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September 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Business Standard: The international media is glossing over a potentially far-reaching development in Afghanistan. There have been a handful of sketchy reports about “armed, popular local uprisings” that have “expelled the Taliban” from several districts in eastern Afghanistan, but there has been little follow-up investigation or writing about these militias. Full news...
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August 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
National Times: Senior Defence Department officials feared the WikiLeaks expos? of secret US military reports would undermine public support for the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan, according to newly released briefing papers. Reports about a corrupt Afghan warlord who works closely with Australian special forces were considered particularly sensitive. Full news...
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July 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian & BBC Radio (Translated by RAWA): A year after the rape and murder of a young girl in northern Afghanistan, her family claims the perpetrators of these crimes threaten them and have burnt down their home. The parents of the girl have fled from their home in Rostaq district of Takhar province, along with seven of their children and come to Kabul to follow the case of their daughter. Full news...
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July 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Afghanistan’s former warlords and militia leaders have slammed the leaked findings of an unpublished report that implicates hundreds of them in atrocities committed during the country’s devastating civil war in the 1990s. Titled “Conflict Mapping In Afghanistan Since 1978,” the damning report accuses up to 500 members and leaders of rival ethnic and political groups... Full news...
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July 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The atrocities of the Afghan civil war in the 1990s are still recounted in whispers here — tales of horror born out of a scorched-earth ethnic and factional conflict in which civilians and captured combatants were frequently slaughtered en masse. Stark evidence of such killings are held in the mass graves that still litter the Afghan countryside. One such site is outside Mazar-i-Sharif, in the north. Full news...
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July 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Herald: When at the Bonn conference in 2001 Hamid Karzai was appointed Afghanistan’s interim president by his international supporters, he came to occupy this position without any local backers. He had no traditional constituency and no political party, but has been able to exert his power for the past 10 years through his strong associations with the international community... Full news...
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July 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A member of the Bamyan Provincial Council, Wahidi Beheshti, is accused of killing a young girl named Shakila on January 22 this year in his own house. She had been raped by Beheshti and then killed with a gun of his bodyguard. Beheshti’s family claimed Shakila had committed suicide; however forensics proved that she had been killed. Full news...
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June 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Afghanistan has suspended a political party for the first time since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, a ban diplomats and activists say is a worrying sign freedoms in the country could suffer as western troops leave, taking funds and attention with them. The Solidarity Party angered powerful politicians with a demonstration in late April accusing a swathe of Afghan leaders, former leaders and commanders of committing war crimes... Full news...
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June 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: It was in the early hours of the morning when a group of armed men stormed through a mud-walled compound and whisked young Lal Bibi away. After being forced to marry one of her captors the next day in an illegal ceremony, Bibi, who says she’s 13, spent the ensuing five days in a dark room being tortured, beaten, and repeatedly raped. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A teenage girl in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday claimed a local policeman raped her and held her captive for several days. A group of policemen, led by Commander Mohammad Ishaaq Nizami, forcibly entered her house and took her away last week, the 18-year-old alleged. Full news...
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May 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Relatives of a teenage girl, who was found dead in her brother-in-law’s house last year, on Monday accused a provincial council member of shooting her during a court hearing in central Bamyan province. The 16-year-old victim, identified as Shakila, was found shot dead in the Zargaran village on the outskirts of Bamyan City, the provincial capital. Full news...
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May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of residents including tribal elders, influential and Ulama, urge the government to stop militiamen from harassing people in northern Kunduz province. The militia is a voluntary armed tribal force created by locals to ensure security for their communities. However, they are presently deployed as an armed force but with no official rank in the government. They are equipped and supported by the government and US forces to fight the rebels. Full news...
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March 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Additional local militia personnel would be recruited and deployed to western Ghor province to strengthen security there, officials say. But locals and provincial council members regard local militias a source of insecurity. Governor Abdullah Hiwad recently told media that President Hamid Karzai had agreed to raising and deploying an additional 1000-member militia to the province. Full news...
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March 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press Com. of CISDA: It is announced that on March 17, in Via San Gallicano, Rome the infamous Afghan warlord and criminal Mohammed Mohaqiq, leader of the fundamentalist Hezb-e-Wahdat Party will visit. On 16 March this brutal criminal is the keynote speaker at a conference held in Campidoglio, in presence of the fascist Mayor of Rome: Alemanno... Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A prominent Afghan women’s rights activist says gunmen have attacked her office in a western province in an apparent assassination attempt. Malalai Joya is a former Afghan lawmaker and vocal critic of corruption and criminality in the Afghan government, as well as the Taliban. She says the overnight attack on her office in Farah province was the sixth attempt on her life. Full news...
