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February 20, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There was a 22 percent rise in conflict-related deaths and injuries of Afghan civilians in 2014, says a new UN report. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says increased ground engagements between parties to the armed conflict in Afghanistan are behind the rise. Full news...
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February 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Decades of war have had a disastrous effect on Afghans’ mental health, according to panellists in a series of IWPR-organised debates. At one event held on February 1 at the women’s affairs department in the Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Dr Hanifa Yusufi noted that decades of conflict had had a profound impact, especially on women and young children. Full news...
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February 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ariana News: Firuz, a 23 year old Afghan boy burned himself on Saturday at Pashtunistan cross-road of Kabul City after her favorite girl gang raped by a group of unknown men. He died at the same day after he burned himself, but he left a letter asking the people to stand firmly against injustice so they do not face with the same situation. Full news...
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February 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Monday announced that more than 4,250 cases of violence against women have been recorded in the past nine months. A number of analysts have said that the main factor behind the growing issue of violence against women is the non-implementation of law. Full news...
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February 15, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A 10-year-old girl from northern Balkh province has been forced to marry a boy whose sister eloped with the girl’s uncle, a decision by tribal elders as part of an old tradition called “Baad” aimed at settling disputes between the parties in conflict. In another case of violence against women in Herat, a man sliced his wife’s neck leaving her to die, according to the police. Full news...
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February 14, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: An eight-month pregnant mother lost her child after she was severely beaten by a Mullah who believed to be an exorcist in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz. The newly-wed woman, who requested her name not be revealed, said the Mullah named Dost Mohammad claimed that she was possessed after her husband’s family took her to him for a ritual treatment, when all she was suffering from was low blood pressure. Full news...
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February 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: U.S. Special Forces soldiers and their Afghan allies have undertaken an increasing number of night raids targeting Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, despite Washington formally declaring an end to combat operations late last year, according to a published report. The New York Times reports that the increased raids are partially the result of intelligence seized in October of last year... Full news...
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February 12, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: If Americans utilized the outrage over American Sniper, the Brian Williams saga, and Kanye West rushing the stage at the Grammys, and aimed this vitriol at President Obama’s request for a new war, we could possibly avert yet another colossal mistake. Sadly, our nation will spend a great deal of time focusing on the whether or not a movie makes us more warlike, while overlooking the impact of real wars. Full news...
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February 11, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Workers of a textile factory on Wednesday protested against powerful individuals for grabbing houses the government has constructed for them in the capital of northern Baghlan province. Based on a decision by the parliament, the newly-constructed houses in Shar-i-Naw, Yaksad Penjakoti, Dosadkoti, Shashsadkoti areas of Pul-i-Khumri and those constructed on the left side of the Pul-i-Khumri river belong to workers of the textile factory. Full news...
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February 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Afghanistan’s high rate of unemployment is driving young men into the arms of insurgent groups, speakers at a series of recent IWPR-organised debates agreed. Participants in Paktika, Kunar and Helmand provinces all said that young men often had so few employment options that some travelled illegally to Pakistan or Iran to find work, while others joined an insurgent group. Full news...
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February 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A heavily pregnant woman, a policeman’s wife, was gang-raped by five men in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday, as the victim threatened to commit suicide. A relative of the 17-year-old woman told Pajhwok Afghan News she was only a month away from giving birth when five men rapped her last night in Shiberghan, the provincial capital. Full news...
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February 8, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Hopes pinned on Aynak in Logar, Hajigak in Bamyan and the Amo river as potential sources of huge tax revenue for Afghanistan are fading. Ambitious plans to mine copper and iron ore in Aynak and Hajigak respectively are still on paper; oil drilling from the Amo river has started but it’s nowhere close to the 300,000 barrels projected when the contract was awarded in 2012. Full news...
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February 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
USA Today: Men, women and children sit listlessly on the unkempt lawn of a hospital for drug addicts in this northern Afghan city. Inside, the waiting area is packed with women clad in light blue burqas, each with three or four kids in tow. Ana Gul, 35, an opium user for eight years, says she came here after failing to kick her habit because opium cures her head and body aches. Full news...
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February 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PRI: America may be done with the war in Afghanistan, but Afghanistan itself isn’t anywhere close to peaceful yet. In fact, as Afghan forces took over security in the country throughout 2014, more Afghan soldiers died than during any other year of the war. Some 5,000 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in 2014. That’s more than the US lost in all 13 years of combat operations. In addition, more than 3,000 Afghan civilians were killed. Full news...
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February 3, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents on Tuesday complained about a shortage of doctors and medical practitioners at government hospitals and overall poor health services in western Ghor province. Four patients, sharing a single bed, were treated by doctors at the main hospital, residents said, adding it had been a normal practice for years. The building of Ghor Civil Hospital was constructed some 50 years ago. Full news...
