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June 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan is making progress weeding out children from its police forces but is only starting to tackle persistent allegations of sexual abuse and may still have minors serving informally, UN officials said Tuesday. Peter Wittig, Germany’s ambassador to the United Nations and head of a mission to Afghanistan looking at protection of children in war, also said... Full news...
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June 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A family member of two lawmakers has been arrested by counternarcotics police with 52.7 kilograms of opium in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. Hedayatullah, the brother of Mariam Kufi and Fauzia Kufi, two female parliamentarians from the northeastern province, was arrested along with three others companions on Monday for allegedly carrying the opium in a car... Full news...
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June 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Radio Cadena Agramonte: The war in Afghanistan costs US taxpayers two billion dollars a week, according to calculations made by the Department of Defense Monday. The information appeared in the digital edition of The New York Times, on a study of the US government to cut its military presence in Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Globe and Mail: Smoke billows above coils of razor wire after an earth-shaking explosion kills one of Afghanistan’s most powerful generals. The next day, a young officer with a neatly trimmed beard accepts a new job during a brief ceremony in the wood-panelled office of a southern governor. A strongman dies and another rises. The bloody politics of Afghanistan travelled full circle with the... Full news...
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June 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: A new report warns that billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers’ money may be wasted because of the inability of Iraq and Afghanistan to keep American-financed projects running. The report released Friday by the Commission on Wartime Contracting comes as the Obama administration is poised to withdraw militarily from Iraq by the end of the year and to begin its drawdown in Afghanistan this summer. Full news...
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June 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
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 news...
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May 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
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 news...
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May 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
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 news...
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May 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
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 news...
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May 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
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 news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Hundreds of millions of dollars lost to fraud at Afghanistan’s biggest bank could have been saved if foreign consultants hired by the US government had not ignored obvious signs of trouble, a damning report says. A US government watchdog finds highly-paid western contractors working in the Afghan Central Bank failed to raise the alarm even after they received death threats when they tried to audit Kabul Bank. Full news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Armed men raped a 12-year old girl in a village in Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Her family members say six of these men were wearing police uniforms. The local Women’s Affairs office in Takhar confirmed the incident and the police of the province say they are searching for the criminals. Full news...
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May 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The charity has warned that unless the international community acts immediately the country will not be secure enough to hand over to Afghan forces in 2014. The report, titled No Time to Lose, claims Nato is not doing enough to prevent abuses by Afghan police and “time is running out” for change. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
EconomyWatch.com: Iraq and Afghanistan sit near the top of a list of the world’s most corrupt nations despite years of occupation by Anglo-American forces and more than 1 trillion USD of US taxpayers’ money having been spent on the two nations since 2001. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) from the Berlin-based watchdog rated Somalia... Full news...
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April 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian, December 13, 2003: It was meant to be a rare success story. According to the Afghan minister of culture, the small mound of soft yellow earth at Bazy-Kheil, 20 miles east of Kabul, was one of the country's few protected archaeological sites. But as Mohammed Zakir, one of Afghanistan’s five archaeologists, puffed to the top, he saw something was badly wrong. Full news...
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April 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: The great escape from Sarposa prison began with a knocking beneath the floor. A 25-year-old Afghan recounted in a telephone interview Wednesday how three inmates at the prison in the southern city of Kandahar were expecting the knock. When it came about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, they knew what to do. They knocked back. Full news...
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April 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank Abdul Qadir Fitrat on Wednesday named some of Kabul Bank shareholders who were allegedly involved in misusing clients’ deposits. Despite risks, the stakeholders were named to resolve the crisis, Fitrat told the Wolesi Jirga -- the lower house of the Parliament, which summoned him to explain the story of Afghanistan’s largest private bank. Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Naqibullah was about 14 years old when U.S. troops detained him in December 2002 at a suspected militant’s compound in eastern Afghanistan. The weapon he held in his hands hadn’t been fired, the troops concluded, and he appeared to have been left behind with a group of cooks and errand boys when a local warlord, tipped to the raid, had fled. Full news...