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February 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Nasreen, a young girl was murdered by local strongmen on February 25, 2012 in Anchagal village, Naray district in Kunar province. The killing was over family disputes that were not made clear. Three years ago the same people shot her with an AK-47 which severely injured her but her brother, Nematullah, saved her by taking her to a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Full news...
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November 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: In Afghanistan, a media boom followed the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, but it hasn’t been without problems. Watchdog groups report hundreds of cases of violence and intimidation against journalists, including murder. Afghan reporters have learned which topics are off limits, and they take great care to avoid offending the country’s most powerful personalities. Full news...
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November 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: In an effort to counter a growing insurgency in northern Afghanistan, two U.S.-backed programs in Kunduz have recruited local militias to oppose Taliban militants in the area. But while the militias are better at fighting the Taliban on the battlefield, their methods turn local populations against them. Full news...
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November 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The gifts referred to in the title of “Blood and Gifts,” a superb new play by J. T. Rogers about the long history behind the American involvement in Afghanistan, are on ominous view throughout the play. Big boxes are carried onstage and cracked open to reveal piles of artillery. Shiny new rifles are waved in the air like harmless toys. Suitcases full of dollars are handed over with a cool smile. Full news...
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November 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: With his broad cheekbones, hair swept back under a sequined cap, and the gentle manner of a well-to-do Pashtun, Atal Afghanzai might easily pass for a doctor or an engineer. Instead, his career path led into a cloak-and-dagger world of covert armies and foreign agents, until a rare lethal run-in with an Afghan police chief landed him on death row in Kabul’s most notorious prison. Full news...
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October 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Eurasianet.org: After a decade of involvement in Afghanistan, it appears the United States hasn't learned a critical lesson. Warlordism has been a key component in driving the country’s vicious cycle of violence. Yet as the drawdown of US and NATO troops proceeds, American policymakers find themselves reliant on warlord-led militias to fill security gaps. Full news...
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October 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Judges in Afghanistan’s southeast Nangarhar province have started sentencing anyone caught drinking alcohol to 80 lashes. When the Taleban movement was in power in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, penalties derived from Islamic law were routinely imposed, such as stoning for adultery and amputation for theft. The post-2001 Afghan judiciary abandoned such methods. Full news...
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October 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A mass grave that might be decades old, containing dozens of skulls, was found in north Afghanistan on Thursday, Afghan officials said. Villagers discovered the grave in the Rustaq district in the province of Takhar, said Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, a spokesman for the Takhar governor. Full news...
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October 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: One afternoon this summer, in a park beside the Ajmil River, I sat with seven residents of Shahabuddin, a collection of villages in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan Province. It was the first week of Ramadan, and the park was almost empty, but still the men — some middle-aged, others stooped and gray-bearded — whispered conspiratorially and became silent whenever anybody walked close. Full news...
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October 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Lawmakers from eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday accused some of their colleagues and former jihadi leaders of having links with illegal armed groups blamed for insecurity and corruption. Senate Chairman Fazl Hadi Muslimyar told the upper house people of the eastern province had told him that a number of illegal armed had emerged in Nangarhar. Full news...
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October 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Leadership: This October marks the 10th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan under the pretext of self-defense. The roots of events – including the 9/11-attacks in the US – that led to the need to invade Afghanistan date back to actions during the days of the Cold War which set a train of events in motion that might just in future still reverberate through a potential deadly blowback from the present-day conflict in Libya. Full news...
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October 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The World: There was no fanfare at the White House Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Instead, President Obama issued a written statement. One line in that statement said that in Afghanistan the United States has shown itself to be a “partner with those who seek justice, dignity and opportunity.” And one focus of that partnership is Afghanistan’s shattered justice system. Full news...
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October 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: As many as 315 illegal armed groups are still active in some northern provinces, an official said on Wednesday. A senior official with the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme, Gen. Abdul Manan, who delivered 22 weapons to the programme officials, said nearly 185 such groups out of 500 have been disarmed in northern provinces. Full news...
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October 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: On his knees, Nawroz prays. He is a condemned man about to die in a brutal way. His crime: The killing of his lover’s husband. The judge: A local warlord in Kand, Afghanistan. The executioner: The victim’s father. A mobile phone video captured the grisly scene. Many have gathered to watch this act, sitting on dusty earth, in dappled shade. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of western Ghor province approach local militant commanders for dispute resolution as a result of closure of five district courts. Because of insecurity, courts in Charsadda, Dulina, Pasaband, Saghar and Shahrak districts have been shifted to the provincial capital. Resident Mohammadullah said the Shahrak district court was transferred to Chaghcharan due to deteriorating security, forcing people to take their cases to local commanders. Full news...
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