night, the deputy police chief said. Full news...
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July 19, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Officials say a wave of bombings in southern Afghanistan has killed 15 people, including six members of the country’s security services. Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, says there were four bombings. All of them took place late on Friday in different locations in Helmand. Full news...
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July 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: The U.S.-led coalition is failing to clear unexploded munitions from the Afghan bases it’s demolishing as it withdraws its combat forces, leaving a deadly legacy that has killed and maimed a growing number of civilians, United Nations demining officials charge. Full news...
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July 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
HRW: Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, should reject a proposed criminal law revision that would effectively deny women legal protection from domestic violence, Human Rights Watch said today. A new draft of the criminal procedure code, seen by Human Rights Watch, is currently being considered by Afghanistan’s parliament. Full news...
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July 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Toronto Star: U.S. Marine Maj. Bill Steuber, like most people in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, knew that local Afghan police were keeping young boys as sex slaves. The practice, known as bacha bazi, or “boy play,” was an open secret in Sangin, a town of 14,000 in Helmand. Full news...
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July 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Scores of illegal armed groups terrorise locals. On June 26, people fled Nahrin district in Baghlan province after armed militia beat up villagers to force them to pay oshr (a tenth of agricultural produce). A local, quoted by Radio Azadi, said: “We request the government to expel these groups from our area”. Full news...
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July 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A court in Kabul ordered the early release of three people convicted over the torture of a child bride, an official confirmed Saturday, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for women’s rights. Sahar Gul, who was 15 at the time her ordeal, was burned, beaten and had her fingernails pulled out by her husband and in-laws after she refused to become a prostitute in a case that shocked the world. Full news...
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July 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: “We aren’t treated as human beings,” Sikh businessman Amrit Singh said as he sat in his small grocery shop in the Kabul neighbourhood of Shor Bazaar. “When we are alive, we are disrespected, insulted and beaten…. And when we take our dead to the crematorium, which is our personal property, they won’t let us burn the bodies, saying it stinks.” “Do we have any rights in this country or not?” the 45-year-old asked. Full news...
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July 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghanistan National Journalists’ Union (ANJU) on Wednesday strongly condemned the beating of a reporter with a private television channel. Hussain Nazari, a reporter of TV3, was roughed up in the Chaman-i-Hazoori area, where he had gone to cover a National Olympic Committee (NOC) event. Full news...
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July 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan intelligence on Monday announced the arrest of an Afghan who translated for the U.S. Special Forces and was linked to the mysterious deaths of at least nine civilians in an affair that has further strained relations between the U.S. and President Hamid Karzai. The Afghan National Directorate for Security said Zakaria Kandahari was picked up “recently” in the southern city of Kandahar for “various crimes.” Full news...
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July 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: People of the Dasht-i-Archi district of northern Kunduz province on Tuesday staged a protest against an Afghan Local Police (ALP) member who killed two farmers after they refused to give him Ushr. The incident took place on Monday evening when ALP official Iftikhar asked the growers for alms, but they declined giving him wheat. The policeman shot dead the famers and injured a 12 years old boy in Bajauri village. Full news...
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July 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police recovered a girl’s body with signs of being hanged in the Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Monday. The 17 years old girl’s corpse was found in Sheikh Jalal area by residents in the afternoon, Abdul Fatah Hatef, the district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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July 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three militants were killed and nearly 300 families displaced as a result of an operation by security personnel in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. The ongoing offensive -- codenamed Operation Eagle -- was launched three days ago by Afghan National Army and police personnel in Zikarkhel and Himmatkhel areas of Baghlan-i-Markazi district. Full news...
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July 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: At least 16 Afghans were killed and 17 others sustained injuries as two suicide attacks rocked the southern provinces of Kandahar and Uruzgan on Friday, officials asserted. In the latest deadly suicide bombing which hit Uruzgan’s provincial capital Trinkot 370 km south of Kabul, 12 people mostly policemen were killed and five others sustained injuries, spokesman for provincial administration, Abdullah Humat said. Full news...