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February 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The administrative chief for Charkh district in central Logar province on Monday said Islamic State (IS) militants had killed a Taliban commander and ordered residents to stop watching TV programmes. Khalilullah Kamal told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban commander was killed in an early morning clash between the two groups in the main district bazaar. Full news...
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January 30, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pravda.ru: In order to fully communicate the history of the Islamic State and its relationship with the House of Saud and Turkey, we consulted Jeffrey Steinberg, Senior Editor and Counterintelligence Director of the Executive Intelligence Review with 40 years of experience working with the LarouchePAC. He is also member of and active contributor to the Schiller Institute based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Full news...
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January 29, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: An Afghan soldier killed three U.S. contractors and wounded a fourth on Thursday at Kabul’s military airport, an Afghan air force official said. An increase in so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan eroded trust between government forces and their international allies in the final years of the combat mission that ended in 2014, prompting foreign forces to scale back interaction with Afghans. Full news...
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January 27, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Travellers on many of Afghanistan’s roads are never sure of reaching their destinations. Armed groups routinely rob and also kill passengers in buses and other vehicles. According to eyewitness accounts, travellers on the busy Kabul to Kandahar highway are attacked even in the day time. Security forces are not able to provide every vehicle with armed escorts. Full news...
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January 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Officials and residents of central Bamyan province allege an influential man, Haji Ayan, has grabbed hundreds of acres of state-owned land along with other local strongmen. Eng. Khadim Hussain Fitrat, the mayor of Bamyan City, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Monday that Ayan and his associates had started selling plots of the land. Full news...
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January 23, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: There is a terrifying enemy threatening civilians in war-torn Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. This is another foe besides the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Syrian regime or ISIS. It’s a silent menace that may yet be the most powerful. It is hunger. Millions in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq are suffering each day from the lack of food. Malnutrition claims the lives of infants. Those who survive are stunted physically and mentally for life. Full news...
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January 22, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the Nesh district of southern Kandahar province on Thursday claimed police had established check-posts in their houses, but refused to pay rent. Abdul Rahman, who lives in Dara-i-Noor village, said police had long been using homes of residents as their posts without paying rent. In addition, police asked locals for firewood and money. Full news...
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January 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: Violence and threats against Afghanistan’s journalists by the government and security forces are increasing, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These attacks put at risk the gains in media freedom in Afghanistan since 2001. The 48-page report, “‘Stop Reporting or We’ll Kill Your Family’: Threats to Media Freedom in Afghanistan,” documents harassment, intimidation, and attacks on journalists... Full news...
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January 20, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RTT News: Afghanistan’s United Nations-backed de-mining agency says a record number of its personnel were killed or injured in 2014. The Mine Action Program of Afghanistan (MAPA) said Monday that 34 of its personnel were killed and 27 others injured in 37 security incidents in the war-torn country last year. Full news...
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January 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of Khanabad district of northeastern province of Kunduz claimed hundreds of families in their area displaced due to increased insecurity, claiming their houses were looted by illegal armed individuals. Heavy clashes between illegal armed individuals and militants over the past four days left four armed men and eight rebels dead and 20 others wounded. Full news...
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January 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock minister-designate Mohammad Yaqub Haidari is on the most wanted list of the International Police (Interpol) for tax evasion. According to the information provided on Interpol website Haidari is wanted by the judicial authorities of Estonia for prosecution. Full news...
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January 15, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An overwhelming majority of the ministers-designate and heads of independent departments lack requisite professional expertise, Pajhwok Afghan News has found. Only 15 percent of the nominees have mandatory educational qualifications and 63 percent are inexperienced, according to documents made available to this news agency. Full news...
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January 14, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Rawail Singh, a leader of Kabul’s Sikh community, is a big supporter of recently sworn-in President Ashraf Ghani : His Facebook profile features a photo of the president holding his 4-year-old daughter during a campaign rally. But despite Mr. Ghani’s pledge to make Afghanistan more inclusive, Mr. Singh says he worries that his tiny religious minority could disappear as more Sikhs and Hindus leave their homeland because of persistent discrimination. Full news...
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January 14, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Gunmen linked to the Islamic State (IS) have established a training centre in the Khak-i-Safaid district of western Farah province, local officials said on Wednesday. The district chief, Abdul Khaliq Noorzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News the IS -- a group fighting in Iraq and Syria -- had emerged in Mazar Qala area about 20 days ago. Full news...
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January 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Central Statistics Office on Tuesday expressed its concern over lack of civic services in Kabul, putting the capital’s population at 4.2 million, most of them unemployed. The findings came in a survey that was conducted with technical support from the UN Population Fund (UNPF) in 2013. Announced today, the study covered 30 districts, including 3,068 areas. Full news...
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