GlobalPost: Those who think that Afghanistan’s problems began and ended with the Taliban should take a look at a recent declaration by the country’s Council of Religious Scholars, known here as the Ulema Shura. The Shura meets with President Hamid Karzai on a bi-weekly basis to advise him on religious matters. At the latest session, which took place on Thursday morning, just before Karzai flew off to Italy for the country’s 150th birthday party, the esteemed mullahs presented the president with a statement... Full story ...
The New York Times: WITHIN a 40-minute drive of this city stands the 11th-century Bost Arch. A former gateway to Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, the arch is today a national historic site; it even appears on the 100-Afghani note. The arch withstood centuries of invasions, but today it’s a crumbling mess of inept supports and clumsy renovations. Full story ...
... has acquired recently-shot video evidence of a man being publicly whipped by a judge as a punishment for drinking alcohol. The lashing was carried out inside a courtroom in Jalalabad, the capital of nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. Such punishments are legal under the Afghan constitution but are rarely implemented.... Full story ...
Wakht News Agency: United Nation High Commission for Refugees UNHCR had expressed concern over the internally displaced people in Afghanistan according to the reports provided by this office and the World Bank in Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces. Research said unemployment, lack of shelter and poverty were the main challenges faced by the internally displaced individuals... Full story ...
PAN: UNICEF Representative Peter Crowley on Wednesday said Afghanistan continued to be plagued by conflict and remained one of the world’s most dangerous places for children. There is intensified fighting and increased suffering now at the start of the new “fighting season” in Afghanistan, with renewed hardship for children, Crowley said in a statement on International Children’s Day (June 1). Full story ...
PAN: A teenager girl alleged on Sunday she was raped by her neighbour in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul. She was sexually assaulted two days ago in the Qazi Kinti village on the outskirts of Sar-i-Pul, Shakiba told Pajhwok Afghan News. “My mother took my sister to Kabul for treatment and my father also went to work. My other sister went to school. My neighbour Mirwais entered my house,” she said. Full story ...
Mail Online: Fourteen women and children have been killed after Nato warplanes bombed their homes in south-west Afghanistan. Six others were wounded in the attack, according to local reports, after the airstrike in Nawzad district, in the country’s volatile Helmand province. Two women, five girls and seven boys were among the dead, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governmen Full story ...
The Telegraph: The brochures offering pampered life in state-of-the-art apartments could be selling dream properties in any Western capital. And the ornate towers and palm trees shown in artists’ impressions would look at home in the boulevards of a Gulf emirate. However the chic apartments they advertise will not be built in London, Dubai or New York, but in one of the world’s poorest countries, wracked by a violent insurgency. Full story ...
PAN: Eight schools for girls have been closed in the central province of Logar due to threats from Taliban, an official said on Saturday. Two schools were closed in provincial capital, Pul-i-Alam, and six others in Baraki Barak district, Education Director Abdul Matin Jafar told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
PAN: As many as 112 people were killed in an airstrike by NATO-led troops in the remote eastern province of Nuristan, a senior official said on Saturday. Twenty-two policemen, 20, civilians and 70 Taliban fighters were among the dead, Governor Jamaluddin Badr told Pajhwok Afghan News, quoting a probe into the incidents. Full story ...
The Nation: In average, 10 incidents of armed conflicts and 39 consequent deaths were reported in three main South Asian states - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan - on every day of last month. Every fourth victim of violence was a civilian. Afghanistan continued to be worst hit state by violence in the region as about half of the incidents as well as resultant deaths were reported in the country. Full story ...
PAN: NATO-led troops shot dead three civilians in central Maidan Wardak province, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The deaths took place in Lala Khel area of the province, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
AFP: Militants cut off the nose and ears of an Afghan civil servant, then shot him dead near the capital apparently because he worked for the government, police said Wednesday. Omid, a 30-year-old who like many Afghans went by only one name, was kidnapped in Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Kabul, on Tuesday. Full story ...
Reuters: Taliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a girls’ school near the Afghan capital after he ignored warnings to stop teaching girls, government officials have said. Khan Mohammad, the head of the Porak girls’ school in Logar province, was shot dead near his home on Tuesday, said Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar governor. Full story ...
The National: The checkpoints on Kabul’s streets and concrete barricades around its key buildings are a reminder of the war Afghanistan has been in since 2001. But beneath some of its bridges are signs of another war - the battle against HIV. During a recent afternoon, aid workers weaved in and out among the hundreds of drug addicts who gather daily under a bridge in the Pul-e Sought-a neighbourhood of the city to smoke and inject heroin. Full story ...