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July 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: When Afghan President Hamid Karzai finally appointed new members to the country’s top human rights watchdog last month, it was meant to end a long period of limbo for a body that had lost five of its members. Instead, the president’s appointments have sparked an uproar in the rights community, both in Afghanistan and abroad. Full news...
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July 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A study conducted by a US military adviser has found that drone strikes in Afghanistan during a year of the protracted conflict caused 10 times more civilian casualties than strikes by manned fighter aircraft. The new study, referred to in an official US military journal, contradicts claims by US officials that the robotic planes are more precise than their manned counterparts. Full news...
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July 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Dozens of people on Monday staged a protest against Kabul police for killing seven people in the Deh Sabz district of the capital. Seven civilians were killed and several others wounded last week during a clash between police and supporters of Haji Janat Gul, a brother of MP Allah Gul Mujahid. Full news...
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July 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: It is close to midday and a group of patients wait outside the Mirwais regional hospital in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar city. “There are no health clinics in our district so I have to come this long way for treatment. I have not met the doctor yet and have been waiting to see him for a long time,” one man, who had been waiting since sunrise and had driven four hours from neighbouring Helmand Province, told IRIN. Full news...
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June 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: At least three suicide bombers launched a sophisticated attack on the heart of the Afghan government early Tuesday morning, using at least two land cruisers similar to those used by international soldiers here, fake badges and vehicle passes, which allowed at least one to get inside the heavily guarded area, according to Kabul’s deputy police chief. Full news...
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June 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Seven civilians were killed and three others wounded by unidentified gunmen in the Deh Sabz district of Kabul on Monday, an official said. The victims were workers and owners of brick-kilns, a member of the Wolesi Jirga from Kabul, Haji Allah Gul Mujahid, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: One of the victims of last month’s attack on the International Organization for Migration (IOM) compound in the Afghan capital is still to be identified - a six year old boy. The child’s body, found near the attack site, has not been claimed and the police have not been able to find the boy’s parents. Full news...
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June 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A NATO airstrike killed three teenage boys in the Baraki Barak district of central Logar province, an official said on Tuesday. The strike took place on Sunday evening in the Tokal village, the district chief, Mohammad Rahim Amin, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The dead included two 18 years old and one 12-year-old boys, he said, adding an investigation had been launched into the attack. Full news...
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June 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Outsiders may have trouble distinguishing between the turbans worn by Afghan Sikhs, with their tighter folds, varied colors and tucked-in edges, and those worn by Afghan Muslims, usually black or white with the end hanging down the wearer’s back. The subtle differences, however, and what they represent, have fueled widespread discrimination against Afghan Sikhs, members of the community say... Full news...
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June 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pakistan Today: Six civilians were killed and four others sustained injuries when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle in Afghanistan’s central province of Uruzgan on Sunday. The early morning blast took place in the Chura district, a statement from the governor’s house media centre said. Full news...
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June 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghanistan remains at the rock bottom -- in 162nd position -- on the 2013 Global Peace Index (GPI), faring poorly in terms of political stability and respect for human rights. Launching the index at the GPI headquarters in New York on Thursday, experts said the world had become less peaceful in the past year, calling Afghanistan the biggest faller. Full news...
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June 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Bombs have become so common in Afghanistan that the attacks themselves, still less the human costs months and years later, are rarely reported. When a bomb went off at a clinic in Logar, a province south of Kabul, in July 2011, 30 people were killed instantly and at least ten died afterwards as a result of the injuries they sustained. Full news...
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June 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF expressed concerns regarding children’s casualties in Afghanistan war and violence and urged all parties involved in the Afghan war to take necessary precuations in a bid to prevent civilian and children casualties. Full news...
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June 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Protestors in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Tuesday accused a doctor of raping a midwife, demanding his trial, officials said. Hundreds of people took to the streets in the provincial capital, blaming the doctor for assaulting the midwife at his private clinic, said Sharifuddin, one of the protestors. Full news...
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June 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: The United Nations said civilian casualties from the conflict in Afghanistan have increased dramatically this year. News of the figures came as 14 people were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber Tuesday near Afghanistan’s Supreme Court. The increasing number of civilians killed could impact Afghanistan national elections next year and its transition to security independence as international combat forces leave next year. Full news...
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