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  • April 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Malalai Joya: US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region
    The Harvard International Review: It is an open secret today that the US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region. All terrorist fundamentalist groups from Al-Qaeda to the Taliban and our warlords of the Northern Alliance were created, funded, and nourished by the CIA during the cold war. The green belt of extremism and Jihad concept, which was funded and implemented by the CIA through ISI of Pakistan, has caused all of the current problems, and the US still needs these groups to advance its long-term war agenda in the region.      Full news...

  • April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US military holds terror suspects in secret jails for weeks without charge
    The Associated Press: “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press.      Full news...

  • April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Poppies making a strong comeback in Afghanistan
    IWPR: After several years of attempting to earn a living by growing crops other than poppies, frustrated farmers in Kapisa province are once again producing the raw material for heroin. They say soaring drug prices, along with the government’s failure to fulfill the promises it made as part of its eradication program, left them no choice.      Full news...

  • April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    8 Afghans shot dead near Iran border
    PAN: Iran’s border police killed eight Afghans trying to cross the border into the neighbouring country near the Islam Qala dry port in western Herat province, an official said on Thursday. The Afghans were killed by Iranian border police guards when they attempted to enter Iran last Friday night, a police official, who did not want to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Poverty keeps women, girls from school in Bamyan
    PAN: The number of women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields, construction and other hard labour is increasing in central Bamyan province, with many having to give up school to contribute to the family’s finances. Zahra, 36, lives in Surkh, and says she has worked as a farmhand for the past eight years.      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Two women hung in Jowzjan province of Afghanistan
    Afghanistan Today (Translated by RAWA): General Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the police chief of Jowzjan, gave news suicide committed by two women, saying, “The first woman named Gul Bibi, wife of Abdul Ghafar of the Qorm Qila village of Mardian district, hung herself with a rope at seven in the morning at her home.” The second incident, he said, took place in the city of Jowzjan in the Chetgiri area...      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghans complain about NATO-led raid that killed 6
    McClatchy Newspapers: A night raid by NATO-led forces killed six civilians in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul, local officials said Tuesday, but a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said the dead were Taliban insurgents armed with AK-47 assault rifles. The disagreement adds to the debate surrounding night raids, which have become a centerpiece of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan...      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    ISAF vehicle kills woman in Kabul
    PAN: A woman was killed and another woman and a child were wounded when they were hit by a vehicle of foreign troops in Kabul on Wednesday, police said. The accident happened when a military vehicle belonging to NATO-led soldiers collided with a civilian car on the Darul Aman road in the limits of sixth police district, crime branch police chief, Col. Mohammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Landmines kill almost 52 civilians per month last Afghan year
    PAN: Almost an average of 52 civilians lost their lives per month last year due to landmine explosions in Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday. The number of civilian casualties caused by landmines decreased last year, compared to the previous year, Haider Raza, the head of Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA), told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • April 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Foreign soldiers kill civilian in Kabul: Residents
    PAN: Residents of a district in central Kabul province on Monday accused foreign troops of killing a shopkeeper and taking away his son during an overnight raid. The incident happened Sunday night in Chaar Asyab district of Kabul when NATO-led troops attacked the house of Yasin, a relative, Ghulam Rassoul, said.      Full news...



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