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  • April 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Beyond the Headlines: The Real Afghanistan
    WordPress.com: In essence to understand the situation of Afghanistan which has been ravished by the Mujahedeen, warlordism and vast corruption. It is a necessity in order to hear from the people of Afghanistan who have been affected by this. That is, the unspoken voices that have suffered from the United States/NATO occupation, who have felt themselves in a place that no human being should be in of dire distress.      Full news...

  • April 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Warlords, Not Taliban, Making Life Hard For Voters In Quiet Afghan Northeast
    RFE/RL: Compared with the rest of the country, which is plagued by frequent militant attacks and bombings, Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa and Parwan provinces enjoy relative peace and stability. Taliban militants don’t enjoy a strong presence there. Despite this, some villagers in the two neighboring provinces say they won’t be casting their ballots in the April 5 elections because they fear reprisals from local warlords.      Full news...

  • April 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Faryab women protest against warlord
    PAN: A large number of weeping women on Wednesday staged a protest rally in northern Faryab province, accusing a local commander of sexually abusing and murdering young girls and children during a bloody clash with civilians. Nearly 100 women, accompanied by children, from Pashtun Kot district arrived in Maimana, the provincial capital, and assembled in front of the governor’s house.      Full news...

  • March 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Warlords and Corruption are on the Rise as Afghanistan Prepares to Vote
    The Nation: Having a presidential election in Afghanistan is sort of like trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again—that is, if every piece of the eggshell were trying to kill all the other pieces. Thirteen years after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan is no closer to being a unified country than it was back then, after a decade of war during the Soviet period, the civil war that followed and finally the conquest by the Taliban.      Full news...

  • February 18, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Jihadists create “no-go zones” in northern Afghanistan
    Threat Matrix: For years, The Long War Journal has observed that while media coverage has tended to focus on the Taliban and allied jihadists' efforts in the Afghan south and west, the groups have devoted significant resources in the north. And not just in the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. The Taliban and groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Turkistan Islamic Party have been active in the northern and northwestern provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, Baghlan, Kunduz, Samagan, Balkh, Sar-i-Pul, Jawzjan, Faryab, and Badghis.      Full news...

  • February 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Former warlord campaigns to succeed Karzai
    The Associated Press: He has been called a mentor to accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the man who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in the 1990s. He was accused of war crimes and atrocities, and even has a terror group named after him in the Philippines. But these days, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf has refashioned himself as an influential lawmaker, elder statesman and religious scholar — and possibly the next president of Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • January 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Public rep accused of aiding gunmen
    PAN: Residents of the Burka district of northern Baghlan province on Monday held a protest against gunmen involved in killing civilians and accused a provincial council member of backing outlaws. Tens of people gathered in front of the police headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, blasting government for failing to take action against the gunmen who killed three teenage boys in Burka in one month.      Full news...

  • December 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Dostum’s guards allegedly assault villagers
    PAN: Gunmen loyal to Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum have allegedly attacked and beaten some residents of a village on the outskirts of Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province. Nearly 100 people, protesting in front of the governor’s house, accused armed supporters of the Junbish-i-Milli Afghanistan leader of severely beating residents of Hassan Tabin village.      Full news...

  • December 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Public representative accused of harassing locals through police
    PAN: Some residents of Borka district in northern Baghlan province have accused member of a provincial council of harassing and intimidating locals through police force. Abdul Jabar Islami, administrative head of Borka district, alleged that Haji Mohammad, a provincial council member, of using police officials to harass and press local citizens.      Full news...

  • December 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan: ICC Prosecutor Finds Grave Crimes
    Human Rights Watch: The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should expedite its preliminary inquiry on grave international crimes committed in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. In its November 2013 Report on Preliminary Examination Activities, the ICC prosecutor’s office found that “[W]ar crimes and crimes against humanity were and continue to be committed in Afghanistan,”...      Full news...

  • November 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A woman’s account of Jehadi warlords’ crimes: Overcoming Odds to Fight for Justice
    The Killid Group: Deep sorrow has turned Shahfiqa Salehzai’s hair grey. In 1989 she was a married woman with three children. She worked in the development sector in a company called Yama. Her husband was a fighter pilot. Life couldn’t have been better. “We were a happy family. I had been married for 10 years. I had three children, the two older girls were nine and seven years old, and my son was the youngest,” she says.      Full news...

  • November 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Mayor’s son stabs engineer to death
    PAN: The Faizabad mayor’s son stabbed to death a construction engineer in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Syed Jahangir Karamat, the deputy police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victim, Ahmad Javed was on the way to his brother wedding’s ceremony in Faizabad.      Full news...

