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August 7, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A 15-year-old girl, who was in eighth grade, was allegedly shot dead by her brother after attending the birthday party of a friend, local officials said Sunday. Badakhshan police said the mother and brother of Chamman Gul were both arrested immediately after the incident. Full news...
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August 6, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: After 9/11, George Bush and Tony Blair immediately attacked Afghanistan under the excuse of the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden to the US. Additionally, the Taliban lackeys’ expiration date had been reached and the US planned to take its odious games forward through its Jehadi and technocrat creations, who had been under training and education in CIA schools for years. Full news...
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August 2, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The Taliban militants have publicly executed a 19-year-old girl in northern Sar-e-Pul province on charges of abandoning her family due to a domestic issue. According to local officials, the girl, identified as Azada, was first tried in a desert court and was then shot dead by her brother and Taliban militants. Full news...
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August 1, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA Dari (Translated by RAWA): More than half the girls in Afghanistan are married before the age of 19, about 40 percent are married at an age between 10 to 13 years, 32 percent at age 14, and 27 percent at age 15. These are the findings of the UNFPA which were published in a report titled “Invest in Teenage Girls for a More Just, Stable and Peaceful World” on the World Population Day. Full news...
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July 31, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: A group of the Taliban militants have reportedly gang raped a woman in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, a local security official has claimed. The official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the incident took place four days ago in Balo Jan village in Nahr-e-Saraj district. Full news...
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July 29, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Police in Ghor province on Friday reported that security forces have arrested a 60-year-old man for allegedly marrying a six-year-old girl, whose family claims she was abducted by the man. The man, named Mohammad Karim, has claimed that the girl was offered to him as a gift by her father while he was teaching her. Full news...
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July 28, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: A 22-year-old woman was shot dead dead by unknown gunmen in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan for having relations with a man over the telephone. The woman has been identified as Gul Jan and has allegedly been killed by the family of her husband in Pashtunkot district. Full news...
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July 27, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA Dari (Translated by RAWA): According to official statistics of the Afghan government, out of 7.2 million Afghans who have jobs, only 19 percent have job security, leaving 81 percent of them without job security. The statistics show that more than 26 percent of the youth qualified for work are unemployed and 400,000-500,000 qualified Afghans enter the job market every year. Full news...
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July 25, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News Centre: In the first six months of this year, 5,166 civilians were either killed or maimed in Afghanistan, a half-year record since counting began in 2009, a United Nations report published today shows. Between January and June this year, the human rights team of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented 1,601 civilian deaths and 3,565 injured civilians... Full news...
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July 23, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: At least 80 people were killed and 231 injured when a huge blast rocked a mass demonstration in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Interior Ministry has announced. The attack was claimed by terrorist group Islamic State. The numbers were confirmed to Afghan TOLOnews network and Pajhwok agency, as well as to Reuters. Full news...
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July 19, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: On July 13, 2016, the people of Rostaq district of Takhar province protested against the crimes and savagery of warlords under the leadership of Pirum Qul (supported by Abdul Rashid Dostum) once more. Pirum Qul’s gunmen opened fire on the peaceful protest and injured a number of people, but the people are fed up and have sworn to continue their struggle against the current situation. Full news...
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July 18, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Nearly four children were killed and three others wounded after a rocket tip exploded while they were playing with in Baghlan province, local officials said Sunday. The incident took place in the capital city of Baghlan, Pul-e-Khumri on Saturday while children were playing with the rocket. Full news...
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July 17, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A Pregnant 14-year-old girl, Zahra, who was set alight by her husband's family, has died in Isteqlal Hospital, Kabul. The incident in Ghor followed after Zahra’s father got a new wife two years ago. At the time, he gave his daughter to a member of his new spouse’s family in order to settle the matter. Full news...
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July 14, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Documents uncovered by Rahmatullah Nabil, former chief of Afghan Spy Agency—the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – shows that the money provided by the U.S government to the Pakistani military for fighting terrorism is in fact spent by Pakistan’s Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) for promoting and supporting terrorism. Full news...
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July 13, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press (Translated by RAWA): A man in Kabul beat his sister severely and then set her on fire because her fianc? had not given her enough money during the Eid celebrations. The girl, who used the fake name Humaira, told the media that her fianc? had given her some money before Eid and when her brother found out about the small amount of money he had given her, he first beat her, then poured petrol on her and set her on fire. Full news...
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July 12, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A study by TOLOnews reveals that the High Peace Council (HPC) spends more than 530,000 USD per month on the salaries of its employees. The highest salary in this organization is 18,000 USD. The report also reveals a number of rifts within the HPC leadership, saying that some members of the council have not attended official meetings for a long time. Full news...
