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June 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide bomber killed 21 people including three U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in a packed market in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday — the third assault targeting Americans in as many days. Wednesday’s attack took place in a marketplace in the city of Khost, near the Pakistani border and about 90 miles southeast of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Full news...
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June 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The Fund for Peace released the eight edition of its annual Failed States Index (FSI), highlighting global political, economic and social pressure experienced by countries. In the Failed States Index Data 2012 Afghanistan is the sixth failed country in the world as the situation has got worst since last year’s number 7 position. Full news...
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June 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Rights activists on Monday demanded the sacking of the Afghan justice minister after he suggested women’s shelters in the war-torn country were home to “immorality and prostitution”. Justice minister Habibullah Ghaleb told a conference organised by the women’s affairs committee of the upper house of parliament on Sunday that foreign-funded rights awareness groups had been encouraging young women to defy their parents. Full news...
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June 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A commander was among 10 Taliban militants killed during a public uprising in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Tuesday. Over the past two months, angry residents began armed resistance against rebels after the forcible closure of schools and bazaars -- provoking anger among the people of Andar. Full news...
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June 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Recent violence allegedly sparked by the behaviour of local police and militia groups in northern Afghanistan has raised fears that the planned withdrawal of international forces could lead to renewed violence even in the generally more peaceful north. “Violence has been increasing. Since the Karzai government has been in power we have not seen such high levels of violence here,” said Nadira Geya... 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 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Children have been increasingly bearing the brunt of the war in Afghanistan, a new United Nations report says, detailing an array of hazards including recruitment of child bombers, school attacks and sexual abuse of minors in government custody. The number of children killed or injured in the Afghan conflict last year climbed to 1,756 -- representing an average of 4.8 child casualties a day... Full news...
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June 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Incidents of violence of violence against women in the western zone increased by 10 percent, with 194 cases registered since March 21, a human rights activist official said on Tuesday. Last year, 605 cases of violence against women were reported from Badghis, Herat, Farah and Ghor provinces, the regional chief for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said. Full news...
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June 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The Afghan government said on Monday militia loyal to army chief of staff General Abdul Rashid Dostum were disrupting oil exploration by a Chinese state firm, underlining the challenges facing foreign investors in Afghanistan. Afghanistan signed a deal late last year with China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) for the development of oil blocks in the Amu Darya basin in the north... Full news...
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June 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CPJ Blog: Danish Karokhel, who won a CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2008, messaged this morning concerned that the news agency he runs, Pajhwok Afghan News, and some other media outlets have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office by the Ministry of Information and Culture for reporting on an alleged bribery scandal involving a member of Parliament. Full news...
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June 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Tribal elders in the northern Afghan province of Badakshan tend to have the final say over if and when a woman may divorce her husband. In the province’s remote rural areas traditional `jirgas’ (councils of elders), which are known to favour keeping families together, resolve disputes, and sometimes violate women’s rights in the process. Full news...
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June 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said. Rescuers have so far pulled two women’s bodies from the rubble of the landslide in Baghlan province, said provincial Gov. Abdul Majid. The U.N. confirmed one other death and said houses were destroyed across five districts. Full news...
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June 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Though the government has ensured healthcare facilities for more than 54 percent of pregnant women across the country, only 34 percent could benefit from them due to strict cultural restrictions, officials said on Sunday. A ceremony marking “National Day of Safe Motherhood” was held in Kabul, where a message from Public Health Minister Dr. Suraya Dalil was read out. Full news...
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June 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: When the Taliban was ousted from Afghanistan in 2001, there were 5000 girls enrolled in schools across the country. A little over a decade on, that number is 2.4 million. Today, in the capital Kabul, the sight of dozens of girls walking to school together is so commonplace as to be unremarkable. But for girls in Afghanistan, getting an education remains a fraught, and at times, dangerous endeavour. Full news...
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June 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Water and Energy Minister Ismail Khan and Herat Mayor Mohammad Salim Taraki have encroached upon the properties belonging to Afghan Millie Bank’s founder Majid Zabuli, an official said on Saturday. High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption (HOOAC) Chairman Dr Azizullah Lodin accused the minister of grabbing Zabuli’s residence in Herat. Full news...