  • October 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Male prostitution thriving due to involvement of wealthy and powerful individuals
    PAN: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday expressed its deep concern over the increasing culture of male prostitution in society, asking the government to check the menace. The AIHRC said the immoral practice was widespread and increasingly becoming a tradition involving powerful men. The individuals complicit in the sordid business were apparently getting away with the crime, she added.      Full news...

  • October 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Presidential Hopefuls Are Told to Leave Guns at Home
    The New York Times: The deadline for registering as a candidate in Afghanistan’s coming presidential election was Sunday, and the election commission had a request for contenders: When you come to declare your candidacy, do not bring your gunmen. Afghan and Western officials have for months described the election, scheduled for April 5, as a chance for Afghans to decide the path their country will take as the forces of the American-led coalition depart.      Full news...


  • September 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Warlord ambitions cast shadow on poll legitimacy
    The Killid Group: On Sep 16, the three-week period for filing nominations for the April 2014 presidential and provincial elections started. Afghan voters will be going to the polls to decide their leaders. But there exists an underlying fear that like in previous elections the warlords, former leaders of jehadist parties, immeasurably wealthy and powerful, will deal with the destiny of people.      Full news...

  • September 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Former warlord a contender in Afghanistan elections
    Al Jazeera America: A grainy photograph of a group prayer session wouldn’t normally trigger much attention in Afghanistan’s capital. But with speculation rife about who might run for the country’s presidency, the picture of former firebrand Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf leading an evening prayer on the Afghan vice president’s porch stirred rumors about Sayaf’s political aspirations after it appeared on Facebook.      Full news...

  • September 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    You can get away  with murder when your dad is an Afghan warlord
    VICE: On a cold January afternoon last year, Qurban the bodyguard left his boss’s house in Bamyan province, Afghanistan to buy some coal at the bazar. Qurban's boss was Wahidi Beheshti – governor of a remote district in Bamyan province – who had been allowing Qurban, his wife Soraya and her 16-year-old sister Shakila to stay at his home.      Full news...

  • August 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    People demand the arrest of notorious criminal, Hakimullah Shujai
    PAN: Hundreds of people attended a gathering in western Herat province on Sunday and asked the government to arrest a notorious criminal, Hakimullah Shujai. Shujai, a resident of southern Ghazni province, has allegedly killed 121 people and injured hundreds others in the Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province.      Full news...

  • July 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Human Rights Commission Appointments Draw Fire In Afghanistan
    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...


  • May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Bomb kills 15 in Kabul, including children
    The Associated Press: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. U.S. soldiers rushed to the scene to help, including some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor.      Full news...

  • April 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A zoo pays a high price for conflict
    The Killid Group: Shah Barat was a zookeeper at the Kabul Zoo when Taleban fighters marched into the city. He did not flee like tens of thousands of people. He stayed on to look after the animals in the zoo. Before the Taleban took over the city in 1996, Kabul Zoo was home to 37 species. There was Marjan, the zoo’s much-loved lion, an Indian elephant, deer, birds and many other animals.      Full news...

  • April 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A woman’s account of Jehadi warlords’ crimes: “For my students I'm their teacher”
    The Killid Group: Years of war have turned Afghanistan into the most mined country in the world. Landmines have killed and maimed tens of thousands. Mahro was 10 years old when exploding ordnance robbed her of her sight, and the use of one hand. Now 28, she lives in Kabul’s Gulbagh area. In 1994, the family was living in Qala-e-Haidar Khan next to Arghandiin Kabul province. They owned cows, and the sale of milk was their means of livelihood.      Full news...

  • April 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Security and aid work in militia-controlled Afghanistan
    IRIN: Hamidullah, the headmaster of Haji Mir Alam girls’ school in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province, was sitting at his desk in the summer of 2011 when members of a local militia entered the school. The armed men escorted Hamidullah outside the school gate where their commander, Qadirak, was waiting. Then they beat him unconscious with their rifles.      Full news...


  • March 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The untouchable: a new breed of warlord
    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...



  • February 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan warlord Hekmatyar send out curse to democracy in Afghanistan
    Khaama Press: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Afghan warlord and founder of Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party of Afghanistan) said around 1000 people were killed during the Afghan civil war and denied to agree with the current Afghan institution, democracy and freedom of speech. While speaking during an exclusive interiew with the 1TV Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said he sends out curse to the current democracy in Afghanistan.      Full news...



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