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July 11, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: At least six people were wounded after an explosive device went off inside a classroom in a school located in the southeastern Khost province of Afghanistan. According to the local education officials, at least five students and a teacher were wounded in the blast. Full news...
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July 8, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: The long delayed Iraq Inquiry Committee Chilcot report took seven years to complete, filled 12 volumes, yet excluded what’s most important – declaring the 2003 Iraq war illegal, flagrantly violating international law, destroying the cradle of civilization, raping it for control and profit, and demanding accountability for those responsible. Full news...
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July 6, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: During the long, sorry history of U.S. construction projects in war-torn Afghanistan, Congress has showered tens of billions of dollars on a broad range of projects to assist the beleaguered population, upgrade health care facilities and try to rebuild the country’s devastated economy. Full news...
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July 5, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Human rights organisations and local officials say that they are powerless to act against a tradition in a west-central Afghan province that means women are being sold into marriage in return for cows and sheep. Ghor, with a population of nearly 300,000, is one of Afghanistan’s most underdeveloped provinces. Some remote areas are ruled by armed groups and entirely out of government control. Full news...
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July 2, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: The Obama administration released a report Friday detailing the number of civilian deaths from US counterterrorism strikes in countries other than its three primary “areas of active hostilities,” namely Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Most of these fatalities came about as a result of the controversial drones program, initiated under President George W. Bush but expanded under President Obama. Full news...
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July 1, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Take Sakina. Daily abuse and violence at the hands of her mother- and sisters-in-law nearly destroyed her marriage. After three years of living in their midst, she and her husband Ekram are now living separately in a rented house. Sakina says trouble started immediately after her wedding. “My mother-in-law misbehaved with me from the start. She and my sisters-in-law treated me like I was a servant. They would order me around, tell me when to sit, when to stand; shout at me at every meal, ‘there’s less salt’, or they’d say there was too much salt,” she recalls. Full news...
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June 28, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: The Afghan government says it will punish police officers involved in the institutionalised sexual abuse of children after an AFP report found the Taliban are exploiting the practice of paedophilic “bacha bazi” - literally “boy play” - to launch insider attacks. Militants in Uruzgan province have killed hundreds of police after turning their child sex slaves against them, exploiting a centuries-old practice in Afghanistan that observers call one of the most egregious violations of human rights in the country. Full news...
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June 23, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: On a bright day in downtown Kabul, Jagtar Singh Laghmani was in his traditional herb shop when a man turned up, drew a knife and told him to convert to Islam or he would cut his throat. Only bystanders and other shopkeepers saved his life. The incident earlier this month was the latest attack on a dwindling community of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan, a deeply conservative Muslim country struggling with growing insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and economic challenges. Full news...
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June 22, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Hundreds of women are dying in childbirth in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika each year due to a severe lack of antenatal and neonatal care, an IWPR investigation can reveal. There is only one female doctor in the entire province, and conservative traditions mean that most pregnant women cannot seek help from male health care professionals. Full news...
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June 21, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Syria’s refugee crisis dominates the headlines, but the crisis of Afghan refugees is significant—and has the potential to undermine the future of a country in which the U.S. has invested so much. Here are four things about a crisis that gets relatively little attention in the West. Full news...
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June 20, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Reports from Pakistan indicate that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa federal government in Pakistan has allocated Rs300 million Pakistani rupees (over 2.8 million USD) to a madrassa known as the University of Jihad. The madrassa has top Afghan Taliban leaders among its graduates, including the group’s supreme leader Mullah Omar, who was announced dead in July last year. Full news...
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June 19, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Up to 600 cases of violence against the women have been reported in the country over the last three months, the Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWa) announced on Sunday. The Ministry called on president Ashraf Ghani and his CEO Abdullah Abdullah to take action against the growing trend. MoWa also insisted on the implementation of justice after Aziz Gul was brutally murdered by armed men after being accused of escaping from home. Full news...
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June 16, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Locals in the southern province of Khost have complained that powerful men are exploiting their connections to routinely siphon off aid intended for needy women. Many NGOs in Afghanistan focus on small-scale farming, sewing or food production schemes intended to help women who often are their families’ sole breadwinners. But corruption and a lack of oversight has meant that items to set women up in their own businesses are easily diverted. Full news...
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June 15, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Police in the western province of Ghor have said that local armed men in Feroz Koh city of the province have allegedly killed a woman on charges of escaping from home. The incident happened on Monday after the armed men allegedly took the victim from her house and shot her. Full news...
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