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August 25, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Hundreds of angry Afghans tried to storm a small NATO base in the far northwest Wednesday after a shootout left three Spaniards and an Afghan police trainee dead, officials said. Hundreds of Afghan men then tried to over-run the Spanish-administered base in protest at the killing of the local officer, in an incident that left more than two dozen men injured, police and doctors said. Full news...
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August 24, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: A former American ambassador to Kabul claims that the U.S. forced Afghan President Hamid Karzai to rely on corruption for his very political survival, according to the New York Times: Still, some experts said that the previous “tough love” strategy had fostered paranoia inside the presidential palace in Kabul, leading Mr. Karzai to conclude the United States was trying to push him out. Full news...
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August 23, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Veterans Today: Nearly two weeks ago, some eight Aid Workers were put to death; this has further made the life insecure in Afghanistan where peace and development are most desired. Such wanton killings only further destabilise the country and the region. Today Afghanistan is home to the US and NATO forces who landed here for some hidden agendas but the declared objectives were to bring peace and development to Afghanistan, that’s not only a distant dream but its totally ignored. Full news...
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August 23, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Dallas Morning News: Three USD100 million air base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar facilities in that country to support increased U.S. military operations well into the future. Despite growing public unhappiness with the Afghan war – and President Barack Obama’s pledge that he will begin withdrawing troops in July – many of the installations being built in Afghanistan have extended time horizons. Full news...
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August 23, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: He was a very tall man who wore outsized shoes and blue clothes. Sayed Husain taught history and prayed at the mosque, and for that he was thrown into jail in 1979. It wasn't until recently that Husaini's sister, Masooma, found those shoes among the remains of hundreds of people in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan, helping to close a dark chapter for the family. Full news...
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August 20, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Questioning and dissenting voices have been mounting over the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan since the website WikiLeaks disclosed late last month a multitude of secret military records on the nine-year-old warfare. The 77,000 classified documents painted a gloomy picture of the fighting in Afghanistan, with some pointing to cover-ups of deaths of innocent civilians at the hands of the U.S. and allied forces. Full news...
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August 20, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NYDailyNews.com: Nearly six in 10 Americans are against the nine-year-old war in Afghanistan, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-GfK poll finds that only 38% of respondents support President Obama’s decision to expand the war effort, lower than the 46% who said they did in March. Only 19% believe the situation will improve in Afghanistan over the next year, while 29% think it will get worse. And 49% believe the conditions will remain the same. Full news...
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August 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UKPA: According to a latest research, Afghanistan tops the list of 163 countries which face the risk of food shortages. The ongoing violence and the country’s vulnerability to climate extremes like drought and flood have made food security hit rock-bottom. Afghanistan is at greater risk of suffering disruption to its food supplies than any other country, new research has found. Full news...
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August 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New Statesman: On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. The difference is that today there is an extraordinary way of knowing how faraway societies are routinely ravaged in our name. Full news...
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August 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Tolo News: Dozens of Afghans rallied Wednesday shouting anti-American slogans for the killing of civilians in NATO operations in eastern Afghanistan. Angry protesters in the eastern Nangarhar province rallied on Wednesday morning for the killing of two civilians and the arrest of three others by foreign forces in the province's Surkhroad district on Tuesday night. Full news...
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August 19, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai, arrested last month on charges of soliciting a bribe, was also under investigation for allegedly providing luxury vehicles and cash to presidential allies and over telephone contacts with Taliban insurgents, according to Afghan officials familiar with the case. The Afghan officials also said that it had been Karzai himself who intervened to win the quick release of the aide, Mohammad Zia Salehi, even after the arrest had been personally approved by the country’s attorney general. Full news...
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August 18, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: The 18 women sit cross-legged on metal beds, wearing long, loose dresses and nightgowns, their heads completely covered with shawls. They do not want us to see them. Some of them are holding babies in their laps. They are addicted to heroin and opium, products of Afghanistan's richest and cruelest crop, poppies. Some of their infants are addicted too. Full news...
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August 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn News: A man and woman have been stoned to death in northern Afghanistan after being accused by the Taliban of having an affair, a witness and an official said Monday. The 23-year-old woman and 28-year-old man were killed because “they had an affair,” said Mohammad Ayob, the governor of Imam Sahib district in Kunduz province. Full news...
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August 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left: The cover of the August 9 edition edition of Time magazine featured a shocking picture of Bibi Aisha, a young woman whose nose and ears had been cut off. The photo was accompanied by the headline: “What happens if we leave Afghanistan”. However, what happened to Aisha took place in Afghanistan under Western occupation. Full news...
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August 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Heraldscotland: Three weeks after the attack on America’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Tony Blair used his keynote Labour Party Conference speech to lay the groundwork for the forthcoming allied invasion of Afghanistan. Among his targets was the Taliban-controlled Afghan drugs trade which, he said, was not only funding the terrorists’ campaign, it was also the source of 90% of the heroin on British streets. Full news...
