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September 18, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
wsws.org: Today’s elections in Afghanistan for the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of parliament, are a travesty of democracy. The poll further discredits the puppet regime of President Hamid Karzai, who was re-elected last year on the basis of widespread fraud. The election takes place under the shadow of the Obama administration’s military “surge,” which has increased the number of foreign troops in the country to more than 140,000. Full news...
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September 18, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. Full news...
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September 17, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is getting on everyone's nerves in the US and Afghanistan over the endemic corruption in his government. Despite promising a tougher anticorruption fight, Mr Karzai continues to protect officials from his inner circle and his family members by helping them hold on to ill-gotten wealth and transfer hundreds of millions of dollars every month outside the country. Full news...
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September 17, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Often characterised as valiant crusaders defying Afghanistan's chauvinistic culture, many female candidates standing in tomorrow's parliamentary elections may in fact be just the opposite: proxies doing a warlord's bidding. Women's rights campaigners in Kabul claim that the majority of a record number of female candidates in the vote – a contest widely expected to be marred by bloodshed and fraud – have little interest in advancing their own political agendas or promoting women's and human rights. Full news...
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September 17, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: THE United Nations has ordered 300 of its international staff out of Afghanistan and the British commander of foreign troops in the south of the country predicts mayhem as violence and corruption collide as 13 million Afghan voters attempt to elect a new national parliament today. Full news...
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September 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: On the streets of Kabul, it is never difficult to find people angry about the notorious level of corruption in the country. Like Haroon Yakobi, who owns a small photo shop. Asked if he will vote only for a candidate who will fight corruption, he says: "Yes, of course, all the people of Afghanistan should pay attention to the fact that our last five years have been in misery. Full news...
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September 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: The man who directed the onslaught, according to residents and human rights groups, was Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, an Islamist member of parliament’s lower house who’s close to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai. He’s running for re-election from Kabul, and analysts say he could be the next speaker of the lower house. Sayyaf is among a raft of former guerrilla chieftains and commanders implicated in war crimes who are likely to win re-election Saturday to the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga in polls that are expected to be marred by coercion, fraud and violence. Full news...
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September 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Monsters and Critics: Baraki Barak, Afghanistan - About 3,000 people including government officials and police were about to begin a prayer when a man shouted that he had an important message to deliver. The crowd had gathered Friday on Eid al-Fitr, a day of festivities that follows the fasting month of Ramadan, but instead they heard a message from the Taliban as the young man moved to the microphone. Full news...
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September 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Sala Khan Khel, 40 miles outside Kabul, looks like a rural paradise at harvest time. Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals. But the rural idyll hides conflict, deep poverty and growing environmental degradation. Full news...
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September 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: New corruption prosecutions have ground to a halt here as the result of a protracted dispute within the government over the limits of American-backed investigators who have pursued high-ranking Afghans, according to American and Afghan officials. The last arrest by corruption investigators was seven weeks ago, of a top official in President Karzai’s government... Full news...
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September 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has expressed concern over a report that some printing houses in Pakistan have been involved in “illegally publishing” ballot papers for the September 18 parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports. Full news...
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September 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Mirror: Claims that British soldiers smuggled heroin out of Afghanistan were being investigated by military police last night. Troops are said to have used Army planes to sneak shipments out of the country after buying from dealers. Officials said they were aware of “unsubstantiated” allegations and an inquiry was focusing on British and Canadian personnel at Camp Bastion and Kandahar airports. Full news...
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September 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Telegraph: Afghan election officials have been offered as much as $500,000 (£380,000) to falsify returns in the forthcoming parliamentary election by supporters of President Hamid Karzai, independent observers have said. Fraud in Saturday’s election is expected to be at least as widespread as it was during last year's presidential election. Full news...
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September 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Asia Times: United States President Barack Obama has pledged to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011, and as a part of the initial outlines of this exit strategy the Taliban are for the first time in serious negotiations with the US. The Pakistan military and Saudi Arabia are acting as go-betweens to facilitate the talks, a top Pakistani security official directly involved in the negotiation process has told Asia Times Online. Full news...
