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March 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain home in the middle of the night to escape relentless airstrikes from U.S. drones targeting militants in this remote corner of Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Religious and government leaders in eastern Ghazni province cancelled a music concert yesterday saying it was “haram” under Islam, a sign of the growing influence of Taliban extremists, Ghazni lawmakers said Wednesday. Two Afghan singers, Mohammad Anwar Azad and Abass Neshat, were to perform at the concert in Ghazni’s Jaghori district to celebrate the Persian new year... Full news...
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March 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: The 15-year-old refused to give his name, his eyes cast down as he sat in an empty room in the children’s correction centre in Kabul. Slowly, he began to open up and tell his story. An orphan, he left his home province of Sar-e Pol a year ago and came to the Afghan city to study at an Islamic school. One day while out in the city, he saw a man struggling to carry two bags of groceries. Full news...
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March 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sydney Morning Herald: In the twilight that passes for reality in Afghanistan, the story of Hakim Shujoyi does not add up neatly – but there’s enough in its different parts to suggest that a monster is stalking the eastern flank of Oruzgan province. Personal detail is opaque, but not the contradictions from which Shujoyi draws inordinate power in Khas Oruzgan, a wild and mountainous swath of the province... Full news...
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March 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Despite national and international efforts to rein in child abuse, the violence has only increased, says new research. The AIHRC (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission) says out of 140 cases of sexual attacks registered over the last two years, 80 were cases of abuse of children. They can be seen begging on street corners, or at work from morning to night. Full news...
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March 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Post-Journal: Americans have forgotten about the Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, and the Afghan war, the longest in American history, but the U.S. government is still throwing its weight around in both countries. The Iraq war, the pretext for which was nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, officially ended in 2011 with the withdrawal of virtually all of America’s combat troops. Full news...
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March 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Four children were killed and two others wounded by a bomb they were playing with in the Mianishin district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, officials said. The roadside bomb exploded in the Zunto area, where the children found it, the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Javed Faisal, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Mountainous Nuristan is one of the most volatile and inaccessible provinces in Afghanistan, writes the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary. It is also one of its most insecure - could other parts of the country go the same way? Nuristan is geographically cut off from the rest of Afghanistan and has next to no infrastructure, few medical facilities and endemic corruption. Full news...
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March 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The year has started badly for press freedom. The independent media watchdog, NAI, has warned attacks on journalists have risen in 2013. As many as 31 cases were reported since the beginning of the year compared to only 12 cases in all of 2012. The attackers in the majority of cases were “governmental authorities”, Abdul Mujib Khelwatgar, the executive director of NAI, told the press in Herat. Full news...
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March 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Twenty-three women and five men have lost their lives to domestic violence in western Farah province over the past year, an official said on Sunday. Included in the 154 cases of violence are the killings of 23 women, 64 divorce incidents and three instances of self-immolation, the women’s affairs director said. Full news...
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March 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: In early February, “Picture This” ran a photo gallery titled “Afghanistan As It Once Was.” The photographs were taken in Kabul in the late 1960s by William Podlich, a professor at Arizona State University. Podlich, a camera buff, spent two years in Afghanistan -- teaching and taking pictures. His daughter, Peg Podlich, was kind enough to share some of her father’s photos with RFE/RL. Full news...
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March 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Nahoor in Ghazni province is picture postcard pretty. With plentiful water from streams and rain, it is green. There are orchards of apricots, plums, prunes and other fruit. Three decades ago it was the site of a bloodbath. Seventy-year-old Abdul Husain is a witness. From Deh Afghan, a village in Nahoor district, he says the scars left by war have not healed. Full news...
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March 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Sadaf Ahmadi*, 18, from the northern Afghan province of Badakshan, has arrived battered and bruised at a women’s refuge centre in Faizabad. It is her fifth such visit. Every time it is the same. Staff at the centre, run by Women for Women, an Afghan NGO, try to offer support, but every previous time local community leaders or the government courts send her back to her husband and the beatings continue. Full news...
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March 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops opened fire at a private truck, killing its two occupants in the Deh Sabz district of central Kabul province, an official said on Monday. The incident occurred at 10:30am when the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) personnel fired shots at the vehicle of a private firm responsible for providing maintenance support to police, the Ministry of Interior spokesman, Gulam Siaddique Siddiqui, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Time and again, throughout America’s history, individuals with a passion for truth and a commitment to justice have opted to defy the unjust laws and practices of the American government in order to speak up against slavery, segregation, discrimination, and war. Even when their personal safety and freedom were on the line, these individuals spoke up... Full news...