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April 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FNA: An Afghan lawmaker disclosed on Monday that the foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan are involved in the production and trafficking of illicit drugs in the country, adding that the British troops have even trained a number of experts for opium cultivation. “As long as foreign forces are present in Afghanistan, the cultivation, production and trafficking of drugs will continue in the country,” Nasimeh Niazi told FNA. Full news...
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April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 140 acres of government-owned land in the Rahman Mina neighbourhood of Kabul, where a township is being built, has been grabbed by the private Onyx Construction Company. The area that has been converted into residential plots by Onyx was surveyed in 1979 and classified as state property meant for a green belt, shows documentary evidence provided to Pajhwok Afghan News by the Kabul Municipality. Full news...
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April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Post: Just ask Vice President Joe Biden about corruption in Afghanistan. During a now-famous dinner with Hamid Karzai during the 2008 U.S. election year, then-Sen. Biden questioned the Afghan president about corruption in his government. Karzai assured him that reports had been overblown by the Western media. Biden threw down his napkin and walked out. Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New York Times: Despite improvements, more than half of the Pentagon’s big weapons systems still cost more than they should, with management failures adding at least 70 billion USD to the projected costs over the last two years, government auditors said Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office, a Congressional watchdog, said the biggest program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, accounted for 28 billion USD of that increase. Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: When a brother and a nephew of an Afghan vice president wanted to build up their fuel transport business, they took out a $19 million loan from Kabul Bank. When a brother of the president wanted to invest in a cement factory, he took out a $2.9 million loan; he also took out $6 million for a town house in Dubai. When the bank’s chief executive wanted to invest in newly built apartments in Kabul, he took almost $18 million. Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: The US government has denied an entry visa to Malalai Joya for her upcoming book tour for “A Woman Among Warlords”. According to a press statement released Joya, she was denied entry into the US because, “She was ‘unemployed’ and ‘lives underground’… Because of her harsh criticism of warlords and fundamentalists in Afghanistan, she has been the target of at least five assassination attempts.” Full news...
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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: An Afghan warlord backed by US special forces faces persistent allegations that he launched a two-year spate of violence involving burglary, rape and murder of civilians, desecration of mosques and mutilation of corpses. Yet, despite repeated warnings about the atrocities Commander Azizullah is alleged to have committed, he has remained on the payroll of the US military... Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A recount of votes in southeastern Paktia province showed massive rigging had taken place in last year’s parliamentary election, an official said on Thursday. The recount, completed on Wednesday, had been ordered by a special court looking to allegations of fraud in the Sept. 18 election, said Paktia’s appellant court chief, Abdul Jalil Maulvizada. Full news...
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March 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Nearly 300 foreign advisers, most of them Americans, work at Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, and hundreds more work in other government departments, a reliance on foreign expertise that raises doubts about the viability of the West’s exit strategy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will announce later this month his plans for “transition” from heavy international involvement in Afghanistan’s governance and security to local control. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A number of people in Kunduz claim that local militias take their money and mobile phones forcefully and in some cases even beat them up. They say that although this province has been cleared of armed anti-government forces, the people will distance themselves from the government if things continued this way, thus paving the way for the insurgents to return. The people demanded the government to dissolve this illegal force. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: When one looks across the Arab world today at the stunning spontaneous democracy uprisings, it is impossible to not ask: What are we doing spending 110 billion USD this year supporting corrupt and unpopular regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are almost identical to the governments we’re applauding the Arab people for overthrowing? Full news...
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February 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: The chairmen of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting decried on Monday a federal system that has allowed contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan to commit fraud -- then get hired again and again.“For the 200,000 people employed by contractors to provide support and capability in Iraq and Afghanistan, accountability is too often absent, diluted, delayed, or avoided,”... Full news...
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