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September 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Afghan intelligence officers beat back Afghan police officers who mobbed the only branch of Kabul Bank open in the capital on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to draw money before it closed for Eid al-Fitr, the most important festival of the year in Islamic countries. Eid marks the end of a month of Ramadan fasting and most Afghans spend a small fortune on food and presents for the holiday. Full news...
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September 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians. Full news...
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September 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: In the ornate Shahista restaurant in Dubai, Afghans in traditional robes break the Ramadan fast with fare from their homeland, including “zaban” – or sheep’s tongue. Yet the fleet of tinted and customised Mercedes parked outside the restaurant shows that the diners are not Afghan labourers who toil on the United Arab Emirates’ construction sites but scions of their country’s elite. Full news...
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September 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai made nearly USD1 million on a Dubai property deal financed with money from Kabul Bank, according to a person familiar with the transaction and a property sales registry. It was not previously known that the president’s brother, Mahmoud Karzai, had benefited financially from Dubai real estate transactions involving Afghanistan's biggest but now deeply troubled bank. Full news...
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September 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Aljazeera: At least 14 people have been killed in two U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, according to a provincial statement. In the first airstrike, two civilians and six militants have been killed in Sangin district in the east of the province, the provincial governor's office said in the statement on Saturday. Full news...
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September 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: About 15 percent of planned polling stations for this month's Afghan parliamentary election will not open because of poor security, officials said on Tuesday, with fears of attacks rising in insurgency strongholds in the east. The September 18 parliamentary election is seen as a litmus test for stability in Afghanistan ahead of a war strategy review to be conducted by the White House in December. Full news...
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September 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sunday Times: At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan’s capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to an investigation by London’s Sunday Times. The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans involved in reconstruction. The money often comes in the form of aid from foreign donors. Full news...
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September 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: THE government of President Hamid Karzai may be awash in corruption, venality and graft, but if you walk the tattered halls of the ministries here, it is remarkably easy to find an honest man. One of them is Fazel Ahmad Faqiryar, who last month took the politically risky course of trying to prosecute senior members of Mr. Karzai’s government. Full news...
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September 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A Japanese freelance journalist released at the weekend after five months’ captivity in Afghanistan said in an online posting Monday that his kidnappers were not Taliban but corrupt Afghan soldiers. Kosuke Tsuneoka, 41, who had been missing in northern Afghanistan since April, has been under the protection of the Japanese embassy since Saturday, and was Monday travelling back to Japan via Dubai. Full news...
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September 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Sayed Hamid Noori, an anchor for state network Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was stabbed repeatedly near his home late on Sunday. Possible motives and identity of the killer remain unclear. Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. At least 14 have been killed because of their work since the Taliban were ousted in 2001... Full news...
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September 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: During Ramadan, Dowlat Hussain wakes before the sun to perform his morning prayers, but there is nothing to eat for Sahari, he says, as “we live in a cave like animals”. Hussain and his family, like hundreds of others too poor to build or rent their own home, live in the honeycomb network of caves that surround the two destroyed Buddha statues in central Bamyan province. Full news...
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September 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Der Spigel: After the deadly German-ordered air strike in Kunduz on Sept. 4, 2009, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised a full investigation. One year on, questions about the bombing in Afghanistan are still unanswered and many of the details remain classified. Full news...
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September 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sify News: The US is heading for a catastrophic rout in Afghanistan like in Iraq and should hurry to leave these countries 'or for that matter, the entire Asian continent' before its defeat becomes complete, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday. 'America is heading for a defeat in Afghanistan. Before it is humiliated by its defeat becoming complete... Full news...
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September 4, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ahlul Bayt News Agency: A Shia man named Naurooz has been beheaded by Taliban in Sai Ganj area of Ghazni. He was from Nahoor District of Ghazni, and on the way for business travel to Ghazni city. This is not the first incident in this year. About a month ago, 10 Hazara Shia from Jaghori district of Ghazni were beheaded by Taliban. Full news...
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September 3, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle's music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. "Where is your uncle?" one of the armed men demanded of the 14-year-old boy. "Tell him to shut down this shop. If he doesn't, we will blow it up." Full news...
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September 2, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO air strike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Karzai strongly condemned the incident in his statement, confirming earlier reports of an air strike that killed election workers in Takhar province. Full news...
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