PAN: Some policemen are collecting the opium tax from farmers while others are smuggling the drug in Deh Raud district of central Uruzgan province, residents alleged on Monday. Checkpoint commanders charge the tax from opium growers in different areas of the district, a member of Deh Raud District Council told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. Full story ...
PAN: In violation of an agreement with Kabul, Iran continues to execute the Afghan refugees on death row in the neighbouring country, an official alleged on Sunday. Two more Afghans were executed in Sistan city of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan, on May 7, the official told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. Full story ...
Philly.com: My Thursday column was about the most powerful man in Kandahar, President Hamid Karzai’s brother Ahmed Wali Karzai. I promised to write more of my interview with AWK, as he’s called, because this one powerbroker personifies so many of the contradictions that are bedeviling U.S. and NATO forces in Aghanistan. Full story ...
Spiegel Online: Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has released new and explosive details about a violent altercation between demonstrators and German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday that left 12 dead and dozens wounded, including two German soldiers. In a statement posted on its website Friday morning, the military contradicted its earlier claims and admitted that German soldier had deliberately fired upon the demonstrators. Full story ...
BBC News: During the inquest into the murders of five British soldiers by a rogue Afghan policeman, a disturbing picture emerged of the way the Afghan National Police (ANP) operated with British troops. Among the British soldiers’ roles was to train and mentor many of the men, but it became clear from the outset of the inquest that they were shown little respect. Full story ...
PAN: Hundreds of residents of Charkh district in central Logar province on Friday protested against NATO-led forces for arresting two sons of a prayer leader. Foreign troops on Thursday night detained the two sons of Maulvi Sahibzada, prayer leader of the district’s main mosque, in the Bazar area during an operation. Full story ...
PAN: Foreign troops handed over to family the body of a 25-year-old man with his hand cut off six days after he was arrested on the charge of “links” with Taliban militants in central Logar province, officials said on Friday. Amir Mohammad, the victim, had been arrested by foreign troops during an operation six days ago in Sheikhi village of Charkh district for his alleged ties with the Taliban. Full story ...
CounterPunch: Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author, and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga and was a parliamentary member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, until she was expelled for denouncing other members as warlords and war criminals. She has been a vocal critic of both the US/NATO occupation and the Karzai government, as well as the Taliban Full story ...
BBC News: At least 35 construction workers have been shot dead and 20 injured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, an official says. Eight insurgents were also killed as guards returned fire during Wednesday night’s ambush, a Paktia provincial spokesman told the BBC. The attack took place in a mountainous district on the highway linking Paktia and Khost provinces. Full story ...
PAN: Five people were injured on a second day of a protest demonstration against foreign troops for what they said killing four civilians in an airstrike in northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday, more than a dozen people were killed and 85 others wounded when police opened fire at hundreds of protestors in Taloqan, the provincial capital, after a NATO airsrike killed four civilians... Full story ...
The Telegraph: The execution of Bibi Sanubar prompted revulsion inside Afghanistan and abroad after she was imprisoned, given 200 lashes before a crowd and then shot three times in the head. Her death in an insurgent-controlled district of the north-west fed fears of a possible return to Taliban-era capital punishment if concessions were made in any peace settlement with the militants. Full story ...
BBC News: At least 12 people have been killed in northern Afghanistan during a protest against a Nato-led raid, hospital sources have told the BBC. The clashes with security forces in the city of Taloqan left 80 others injured. Some 2,000 demonstrators, some of them armed, took part. They looted shops and tried to attack a German army base. Four people, two of them women, were killed in the Nato-l Full story ...
Reuters: Foreign troops killed an Afghan child and wounded four others when responding to insurgent fire in volatile eastern Kunar province, the provincial Governor said on Monday, the third accidental killing of young civilians in less than a week. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it had killed "four armed individuals"... Full story ...
The Telegraph: Police seized a nine-year-old and three others aged between 12 and 14 as they tried to cross into eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Afghan intelligence agency said the boy is believed to be the youngest suicide bomber ever intercepted, though children as young as five have been used to plant bombs in Helmand. Full story ...
Xinhua: “I have no choice but to sell shopping bags to support our family. My elder brother also works on street because our father is disabled,” an Afghan child who introduced himself as Shah Jan told Xinhua on Sunday. Dressed in grubby clothes and shouting up “shopping bags, shopping bags” in a crowded downtown bazaar in the Afghan capital Kabul to attract buyers, the poor Shah Jan, 7... Full story ...
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