PAN: People in Pul-i-Khumri, a city in northern Baghlan province, say that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has not rebuilt a school it destroyed in an operation against the Taliban. The school, located in the Ahmadzai village of the Dand-e-Ghori district of the city, was being used as a base for insurgents. It was destroyed almost eight months ago under heavy fire from ISAF. Full story ...
IWPR: A local policing venture in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa province is faltering as men leave the force because their wages have been cut. The men are part of the Afghan Local Police, originally village militias that have been brought under a centralised command structure since last year. They remain distinct from the regular Afghan National Police, ANP. Full story ...
The Washington Post: They die in assaults on lonely mountain checkpoints and in group beheadings captured on hand-held video cameras. They are engulfed by flaming car bombs and are shot at point-blank range by men who often dress up in the same plain gray uniform as theirs. Full story ...
IWPR: Khadija sat by the grave of her only son Sayid, crying bitterly as her her husband attempted to comfort her. “A month ago, my son was coming out of school and crossing the road when a police Ranger vehicle hit and killed him, although the traffic light was red and vehicles were supposed to stop,” said the bereaved father, who lives in Herat in western Afghanistan. Full story ...
BBC News: The US government has wasted 30bn USD (18bn Pounds) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission. The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-reliance on contractors, poor planning and fraud for the waste. It had evidence of lax accountability and inadequate competition, it said. Full story ...
The Gulf Today: Six Afghan civilians from the same family were killed by a coalition air strike in the insurgent-hit east of the country, local officials said on Friday. A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said he could not confirm civilians were killed but that several insurgents were among the dead in the operation... Full story ...
Xinhua: Likewise other war-torn countries, the poverty and child labor are common in the war-battered Afghanistan; however, using children as the lethal suicide bombers is a new unimaginable phenomenon that tramples the right of teens in this part of the world. Virtually, in the modern world it is hard to believe that youngsters can be recruited and used as human bombs against humanity... Full story ...
The Age: The United States government believes Australia’s strongest local partner in Afghanistan, who has received direct payments from Canberra, is involved in the narcotics trade that fuels the insurgency. Until last year, the Australian government paid Matiullah Khan for his armed men to work with Australian special forces. Full story ...
The Telegraph: Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was among at least 22 killed, mostly civilians, during a two-pronged militant attack on government buildings in Uruzgan province last month. An independent investigation has now found he appeared to have been shot dead by American weapons after the attackers were already dead. Full story ...
Daily Pioneer: The Pakistani spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), with the help of Taliban, has revived the Al-Huda outfit of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar to target Indians in Afghanistan. As many as 350 persons have been trained so far particularly to target Indian business interests and development works being executed in the war-torn country. Full story ...
Reuters: An Afghan policeman shot dead taxi driver Mohammad Jawid Amiri six month ago, for no apparent reason. According to a Kabul police official, the shooting was an accident, and the offending policeman is now behind bars. That’s news to the family of 27-year-old Amiri. They say the only contact with the policeman they had since the shooting was when his family offered a sheep and three bags each of rice and flour as compensation... Full story ...
Green Left Weekly: On August 19, a Taliban suicide squad attacked the Kabul offices of the British Council, a government-funded institution that “promotes educational and cultural relations” between Britain and other countries. The August 20 Guardian said at least 12 people were killed, including a New Zealand SAS soldier and three “security contractors” working for multinational security outfit G4S. Full story ...
PAN: Residents of southern Ghazni province protested on Saturday against the killing of four civilians during a nighttime operation by international troops. NATO-led troops killed the civilians during the offensive in the Ghonday area of Gilan district late on Thursday night, resident Zainullah told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
CNN: Under the cover of darkness, a 9-year-old girl and her mother ran from their stone and mud home on the outskirts of Kabul. They feared the wrath of her stepfather. “My father was beating me and my mother,” said the girl, who to protect her identity will be referred to as simply Zarina. “He would insult my mother and sometimes wouldn't bring us food.” Full story ...
TOLOnews.com: Abdul Zaher Qadir, a lawmaker representing nangarhar in the House of Representatives, has been accused of drug trafficking, a spokesman for counternarcotics department said on Saturday. The counternarcotics department has called on Abdul Zaher Qadir, who also leads the coalition to support law, to answer some questions. Full story ...
