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June 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Taliban fighters overran checkpoints in a nighttime raid in Afghanistan’s volatile southern Helmand province, killing at least 20 police officers as the battle raged into Saturday, authorities said. The assault came as Afghanistan’s military acknowledged the Taliban controls at least four districts across the country. Full news...
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June 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Afghanistan’s once-thriving Sikh community is dwindling fast as many choose to leave the country of their birth to escape what they say is growing intolerance and discrimination. Once boasting as many as 100,000 members in the 1990s, Afghanistan’s Sikh population, according to community leaders, has dwindled to an estimated 2,500. Full news...
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June 8, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RTT: The conflict in Afghanistan is resulting in thousands of people being killed or wounded, forcing families to leave their homes and seek refuge in neighboring communities, said Mark Bowden, the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Abdul Hadin, who was a member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) before losing a leg in a suicide attack, has blasted government for allegedly ignoring his plight. Hadi, who was left disabled in a Zabul bombing, claims the government has done nothing to help with medical treatment. Hadi who lives in northeastern Badakhshan said he served 13 years in the police force and he is the only breadwinner for his family. Full news...
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June 6, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents on Saturday disputed official claim that seven people, including women and children, were killed on Friday in a roadside bombing, saying the wedding guests fell prey to mortar shells fired by security forces in southern Ghazni province. An official said on Friday the seven persons were killed and another six were injured in a landmine blast that struck a vehicle carrying wedding guests near the provincial capital, Ghazni City. Full news...
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June 5, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The teachers’ strike has entered its sixth day but no government official has yet met with the strikers to listen to their demands, the protesters claimed on Saturday. Dozens of teachers from different parts of Kabul gathered at Habibia High School on Saturday where they accused the government of being silent on the issue. Full news...
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June 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Participants in a series of IWPR-organised debates said that many Afghan children are forced into hard physical labour in order to support their families, and miss out on education as a result. The discussion events held in Nangarhar, Paktia and Helmand provinces heard that children’s basic rights were often ignored. Full news...
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June 3, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A new study by World Justice Project (WJP) illustrates Afghanistan is the second-worst country in rule of law after Venezuela topped the list of 102 countries ranked in the report. The U.S.-based non-profit association – which aims to advance rule of law around the world – released the index on Tuesday which was prepared based on responses from 1,000 people in each country and a total of 2,400 experts on how ordinary people see rule of law in their country. Full news...
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June 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press Trust of India: War in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion that overthrew the Taliban regime and sparked an insurgency has killed almost 100,000 people, and wounded the same number, according to a new report from Brown University. The study, called Costs of War and produced by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, looks at war-related deaths... Full news...
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June 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its concerns about reports that the Afghan government recently exchanged 22 children born to militants fighting in Afghanistan for the freedom of 19 hostages being held by insurgents in Zabul and Ghazni provinces. The international advocacy group has demanded the government shed light on the matter. Full news...
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June 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: In the conflict-ridden Afghanistan, children are the most vulnerable sector of society bearing the brunt of war as many of them lost their fathers in the conflict and are forced to work on the streets to support their families. Nearly 3.5 million Afghan children, according to Dr. L.N. Balaji, deputy representative to Afghanistan of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are out of school... Full news...
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May 31, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A primary school was bombed from the air during an operation against militants in the Barak-i-Barak district of central Logar province, killing two students and injuring four others, including a teacher. Logar education director Mohammad Akbar Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the school was hit about 9am in the Jalozo area. Full news...
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May 30, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Many hundreds of people have been armed along the border, and their numbers are growing. The police commander of Kunduz has posted a video on a social network site of armed men in national dress saying they would soon recapture the Gultapa area from the government’s opponents. While local authorities are all for the strategy, there are serious misgivings among people. Full news...
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May 29, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: The Hazaras stand apart in Afghanistan. Their ethnic appearance is disctinct, and theirs is a Shiite faith in a Sunni-majority country. They are one of the three big ethnic groups, but theirs is a long history of persecution that has included massacres and cultural losses such as the destruction of the centuries-old Buddha statues of Bamiyan... Full news...
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May 28, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, photographer Gabriela Maj met Fareshte, an inmate of Badam Bagh women’s prison, while on assignment in Afghanistan. At the time, Fareshte had been incarcerated and was awaiting two sentences related to so-called moral crimes. Full news...
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May 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Parchaman district’s administrative head is involved in killing and torturing several civilians, besides extorting cash from the people, residents of western Farah province allege. More than 3,000 families have allegedly been forced into migrating from Parchaman owing to the strong-arm tactics of the district chief, Mohammad Daud Mobarez, and his supporters. Full news...