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June 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Common Dreams: Here in Afghanistan, the United States is spending 2 billion US dollars a week on war under the guise of improving Afghanistan. In Chicago at the NATO summit, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright and several influential female leaders came together and publicly claimed an American and NATO troop presence in Afghanistan was warranted in order to continue to improve the security of women. Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies. In the east, Afghan officials and residents said a pre-dawn NATO airstrike targeting militants killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children... Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Nato planes have carried out an air strike in the Afghan province of Logar, south of the capital Kabul, with several civilians reported dead. Afghan officials said 18 civilians died, including women and children. Nato said the air strike followed Afghan and foreign troops coming under fire, but added in a statement that it would investigate the incident. Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The man who has been nominated as Afghanistan’s new ambassador to the UK has been accused in the US of fraud and appears to have landed the job thanks to his contacts with Hamid Karzai’s powerful family. Mohammad Daud Yaar is at present director of economic affairs at the foreign ministry in Kabul, and a key conduit between the Afghan government and donor agencies and embassies. Full news...
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June 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Meshrano Jirga, or upper house of parliament, on Tuesday sought the suspension of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) for calling Mujideen’s Victory Day a day of national mourning. During a demonstration in Kabul last month, activists of the party characterised mujideen’s victory as a black day in the country’s history. They also slammed the communist-led coup against President Daud Khan on April 28, 1978 as a black day. 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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June 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
USA Today: Zarghoona, 37, sits on the ground in a courtyard of an impoverished Turkmen village in the northwestern province of Kunduz. Her wrinkled face make her appear twice her age. “I am from this village,” she says. “I have five sons and three daughters; one of my daughters died, though.” Losing a child is not uncommon in a nation where one in 10 children die before the age of 5 due often to preventable illnesses such as respiratory infections. Full news...
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June 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: With the end in sight for Hamid Karzai’s days in office as Afghanistan’s president, members of his family are trying to protect their status, weighing how to hold on to power while secretly fighting among themselves for control of the fortune they have amassed in the last decade. One brother, Qayum Karzai, is mulling a run for the presidency when his brother steps down in 2014. Full news...
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June 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 97 students of the Bashirabad girls’ high school in the northern province of Takhar were poisoned on Saturday, officials said. Seven schoolgirls are in critical condition while the rest were discharged from hospital after treatment, Public Health Director Habibullah Rostaqi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Lal Bibi is an 18-year-old rape victim who has taken a step rarely seen in Afghanistan: she has spoken out publicly against her tormentors, local militiamen, including several who have been identified as members of the American-trained Afghan Local Police. She says she was raped because her cousin offended a family linked to a local militia commander, who then had his men abduct her around May 17. Full news...
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June 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Young people swept through the streets of Kabul this week, defacing and tearing down posters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini plastered throughout the city. Meant to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the former Iranian supreme leader, the posters and large billboards have offended many in Afghanistan, a Sunni-majority country whose relations with its western neighbor have recently soured. Full news...
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June 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “We want peace and schooling,” said Shah Mirza, an 11-year-old Afghan child, although he was unaware of the International Children's Day which falls on June 1 every year. Attired in school uniform, Mirza was in a hurry on Thursday morning to reach the classroom on time. Mirza, the fourth-grader who wanted to become an engineer in the future, was studying in a local school set up by a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO). Full news...
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May 31, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Family members and human rights activists on Thursday asked the government to investigate physical abuse of a married girl whose tongue was cut off by her husband in northern Balkh province. Women Affairs Department officials said the accused, Saleh Mohammad, who had been arrested, cut off tongue of his pregnant wife, Nagina, on Wednesday after she refused to have a bizarre sexual act with him. Full news...
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May 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News Center: The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first four months of 2012 is 21 per cent lower than during the same period last year, the top United Nations envoy in the country reported today, while adding that deaths continued to occur at “unacceptable” levels. A study conducted by the human rights section of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) found there were 579 civilian casualties and 1,216... Full news...
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May 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 22-year-old girl hanged herself to death after her family engaged her to a person in an exchange marriage in the Lal Sarjangal district of western Ghor province on Wednesday, an official said. The girl identified as Ruqia killed herself at home at around 10am, a month before her marriage was fixed, the district crime branch police chief, Ma. Nazir Hussain, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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