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March 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women has dramatically increased in eastern provinces, where 220 cases were registered since the start of this year, compared to 40 incidents during the same period in 2012, officials said on Sunday. Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)’s women wing head for eastern provinces, Sabrina, told a gathering marking the international women’s day, there were a total of 170 incidents... Full news...
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March 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Eight children and one policeman were killed on Saturday when a suicide attacker blew up his explosives on a road beside a joint patrol of Afghan police and international forces in this capital city of southeastern Khost province, an official said. The strike around 10:30am targeted the joint Afghan-US patrol in the Kandi area on Khost City’s outskirts, but eight passing civilians were killed... Full news...
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March 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: When I got married at the age of 14, I didn’t know that my husband used drugs. When I asked him why he was using heroin, he told me lies – he told me that he just smoked cigarettes, not that he was addicted to drugs. When he came home after he used drugs, he would usually beat me. Sometimes he would disappear for months at a time. Full news...
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March 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan teenager Shakila was shot in the back 13 months ago in the house where she worked as a maid for a wealthy local leader in one of the most progressive provinces of Afghanistan. Her murderer has never been arrested, and her family’s search for justice has laid bare the complex web of grinding poverty, attitudes towards women and a culture of immunity that plagues much of the country’s legal system. Full news...
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March 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two radio stations have been closed and at least a dozen journalists arrested or attacked by police in various parts of Afghanistan since the start of the current year, an international group said on Wednesday. Voicing its concern about an increase in harassment and violence against journalists and sanctions against news media, Reporters Without Borders said... Full news...
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March 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: On March 1, a U.S./NATO helicopter gunship killed two Afghan brothers, seven and eight years of age, as they tended cattle in Uruzgan province. According to reports from residents, the boys were listening to a radio, which the helicopter crew interpreted as “radio signals” from Afghan resistance fighters. The latest killing comes amidst a series of atrocities against civilians that has further enflamed opposition to the ongoing occupation. Full news...
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March 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: Two more children dead in Afghanistan, thanks to an American airstrike. The war is winding down, but try telling that to the families of the children blown to pieces by mistake. Unless you’ve been reading news accounts closely, you probably missed the story: Two boys out collecting firewood with their donkeys were killed by weapons fired from a NATO helicopter, Afghan and American military officials announced Saturday. Full news...
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March 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Channel 4 News: It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must. If she moves suddenly, she will be hit, for she sits in the middle of the road and covered head to foot in the blue burkha. Her vision is restricted ahead and her peripheral vision is non-existent. Full news...
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March 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan’s south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops. The two boys were shot dead when they were mistaken for insurgents during an operation in the northwest of Uruzgan on February 28, ISAF commander, U.S. General Joseph Dunford, said in a statement. Full news...
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March 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Digital Journal: Even though the Taliban government in Afghanistan fell more than ten years ago, the justice system is still discriminatory in its treatment of women as is the legal system. Al Jazeera reporter, Jennifer Glasse reports from Herat at a women’s jail. Many Afghan women are in jail for fleeing domestic abuse or violence. Full news...
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February 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sunday Times: Handing over security operations in Afghanistan to the Afghans is “proceeding very well”, Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, said on a recent visit to Helmand. “The Afghans are developing capabilities faster than we expected.” He was echoing the unbridled optimism of many British and American officials. Having just returned from five weeks in Sangin — the most violent district in Afghanistan’s most violent province — I cannot see any reason for such optimism. Full news...
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February 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In 2010, as WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents relating to the conduct of the US government, government defenders dismissively claimed that they revealed nothing new. Among the many documents disproving that claim were ones relating to a US policy in Iraq set forth in “Frago 242”, which ordered coalition troops not to stop or even investigate torture and other war crimes by the Iraqi forces they were training, but simply to “note” them. Full news...
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February 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: In April 1987, Afghanistan ratified the UN Convention against Torture. But it did not stop either the government or its opponents from using the most cruel and inhuman methods to punish and extract information from political rivals. The crimes were never probed; the victims were never compensated. Full news...
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February 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pak Tribune: Combined force allegedly killed four civilians in Kunduz district, capital of northern Kunduz province on Thursday, local resident said. Afghan and foreign forces raided the house of a local resident, Saifur Rahman, at approximately 1:30 a.m. (local time), killing him, his two sons, Dilarwa and 18-year-old Hayatullah... Full news...
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February 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
A man has murdered his wife with a razor blade after prolonged domestic quarrels arising from financial difficulties, Kabul Police officials said Thursday. “This heart-wrenching and tragic incident took place in Zone 7 of Kabul city. The people of the area informed us, and the police reached the area within a short time and arrested the man before he managed to escape,”... Full news...
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