The New York Times: A series of attacks by insurgents in recent days killed numerous civilians, but for the most part failed against military targets. As many as 24 civilians were killed and eight wounded on Thursday morning when two mines planted on a road in western Herat Province exploded, Afghan officials said. Full story ...
AllGov.com: Common sense would dictate that a country that’s spent 10 years fighting two different wars would at least keep track of the fiscal sacrifice that’s been made. But the truth is that Uncle Sam really can’t say for sure how deep it’s had to dig to finance the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. Full story ...
BBC News: At least 22 people have been killed and many wounded when a roadside bomb hit a crowded minibus in the Afghan province of Herat, officials say. Officials said the bus was full and women and children were among the casualties. It was travelling from Obe district to the provincial capital, which recently passed to the control of Afghan forces. Full story ...
The Associated Press: After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates 360 million USD in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both. Full story ...
The Frontier Post: A clash between Taliban and foreign forces and a rocket attack left 16 civilians wounded last night in eastern Kunar province, officials said Tuesday. Taliban attacked a base of combined force in Ghondi village of Narang district, sparking a clash, Said Fazlullah Wahidi, governor of Kunar province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). He said 12 civilians were wounded in exchange of fire. Full story ...
PAN: Afghanistan joined the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but disabled people claim there has been no positive change in their lives. The disabled want work opportunities, vocational training, and a higher monthly salary from the government, saying 650 afghanis a month could not solve their problems. Full story ...
VOA: As the tides of war turn against them in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as government and ISAF forces drive deep into territory they once controlled, the Taliban are increasingly targeting children as both victims and weapons of war. The Taliban, never great proponents of education, have a long history of attacking schools and students, particularly girls. Full story ...
Xinhua: Five civilians were killed Saturday morning when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, 555 km south of capital city of Kabul, a spokesman for the provincial government said. “A civilian mini-bus touched off a roadside bomb at around 10: 00 a.m. local time Saturday in Nahri Sarraj district triggering a powerful blast that left five civilians dead,” Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua. Full story ...
Postmedia News: Just off embassy row in the centre of Kabul is a neighbourhood called Sherpur. It’s also spelled Sher Poor, but that’s simply an irony. Because, aside from the streets, which in some places rival rutted mountain passes, there’s nothing poor about Sherpur. Behind the stone and concrete walls that frame Sherpur’s neighbourhood blocks are marbled villas and man Full story ...
PAN: A 27-year-old woman reportedly committed self-immolation due to a family dispute in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, said Col. Mohammad Jan Abed, the deputy police chief. He linked the suicide attempt to domestic violence. A sister-in-law and mother-in-law of Fazala, the victim, have been arrested for investigation, he said. Full story ...
PAN: Drought has forced more than 20,000 people to walk for hours to fetch drinking water in one district of the central province of Bamyan, residents said on Tuesday. All the nearby water sources are dry. Sufi Rafi, 75, a resident of the Saighan district, told Pajhwok Afghan News: “We have not seen such a drought in the last six decades.” Full story ...
IRIN: Ongoing drought in northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan is likely to push 1.5-2 million more people into food insecurity this autumn, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). This is in addition to the seven million country-wide already facing food shortages. Full story ...
The Age: Australia’s most vital local ally in Afghanistan, controversial warlord Matiullah Khan, has become chief of police in Oruzgan province, after years of receiving money for his fighters to work alongside Australian special forces. Matiullah Khan and the local governor were targeted last month in one of the most serious Taliban attacks this year... Full story ...
AFP: Around 200 Afghans burned tyres and blocked key roads near the presidential palace on Tuesday in angry protests after at least three people were killed over a land dispute. The unrest flared just southeast of the Afghan capital Kabul when members of the Kuchi nomadic tribe clashed with guards working for a housing project linked to the family of lawmaker Qais Hasan. Full story ...
PAN: Foreign troops have allegedly been detaining and harassing civilians after 31 US Special Force members were killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province. Naimatullah, a resident of the Joyee Zarin area, told Pajhwok Afghan News US forces had besieged the Tangi Valley and have been searching people’s houses. Full story ...
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