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March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
War Is A Crime.org: In two jam-packed appearances this weekend, Afghan feminist leader Malalai Joya reached at least 1500 people with her denunciations of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. She spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky to 1200 people at Harvard’s Memorial Church Friday night and to 300 in Jamaica Plain this afternoon. Full news...
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March 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday. Full news...
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March 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: NATO said Thursday it will investigate a police claim a NATO helicopter gunship targeting terrorists killed a child in the eastern Afghan Khost province. Coalition forces opened fire from the attack helicopter on a car carrying a group of suspected Haqqani network terrorists Wednesday but accidentally hit another vehicle, killing the child, Khost Police Chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told reporters. Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Many women in central Daikundi province are dying unnecessarily because there are no female doctors in any of the districts. The provincial council has accused the nongovernmental organisation contracted for the last four years to provide health services in Daikundi of not doing its job. Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SocialistWorker.org: IT SEEMS like a ludicrous claim now, but when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan nearly 10 years ago in the “war on terror,” one of the most potent justifications was to liberate Afghan women. George W. Bush lined up a group of influential women, including his wife Laura and liberal feminist organizations like the Feminist Majority Foundation, to press the case... Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters UK: Most Britons are unclear about what the government’s goals are in Afghanistan and only one in four believe the current strategy is working well, a poll published on Wednesday on behalf of leading aid groups showed. The survey comes only a day after a separate poll found that just one in three Britons were in favour of a decision to take military action in Libya. Full news...
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March 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Ahmad Waleed has trouble remembering things. Waleed blames his forgetfulness on a suicide attack which he survived three years ago. The boy was among dozens of students escorting a parliamentary delegation to a sugar factory in northern Baghlan province on Nov. 6, 2007, when a bomber blew himself up and killed 74 people. Full news...
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March 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-US protests around the world. Full news...
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March 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Boston Globe Blog: Malalai Joya is a 32-year-old Afghan woman named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Foreign Policy Magazine listed her on its annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers, and last week The Guardian listed her among the “Top 100 women: activists and campaigners” in the world. So why is the U.S. State Department refusing to let Ms. Joya visit our country? Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: The US government has denied an entry visa to Malalai Joya for her upcoming book tour for “A Woman Among Warlords”. According to a press statement released Joya, she was denied entry into the US because, “She was ‘unemployed’ and ‘lives underground’… Because of her harsh criticism of warlords and fundamentalists in Afghanistan, she has been the target of at least five assassination attempts.” Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: An Afghan warlord backed by US special forces faces persistent allegations that he launched a two-year spate of violence involving burglary, rape and murder of civilians, desecration of mosques and mutilation of corpses. Yet, despite repeated warnings about the atrocities Commander Azizullah is alleged to have committed, he has remained on the payroll of the US military... Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A recount of votes in southeastern Paktia province showed massive rigging had taken place in last year’s parliamentary election, an official said on Thursday. The recount, completed on Wednesday, had been ordered by a special court looking to allegations of fraud in the Sept. 18 election, said Paktia’s appellant court chief, Abdul Jalil Maulvizada. Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Abdul Majid, 12, sits crying quietly in a corner of the Ansar refugee camp in Herat province. He is alone in Afghanistan; his parents and seven siblings are all back in the Iran. He said he was out with some friends in a park near his home in Semnan province one evening when he was detained. Weeping bitterly, Abdul Majid said he did not know anyone in Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the Sawakai district in eastern Kunar province on Thursday declared a three-day mourning period for victims of a coalition airstrike. They also announced suspension of work in public and private sectors for the same period in protest against the air raid that killed two teenage boys watering their farmland two days ago, Shah Jehan, a resident said. Full news...
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March 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: It was two o’clock in the morning on Feb. 15. Mullah Abdul Khaliq, who taught at a local school here in Nawa district, was asleep with his family when the helicopters began circling overhead. “We could not leave our houses,” said Abdullah, a neighbor of Mullah Khaliq’s. Full news...
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March 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Seventeenth-century Persian poet Saeb Tabrizi famously sang the praises of Kabul’s lush gardens and sparkling water, extolling “the beauty of her trees” and “colorful tulips” and beseeching Allah to “protect such beauty from the evil eye of man.” Some 400 years later, the so-called king of poets must be rolling over in his tomb, as the last three decades seem to have brought much evil to this ancient city that connects Central and South Asia. Full news...
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March 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Nearly 300 foreign advisers, most of them Americans, work at Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, and hundreds more work in other government departments, a reliance on foreign expertise that raises doubts about the viability of the West’s exit strategy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will announce later this month his plans for “transition” from heavy international involvement in Afghanistan’s governance and security to local control. Full news...
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March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Japan Times: Self-immolation committed by a large number of Afghan women is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured and shunned by their communities. Full news...
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March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan has killed 37 people. It was the third major assault in the area in less than a month, the deputy governor said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the militant Islamist group. Dozens more were wounded, officials said. Full news...
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March 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A vehicle of foreign troops traveling in a convoy crushed to death a child in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Chawni area of Kandahar City, the provincial capital, on Saturday afternoon, Zalmay Ayubi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An investigation has been launched to determine whether the victims were civilians or militants, the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The men, who were killed in the overnight operation in Gul Bagh area on the outskirts of Jalalabad, were brothers, said a tribal elder, Ghulam Nabi. Full news...
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March 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Taliban militants cut off the ears of four Afghans working for a government-funded development project in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial government said Thursday. The militants on Wednesday detained eight people, including four children, who all work for the development project in the Zhari district, a statement issued by the governor’s office said. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Iranian weapons en route to Taliban have been seized by International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in the border city of Nimroz. The weapons include 48 rockets with a range of 20 kilometers, officials have said. The seized rockets reportedly double the usual range of the rockets used by the Taliban. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: One woman died and another was injured when soldiers from the NATO-led coalition opened fire in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the incident, but that a preliminary report showed the two women were over a kilometer away from where the firing took place. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A sharp jump in assassinations and a rise in suicide and roadside bombings in Afghanistan last year led to an increase in civilian casualties, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations documented 2,777 civilian deaths in 2010, which it said was a 15 percent rise over the number killed in fighting the previous year. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Insurgents shot dead a man and his son on the charge of spying for the government in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Thursday. The two were gunned down while returning home from a mosque, the provincial police chief, Abdul Jabbar Purdali, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The father, 50, and his son, 18, had no links to the government, he said. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A number of people in Kunduz claim that local militias take their money and mobile phones forcefully and in some cases even beat them up. They say that although this province has been cleared of armed anti-government forces, the people will distance themselves from the government if things continued this way, thus paving the way for the insurgents to return. The people demanded the government to dissolve this illegal force. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: To watch a 2003 video of Malalai Joya, then in her early 20s, making a speech is to witness phenomenal courage and the power of speaking out. Joya, now 32, was an elected delegate to the Loya Jirga (an assembly to debate the proposed Afghan constitution) when she stood up and publicly criticised the room full of men. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a female police official in the western province of Herat. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and wounded 2nd Lt. Maryam, head of a police recruitment centre, after she left her home in Paen Aab and went out of the city. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TheWip: The great number of Afghan women who commit self-immolation (burning oneself to death) is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes its victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured, and shunned by their communities. Full news...
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