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September 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: High ranking government officials and personnel at President Hamid Karzai’s office are receiving substantial “incentive payments” of up to 7000 USD a month, a TOLOnews investigation can reveal. The investigation has documents showing that 11 million Afghanis (USD 220,000) was spent in two months for 80 employees at the Presidential Palace. Full news...
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September 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Asia Times Online: Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever. With the US military officially drawing down its troops there, the Pentagon is now evidently reversing the process and embarking on a major deconstruction program. Full news...
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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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September 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Around a third of young children in southern Afghanistan are acutely malnourished, with a level of deprivation similar to that found in famine zones, a government survey has found, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into the region. Full news...
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September 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: They work hard; and despite their country’s poverty and political instability, they play hard, too. Few Afghans have benefited more from the past 10 years of post-Taliban government than children, and few stand to lose more if their nation slips back under Taliban rule after US and NATO troops depart in 2014. Full news...
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September 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: The words returned to Lt. Col. Daniel Mouton months later, freighted with a new and troubling connotation. “Good people come to Muqur, but good people don’t leave,” Afghan Col. Mohammad Wasil told him this past spring, during one of their earliest conversations. “It is impossible to stay clean in Muqur.” Full news...
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September 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: On the bed of this village’s only pickup truck, three bullet-riddled bodies were laid out on Sunday, hastily wrapped in sheets. Behind the truck, several cars, their hatchbacks propped open as they bounced down the dirt roads, carried one or two bodies each. All 15 of the village’s vehicles, most of them shabby and old, joined the grim convoy, stuffed with 200 distraught relatives and 11 of their dead. Full news...
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September 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Abdul Karim was inside when the first rocket struck, killing nearly everyone in a neighboring mud-brick house. Many more rockets followed, raining down on the village as Karim and others fled for safety in the nearby mountains. Within minutes, it was over, but it was only a sign of what was to come. Full news...
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September 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: An attack by two suicide bombers just outside a U.S. military outpost in Wardak province at daybreak Saturday, Sept. 1, killed at least a dozen Afghans and wounded 58 others, according to Afghan and U.S. officials. Several U.S. soldiers were also wounded. The same military base suffered a devastating truck bombing last year on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Full news...
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August 31, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: An Afghan Cabinet minister dogged by torture allegations is slated to become the new chief of Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security. The appointment of Asadullah Khalid, the minister of border and tribal affairs, will be announced within days by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said a man who knows Khalid. Full news...
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August 31, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban. A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police... Full news...
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August 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A young girl was found hanging dead from the ceiling of her room in Shiberghan city, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, on Thursday, officials said. The 11th grade schoolgirl was found dead in her house in the first police district, police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Aziz Ghairat told Pajhwok Afghan New. Full news...
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August 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Voice of Russia: Another case of US Forces desecrating remains ends with a slap on the wrist for some of the perpetrators while others received no disciplinary action and on the same day the burning of Korans was also brushed off with those guilty also escaping serious punishment. Against the backdrop of increased Afghan on NATO violence and the beheading of 17 partygoers by Islamists... Full news...
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August 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OpEdNews: Last evening I was watching an episode of Bill Maher on HBO and he put up a copy of the New York Times that showed the 2,000 pictures of Americans killed in Afghanistan since the war began. Having been to Afghanistan I thought how ludicrous it was. Maybe what they should have shown were the more than 36,000 pictures of the unarmed men, women and children who were killed or raped by American forces in Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Seventeen civilians were beheaded, 10 Afghan soldiers killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody few hours across Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The civilians, including two women, were beheaded in a southern Afghanistan village in a region plagued by the Taliban insurgency. Full news...
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August 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man killed his sister and two young men for allegedly committing adultery in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said on Sunday. The “honour killing” took place in Pailoch area of Deh Yak district when the brother shot dead his sister along with two men for having “illicit relations,” the town’s administrative head Fazal Ahmad Tolwak told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Local officials on Thursday alleged that 136 rockets fired from across the border in Pakistan had landed in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province over the past two days. A hundred rockets were fired by the Pakistani forces on Wednesday and another 36 early on Thursday, the governor’s spokesman, Wasifullah Wasifi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Abdul Karim walked for nearly 12 hours to cross the border into Pakistan and escape the warlords who were raining rockets on his neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul. That was nearly two decades ago, when he was a young teenager. Since then, he’s gotten married and raised six children, all born in Pakistan. Full news...
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August 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: It was once President Barack Obama’s “war of necessity.” Now, it’s America’s forgotten war. The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It’s not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress – even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day. Full news...
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August 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: What happened in Kunar Province in Afghanistan on Saturday, August 18? One thing we know: dozens of dead bodies, following an airstrike by the US/NATO command on what the American military says was a gathering of Taliban officials. But, typical of the eleven-year-old war, even scores of deaths in a remote location barely register on the Richter scale of casualties... Full news...
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August 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Left Foot Forward: The death of another two British soldiers last week in Helmand was followed by the usual 30-second Colonel’s voxpop on the 10 o’clock news and accompanied by the standard release of heartfelt messages of condolence from their surviving comrades on the MoD website. Other than the quick delivery of facts, there has been very little analysis of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by the British media. Full news...
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August 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Local government officials in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan said a young Afghan girl was raped by two men in this province. The officials furhter added the eight years old Afghan girl was raped in Qaisar district at Ghori Raheen village three days back. Full news...
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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Provincial officials in northern Afghanistan have asked the central government in Kabul to decide whether a street in Mazar-e Sharif should be named after a group of Iranian diplomats killed there in 1998. The move, announced in a statement by the Administrative Council of Balkh Province, comes after a scandal erupted over reports that the street with Iran’s former... Full news...
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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: After US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly walked off a US base in Kandahar last March and went house to house, killing a total of 17 Afghan civilians, many worried that the Taliban would capitalize on the incident and the long restive province would revert to violence. Yet more than five months later, violence in Kandahar remains at record lows. Full news...
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August 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Three suicide bombers killed at least 30 civilians in a coordinated attack Tuesday in a city in southwestern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials. Later, at least 10 civilians were killed in a bombing in a bazaar in the north. The attacks began early Tuesday afternoon when 10 insurgents entered Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimruz province... Full news...
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August 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Prensa Latina: A little more than 10 years after the invasion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Afghanistan is still the main generator of opium with calculations estimated just over 90 percent of world production. This element, translated into the inner realities of the invaded country, implies a figure close to 500 million USD in the gross domestic product (GDP) a year and that obviously Hamid Karzai’s regime does not take into account. Full news...
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August 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Express Tribune: Outside Peshawar’s mosques, after Friday prayers, magazines with articles and pictures of attacks by the Afghan Taliban and violence carried out by Nato forces are distributed, most of the time for free. The magazines are usually accompanied by guidance on Shariah law. These magazines are available in a number of languages including Urdu, English, Farsi and Dari, reaching out to a wide-ranging audience. 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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August 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Local: The German officer who ordered an air strike that killed more than 100 Afghan civilians and cost the jobs of the defence minister, the head of the army and a senior state secretary, is to be promoted to general next year. Colonel Georg Klein, 51, has been offered a job as division director in the new federal office for personnel management, a position that includes an automatic promotion to general. Full news...
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August 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A local reporter on Saturday complained that he was beaten by security guards of the governor of central Uruzgan province. Najibullah Latif, who works for Yawali and Paiwastoon radio stations, said he was thrashed at 7:30 am when his car struck a vehicle of the guards. Full news...
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