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May 25, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ANI: At least five people have been killed and 62 injured in a suicide bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul Province, said authorities. According to the Dawn, council director Atta Jan Haqbayan said that a blast took place at the gate of the provincial council’s compound in provincial capital Kalat. Full news...
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May 25, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: Taliban gunmen surrounded a police compound in the volatile southern province of Helmand after killing 19 policemen and seven soldiers in an ongoing siege, a senior police officer said on Monday from inside the compound. Napas Khan, the police chief in the Naw Zad district, told The Associated Press by telephone that the insurgents had advanced to within 65 feet of the compound... Full news...
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May 23, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Code 91 is a part of the budget that the president has complete control over, and to be used in case of emergency. But money has been withdrawn against the signature of previous president Hamid Karzai in the last financial year for disbursal among Members of Parliament (MPs), senators, high-ranking government authorities, his advisers and office. Very little has gone into the pockets of the poor. Full news...
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May 22, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unidentified men lobbed hand grenade on a wedding party in the Ankhoy district of northern Faryab province, leaving 15 persons, with some of them critically wounded, the district chief said on Friday. Sultan Sanjar told Pajhwok Afghan News that the wedding ceremony of the son of Noor Mohammad, director revenue of the district, was attacked with a hand grenade in the Qorghan area. Full news...
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May 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Sixty percent of Afghan workers are jobless, and those who are employed rarely have the assurance of regular working hours in a safe environment. Maroof Qaderi, the head of the Labour Union of Afghanistan says ILO (International Labour Organisation) and CSO (Central Statistic Office) figures show 12 million people qualify as workers in the country. Full news...
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May 20, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Eleven police officers have been sentenced to one year in prison for their role in the mob lynching of a woman in Kabul that caused outrage in Afghanistan and abroad. A primary court judge found the officers guilty of dereliction of duty, while acquitting another eight due to lack of evidence. The verdict has exasperated Afghans who had hoped to see the government make political strides in defence of women’s rights. Full news...
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May 19, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: At least five people have been killed by a bomb in the parking lot of Afghanistan’s justice ministry building in Kabul, according to several officials. Reuters news agency confirmed citing Sediq Sediqqi, spokesperson for the interior ministry, that five people were dead and several more wounded in Tuesday’s blast. Full news...
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May 19, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Spiegel Online: His war only lasted from one dawn to the next. When the sun rose for the second time over the Syrian city of Aleppo, Murad, a farmer from Afghanistan, was still cowering on the second floor of the house he was supposed to defend to the death. That, at least, is what his Iranian officer had ordered him to do. Full news...
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May 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Two young sisters were among those killed. Relatives of the two girls, who were on their way to school when the attack took place, spoke out on Monday about their plight, pleading for financial assistance in order to pay for a proper funeral for their murdered loved ones. Full news...
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May 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb that detonated Sunday morning on a crowded road near Afghanistan’s main international airport, hitting a vehicle of the European Union’s police advisory mission and killing three people, Afghan and international officials said. Sediq Sediqqi, the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, said the explosion occurred on Hawa Shanasi road, a street close to a military entrance to the airport. Full news...
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May 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The Taliban militants have abducted dozens of Passengers from eastern Paktia province of Afghanistan, local officials said. The officials further added that the passengers were abducted while they were travelling in Syed Karam district early on Saturday morning. Full news...
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May 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Taking office in September, President Ashraf Ghani pledged to fight corruption and end more than a decade of war with the Taliban and its allies. Instead, Ghani’s unity government has faced a series of stiff military and economic challenges that have led to increasing disenchantment after the first peaceful transfer of power in Afghanistan’s modern history. Full news...
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May 11, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In November 2008, an Estonian minister by the name of Harri Tiido was being given a tour of Helmand province. Estonians were stationed in Nawzad, which had once been a town of 30,000 people, but was now deserted, “with the two sides dug into first world war-type trenches with their lines 300 yards apart”. After receiving the usual PowerPoint briefing, Tiido was asked by his British hosts if he had any questions: “I have only one,” he said. “What the fuck are we doing here?” Full news...
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May 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Afghanistan’s poppy fields are thriving, with cultivation of the crop hitting record highs last year. Poppy produces opium, the main ingredient in heroin. Already, the country supplies 90 percent of the world’s heroin, leading to tens of thousands of deaths every year. Not only is Afghanistan the global leader in opium production, but Afghans are now the leading consumers of their own drugs. Full news...
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