IRIN: Bonded labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) were children, with most under 14. Few are getting any education to allow them to develop skills needed to break out of work in the kilns. Full story ...
PAN: Hundreds of schoolchildren were poisoned in the Ismailkhel Mandozai district of southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in the Urzi area, where all the 600 students of a middle school were poisoned, education department spokesman Syed Musa Majrooh told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
PAN: Local officials in western Farah province said on Monday that there was no school in Bakwa district while militant threats had forced the closure of five schools in Gulistan town. There was only one school that Taliban fighters destroyed five years ago, depriving many girls and boys of education Bakwa, said Mohammad Ismail, the district’s administrative chief. Full story ...
Institute for Policy Studies: It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but support for the longest U.S. war is dropping further and faster than ever. The latest national U.S. poll, released on May 9, shows 66 percent of Americans are against the war in Afghanistan – with 40 percent “strongly opposed.” We can expect to hear the usual spin, claims that it’s a hard slog but Afghans are still better off and we have to finish what we started. Full story ...
The Associated Press: Taliban militants dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up after being caught trying to sneak through a checkpoint Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, killing five people, authorities said. Police at the checkpoint in Paktika province’s Yayakhil district became suspicious of the men and told them to stop, said provincial police chief Dawlit Khan Zadran. Full story ...
PAN: Hundreds of residents including tribal elders, influential and Ulama, urge the government to stop militiamen from harassing people in northern Kunduz province. The militia is a voluntary armed tribal force created by locals to ensure security for their communities. However, they are presently deployed as an armed force but with no official rank in the government. They are equipped and supported by the government and US forces to fight the rebels. Full story ...
Crienglish.com: Fourteen civilians were killed and six others injured as warplanes of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) raided the suspected Taliban hideouts in Badghis province 555 km northwest of capital Kabul on Monday, local officials said Tuesday. “The aircraft of NATO-led forces raided the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in Balamirghab district in the wee hours of Monday but it mistakenly struck residential houses as a result 14 civilians including women and children were martyred... Full story ...
Independent.ie: Motherhood is considered to be a highly demanding, if not rewarding task, wherever one lives in the world. But for many in developing countries, being a mother can mean a daily struggle against disease, malnutrition and poverty. The startling disparity of conditions is revealed today in a report in which Niger has been named as the worst place in the world to bear children. Full story ...
CNN: Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan killed at least 26 people in northern Afghanistan and rescue workers fear the toll may rise, officials said Monday. Eight hours of relentless rainfall that began Sunday led to the flooding in several districts of Sar-e-Pol province, said Faizullah Sadat, provincial director of Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA). Full story ...
PAN: An Afghan journalist with the state-run Iranian news agency was detained has been detained by intelligence operatives on the charge of spying for the neighbouring country, an official said on Sunday. A knowledgeable source, who wanted not to be named, revealed the Fars News Agency (FAN) reporter was caught while transferring secret documents to the Iranian Embassy in Kabul. Full story ...
Bay Area Indymedia: Replicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war’s end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They're part of America’s growing empire of bases. Status of forces (SOFA) agreements establish the framework under which US forces operate abroad. Full story ...
Salam Watandar (Translated by RAWA): In today’s session of the senate, the head and its members criticized the protest of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan against the 27th and 28th April, that was held the day before. Hundreds of SPA members condemned the perpetrators of the 27th and 28th April revolutions in their demonstration, and demanded the prosecution of the Jehadi leaders and commanders, members of the Khalq and Parcham parties and the group of Taliban. Full story ...
The Associated Press: Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents. The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such Full story ...
Khaama Press: Several protesters on Monday demonstrated against the war crimes which took place during 27/April/1978 after the Democractic Republic Party of Afghanistan toppled down the government of Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan and 28/April/1992 after the Mujahideen toppled down the Pro-Soviet government. Full story ...
IWPR: At the Balkh public hospital in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, 24-year-old Yasin was by the bedside of his father, Mahmud, who had been admitted with a head injury. His fellow villagers in Badghis province had beaten him up. “My father was admitted here eight days ago, and since then the doctors have only provided him with eight IV drips,” Yasin told an IWPR reporter Full story ...