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August 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The rising number of civilian casualties and the leaking of thousands of confidential war papers by whistleblower website Wikileaks have prompted fresh calls to bring alleged war criminals in Afghanistan to book. Immediately after the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a 10 August report on civilian casualties, the UK-based Amnesty International said the Taliban must be prosecuted for war crimes. Full news...
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August 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: There is a “fair chance” that a NATO jet inadvertently killed five Afghan civilians during a shootout with Taliban fighters in a village in southern Afghanistan earlier this week, an American official said Saturday. Some details were still unclear, but a local Afghan official and two witnesses said that the civilians were killed Thursday afternoon when a NATO aircraft fired on a house... Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
e-Ariana - Opinion: Afghanistan Constitution Article 15 states; “The state shall be obligated to adopt necessary measures to protect and improve forests as well as the living environment.” Afghan Government has violated this article. In January of 2009 the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health stated in a press release that 3,000 people may die in Kabul in a one year time due to air pollution. Subsequently, a state of emergency was declared by the government. Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Worsening insurgent violence in many parts of the country is raising concern about Afghanistan’s ability to hold a fair parliamentary election in little more than a month, a crucial test of President Hamid Karzai’s ability to deliver security and a legitimate government. After last year’s troubled presidential election, both the government and its foreign supporters are under intense pressure to hold a credible vote for Parliament, scheduled for Sept. 18. Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NiemanWatchdog: The repressive and misogynistic forces the picture depicts are the very ones that were bolstered by U.S. policy in the early 1980s, and again now. The head of Jobs for Afghans proposes an answer to 'warlordism' and its medieval attitude toward women. There has been much discussion, as well as misunderstanding, of the Time magazine cover photo of the Afghan woman who had her nose cut off by the Taliban. Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: When U.S.-trained agents from an anticorruption task force raided the headquarters of the nation's largest "hawala" money-transfer business, they caught many people by surprise: the company's politically connected executives, the nation's top law-enforcement officer, even Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's largest gathering of clerics, who met to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban, has called for the revival of strict Islamic law as the country seeks ways to win militants away from a growing insurgency. About 350 of the Islamic clerics, or ulema, met for three days this week, the meeting ending with a declaration calling on President Hamid Karzai to enact sharia, or Islamic law... Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Villagers have held a protest over the deaths of three brothers allegedly killed in a raid by Nato-led forces in the eastern Afghan province of Wardak. They said those killed overnight in Sayed Abad district were innocent. Nato rejected the allegation, saying it had killed several suspected insurgents and detained a local Taliban commander. Full news...
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August 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha's story to convince us that the US military must stay in Afghanistan escapes me. Even Aisha has already left for America. Full news...
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August 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Times News World: Where Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might have hid lie a trillion-dollar treasure chest of gold, copper, cobalt and more than twenty other precious minerals. US experts expressed that this startling discovery could dramatically turn the financial tables of the American-created, nine-year-old battlefield. Full news...
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August 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pakistan Observer: While US private Bradley Manning under interrogation may be made into an scapegoat, the question is whether it was he who transferred over 92000 documents on to his computer and then passed it on to WikiLeak or was it Julian Assange who with the help of insiders in Pentagon managed to gain access to classified archives stored in a safe house? Full news...
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August 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Atlantic: As we fight an unwinnable war in an ungovernable country, the enemy simply ratchets up the evil by targeting more and more innocent civilians, especially women and children. HuffPo's headline misleadingly suggests that US policy is behind the yearly increase in civilian fatalities but the UN report actually notes that casualties caused by the US and UK fell by 30 percent and by 64 percent in aerial bombing in one year, which strikes me as a real achievement for McChrystal. Full news...
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August 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The Taliban's increasing use of homemade bombs and political assassinations has been responsible for a 31% increase in the number of civilians who have been killed or injured in fighting in Afghanistan this year, the United Nations said today. UN human rights workers recorded 1,271 civilians deaths over the period and 1,997 injuries. Full news...
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August 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dissident Voice: Time magazine must be experiencing a severe case of amnesia, judging by the cover of this week’s issue which asks, “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan .” At best, this effort by Time is irresponsible slick journalism; at worst, it is one of the most blatant pieces of pro-war propaganda seen in years. Full news...
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August 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBC News: A bomb is found tucked into a school typewriter. Insurgents dressed in military uniforms attack an education chief. School guards are tied up while the building is bombed to smithereens. Teachers and students at an all-girls high school are poisoned through the drinking water. Those are just a few of the hundreds of incidents involving schools that are detailed in the U.S. military logs from Afghanistan released by WikiLeaks in late July. Full news...
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