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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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May 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Voice of Russia: In Eastern Afghanistan on Saturday night NATO was involved in another “incident”, as NATO calls them, involving the deaths of large numbers of civilians. This time NATO forces killed a family of eight people, including six children, in the Paktia province. Many experts say the “incident” threatens to further strain the already tense relationship between President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers. Full news...
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May 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group (Translated by RAWA): A young woman was hung to death by her husband in Ghazni province according to a report of Radio Killid. Shukria Wali, head of the Women’s Affairs of Ghazni, confirmed the news and told the radio that Halima, who was 35-years old, was killed the night before in the Tawghi Sang Masha village of Jaghori district. She said the reason for the murder was domestic violence and her husband was in police custody. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Local authorities in the southern province of Ghazni on Monday said about 75,000 acres of land had been illegal taken by warlords and powerful people. Most of the warlords seized the land in Ghazni City, the provincial capital and some other districts, according to Abdul Jami Jami, the deputy head of the provincial council. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A number of schoolchildren in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Monday complained they could not go to schools because of security posts established nearby. Taj Mohammad, a ninth class student at the Shaheed Abdul Ghayas Middle School, told Pajhwok Afghan News local police had established their posts near their school. Fearing militant attacks on the security personnel, students were not willing to go to the school, he said. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera and agencies: Afghan authorities say that at least eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition in the eastern province of Paktia. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition said it was aware of the allegation and was investigating the incident, which happened late on Saturday night. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: US troops arrested four civilians during an overnight operation in northwestern Faryab province, where one policeman and two militants were injured during a clash, officials said on Sunday. The US Special Forces from the Bagram airfield in central Parwan province carried out the operation on the house of a local resident named Makhdoom Habibullah in the Deh Naw village of Sabz Posh district, Abdullah Masoomi, the district chief... Full news...
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May 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Once again radicals opposing girls’ education on Sunday poisoned more than three dozen schoolgirls in northern Takhar province, the third incident of its kind over the past two months, officials said. The victims, students of the Bibi Hajira High School, situated on the 5th road of Taloqan city, the provincial capital, fell sick for unknown reasons... Full news...
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May 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Only a few hours’ drive from the Afghan capital Kabul is an area renowned for some of the world’s brightest and most valuable rubies. But this wealth is being plundered by thieves, corrupt officials and the Taliban, as the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary discovers. The sun was about to rise over the Hindu Kush peaks surrounding Kabul when we hit the road to Jegdalek. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Iran has earmarked 25 million USD for blocking the parliamentary approval of the Afghan-US strategic cooperation agreement, a knowledgeable source said on Thursday. The neighbouring country has allegedly paid a colossal amount of money to Wolesi Jirga member Hazrat Ali in return for opposing the deal, signed Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai on May 1. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CMJ: On Sunday, May 20th, veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and the “Global War on Terror”, led by the Iraq Veterans Against the War, returned their war medals to NATO’s generals, denouncing and calling an end to these senseless wars. This past weekend, President Barack Obama hosted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in his hometown of Chicago. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Students staged a protest against foreign forces for detaining their schoolmates and teachers in northeastern Badakhashn province on Thursday. Two university lecturers, two schoolteachers and as many studetns were detained during a joint operation by Afghan and Internatioal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) personnel in the Gul Dara area on the outskirts of Faizabad, the provincial captial. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A teenage girl in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday claimed a local policeman raped her and held her captive for several days. A group of policemen, led by Commander Mohammad Ishaaq Nizami, forcibly entered her house and took her away last week, the 18-year-old alleged. Full news...
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May 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country’s north, Afghan police and education officials said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms. Scores of students were left unconscious. Full news...
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May 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Relatives of a teenage girl, who was found dead in her brother-in-law’s house last year, on Monday accused a provincial council member of shooting her during a court hearing in central Bamyan province. The 16-year-old victim, identified as Shakila, was found shot dead in the Zargaran village on the outskirts of Bamyan City, the provincial capital. Full news...
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May 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In the shadow of the Nato summit, under the watchful eyes of a phalanx of full-black-clad riot police, dozens of former servicemen and women in uniform, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, threw away their medals, with apologies. It was one of the most moving experiences many of us had witnessed in our lives. It is hard to describe in words. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: At least 21 people have died and scores of others have gone missing after flash floods triggered by torrential rains destroyed thousands of homes in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, officials have said. It was reported on Sunday that the floods left thousands of people homeless on Saturday after it struck the provincial capitals of Sari Pul and Takhar. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Msnbc.com: Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country’s security forces, Britain's Sunday Times reported. In Ghazni province an hour from capital Kabul, Afghan army lieutenant Mohammad Wali admitted to the newspaper that he and a local Taliban commander were working together. Full news...
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May 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unidentified gunmen set fire to a boys’ school in the northern province of Baghlan, affecting hundreds of students, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place late on Friday night in the Kishanabad area of Banu district, the town’s administrative head, Abdul Wali Hamidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. A delegation was sent to the area to assess the damage, he said. Full news...
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May 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to invite members of Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance to this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago. Yet, especially given Rohrabacher‘s strong human rights record, many Afghans are wondering why his NATO guest list is stacked with warlords that have as much blood on their hands as the Taliban. Full news...
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May 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Close ties between Afghan Taliban or criminal elements and officials highly placed in the government threaten to prevent the Afghan National Army from fulfilling its security responsibilities when it fully takes over control of the country, a top Afghan general told The Huffington Post. Full news...
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