OpEdNews: The history of Afghanistan is riddled with foreign invasions, intrigues and interventions. During the last three decades, Iran and Pakistan have played their intrigues and interferences to undermine the foundations of Afghanistan. Iran’s aspiration to become a regional power, to catch its old glory, and to make a powerful influence base in Afghanistan is not unseen... Full story ...
RFE/RL: A new Afghan youth group is making waves in Kabul with an unprecedented campaign against the country’s former warlords. Members of the Afghan Freedom-Loving Youth Group swept through the streets of Kabul this week, putting up hundreds of posters and spraying graffiti messages critical of the strongmen, many of whom still wield significant influence on the country’s political affairs. Full story ...
Socialist Alternative: In January 2012, a video published on websites such as Youtube revealed four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. On February 20, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan incinerated several Qur’ans, leading to weeks of protest that left six U.S. military personnel and 30 Afghans dead. Three weeks later, U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales went on an unprovoked killing sp Full story ...
Khaama Press: Chief of the High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption of Afghanistan disclosed the name of an Afghan cabinet minister who has been charged with corruption. Dr. Azizullah Lodeen while speaking among the Kabul University lecturers said Mohammad Ismail minister of water and energy is involved in stealing money and properties. Full story ...
The Huffington Post: Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us a glimpse into chronic anxieties among civilians throughout Afghanistan. Full story ...
BNO News: At least sixteen people were killed on Sunday as a result of severe flash floods in northern and eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Monday. As many as 800 houses are believed to have been destroyed. The flash floods occurred on Sunday and mostly affected the districts of Kushandi and Shulgara, located in the northern province of Balkh, where eleven and four people were killed respectively. Full story ...
The Nation: I remember once I had a meeting with Hamza Khan, an old Afghan refugee, residing somewhere at a refugee camp in Peshawar. He told me that he had been in Pakistan for the last twenty years. His son Shahzeb Gul was ten years old when the family had to migrate to Pakistan; now that ten years boy is a grownup man of thirty with a family of four children and their mother. Full story ...
IWPR: In a highly controversial move, Afghanistan’s education ministry has dealt with the complexities of the last four decades of turmoil and war by simply omitting the entire period from the new history textbooks it is issuing to schools. Officials argue that the decision to pass over contentious events of recent history is an attempt to heal rifts in Afghan society and avoid further strife. Full story ...
ABC News: Our leaders have been conning the Australian public for years about the realities of international efforts in Afghanistan. The small army of activists, writers, independent journalists, academics, historians and retired diggers and diplomats who for years have been exposing their untruths usually are ignored, dismissed or ridiculed, including by mainstream media. Full story ...
The Los Angeles Times: The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts. Full story ...
The Guardian: Opium farming will increase across Afghanistan in 2012, driven by insecurity, massive corruption and economic fears for the future, spreading to more areas than it has in the past four to five years, the United Nations has warned. Drugs help fund the Taliban insurgency, but Afghanistan’s elite is also earning huge amounts from the trade... Full story ...
PAN: More than 100 girl students were hospitalised, apparently poisoned, after drinking water at their school in northern Takhar province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the afternoon at a girl’s school in the Rostaq district, Mustafa Rassouli, the governor’s office acting spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
The Guardian: For months after the allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, there were no Taliban attacks in Kabul. Now, as the weekend’s gun, rocket and suicide attacks demonstrate, they are frequent and fatally effective. This is one measure of the progress of the war, more than 10 years on. There are many others. According to a devastating account from a senior US army officer, the Taliban now range freely across much of the country. Full story ...
AFP: Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province. Full story ...
The Guardian: “I am – how do you say it? – persona non grata,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis, as he sat sipping a coffee and eating a chocolate sundae in a shopping mall, just a subway stop from the Pentagon. The career soldier is now a black sheep at the giant defence department building where he still works. Full story ...
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