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May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: One man lives penniless in a field under a patchwork tent with baying dogs roaming outside. Another, wearing a suit jacket and tie, glides past his silver Mercedes as he welcomes guests into his plush Kabul villa. Full news...
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May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: On April 18th 2006, hundreds of people in the Takhar province of northern Afghanistan staged a demonstration to raise their voices against the brutalities of the war- and drug-lords whose presence has become a dominating factor in their homeland. Full news...
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May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: BOTTLES were thrown, insults traded and chairs knocked over in the bedlam. This was no bar-room brawl, however. It was the scene in the Afghan parliament on Sunday when a woman MP dared to stand up to a male colleague. Full news...
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May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Promises of work and security made Ghulam Hazara return to this western Afghan city from Iran two years ago. Now a lack of both is driving him back. Full news...
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May 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Times: The United States and its western allies have no interest in a stable and peaceful Afghanistan as the ravaged country continues to worsen under the Northern Alliance rule, who have big stakes in drug businesses and civil strife, says Kathy Gannon, a veteran journalist and Afghanistan expert. Full news...
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May 4, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: President Hamid Karzai should not appoint known human rights abusers and warlords as provincial police chiefs, Human Rights Watch said today. Full news...
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April 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: The strangers came in the middle of the night. They tied up the school caretakers with turbans and shoved them into a classroom. Then they broke the school windows, poured fuel everywhere and set the principal's office on fire. Full news...
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April 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, a UN humanitarian news and information service: Sitting in a small restaurant in a busy bazaar in Maimana, capital of Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province, Abdul Hadi, 36, worries out loud over the fate of his family in Kata Kala village, some 80 km away. Full news...
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April 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
South China Morning Post: After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, women were promised new freedoms. But now many are being forced into prostitution as a result of worsening poverty Full news...
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April 6, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, ARR No. 210: Hezb-e-Islami is back, green flag and all. The most radical and powerful of Afghanistan’s Islamic movements is an officially recognised political party which now claims to be one of the largest blocs in parliament. Full news...
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March 21, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): As Afghanistan's new school year officially begins tomorrow (Wednesday) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Rima Salah, has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children from high rates of child and maternal mortality, low levels of school enrolment and neglect of children's fundamental rights. Full news...
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March 6, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has voiced concern at the situation of women's rights in the country in 2005. Full news...
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February 26, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: But in some cases, the agencies' wasteful bureaucracies are also holding back efforts to rebuild this war ravaged country, according to Ashraf Ghani, who has written a report on international development and post-war reconstruction, sponsored by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Full news...
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February 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Girl students in the western Herat province grumble in spite of their enthusiasm they are not allowed by school administrations to do take part in sports and recreational activities. Full news...
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February 21, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mr. Shinwari says these decisions are based on Islamic law. But as a growing chorus of European and Western donor nations call on the government to reform and professionalize the judicial system - as required by the Constitution and the Afghanistan Compact signed in London on Feb. 1 - the chief justice says that Afghanistan will be governed by Islamic laws or tumble into violent civil conflict. Full news...
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February 8, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: 7 year old Samia has a shocking story. She is one of tens of thousands of Afghanistan's girls who fall victim of family violence in the male-chauvinistic society where fundamentalists promote and support dirty misogynistic customs. Full news...
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February 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph (UK): Some cabinet ministers in Afghanistan are deeply implicated in the drugs trade and could be diverting foreign aid into trafficking, the country's anti-narcotics minister said yesterday. Full news...
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January 26, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: According to her mother, she married a man 3 years ago but he was very cruel person and was torturing her on daily bases. Finally Gulbar run away to her mother’s house. The next day her husband came and asked her to return home otherwise he will kill her, she refused to go with him, when he found her alone in the house, throw petrol on her body, set her on fire and he himself escaped. Full news...
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July 1, 2002 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said. They told the local Pashtu service of the BBC at least 120 people had been either killed or wounded. Full news...
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