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September 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Newsday.com: Nearly six years after the United States toppled the Taliban regime in the wake of Sept. 11, Nuristan, like the rest of the country, has no effective government. For this province half the size of New Jersey and home to about 750,000 people, Gov. Tamim Nuristani is authorized 300 police officers -- barely more than the number assigned to a typical Long Island precinct. When he begged to hire 180 men as auxiliary cops last year to help stop guerrillas infiltrating from neighboring Pakistan, the government agreed, but then said it had no money for salaries and fired them. Full news...
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September 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The Afghan urban development minister says land is being appropriated illegally by powerful individuals at a rate of two sq km (0.8 sq miles) a day. Full news...
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September 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A senior police officer Tuesday alleged foreign security firms were involved in kidnappings, robberies and dacoities in Kabul. In his testimony before a parliamentary commission, crime investigations chief Gen. Alishah Paktiawal said both foreign and local employees of the security agencies were involved in such crimes. Full news...
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August 28, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Fighting sleaze is no easy task in a country like Afghanistan, as anti-corruption tsar Izzatullah Wasifi can testify. The economy is awash with opium money, and bribery and backhanders are rife, as confirmed by yesterday's alarming UN report. Full news...
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August 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: In last four years, more than one hundred thousand drug smugglers were identified in the country but only four of them were booked and arrested as drug producers and traffickers. Full news...
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August 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A number of people in Takhar refer to their province as ‘kingdom of bandits' and blame some of the local commanders of intervening in the government affairs, usurpation of peoples' land and properties, violence against women and unlawful conducts. But the commanders say such claims are baseless. Full news...
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August 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: At least on the surface, media is one of the more successful areas of development in Afghanistan. According to figures from the Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs, more than 500 print publications have opened since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, as well as 70 radio and 18 television stations, both government-owned and private. Full news...
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August 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBS News: American doctor Dave Warner is on a mission in eastern Afghanistan to show people back home how billions of taxpayer dollars sent here are being wasted. Full news...
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August 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: For more than eight centuries the "Towers of Victory" -- monuments to Afghanistan's greatest empire -- have survived wars and invasions, but now weather and neglect could cause them to come crashing down. Full news...
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August 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Yemen Observer: "The conditions of my imprisonment were those of a small-scale Guantanamo," said Kamran Mir Hazar, "with four persons crammed into a dark 2-by-3 meter cell, without any contact to the outside world, and no access to a lawyer." The 31-year-old journalist and author was recently arrested on the street by agents of the Afghan secret police. Full news...
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July 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Herald Tribune: Afghanistan's government fired a provincial governor days after he said Afghans are distancing themselves from President Hamid Karzai and that a "vacuum of authority" is allowing the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups to gain power. Full news...
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June 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: It has been a difficult few weeks for President Hamed Karzai. Not only has his attorney general publicly accused a former interior ministry official of attempting to kidnap him, his law officers have tried and failed to search the home of a former Kabul police chief, and a high-ranking military official is engaged in a violent dispute with a governor in the north. Full news...
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June 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Iraq now ranks as the second most unstable country in the world, ahead of war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed State index issued today by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace. Full news...
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May 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Hundreds of Badghis people staged a protest demonstration demanding removal of the provincial Governor Muhammad Nasim Tokhi. The protestors alleged the governor was involved in corruption and misuse of authority. They say the pace of reconstruction has also slowed down since his appointment as governor of the province. Full news...
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May 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): The new director of Ariana Airlines says that during last five years more than 60 million US Dollars has been embezzled in this company. Full news...
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May 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The International Herald Tribune: Afghanistan's government, competing with the Taliban for public support and trying to fend off accusations that it is corrupt and ineffective, is moving to curb one of its own most impressive achievements: the country's flourishing independent news media. Full news...
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April 28, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government, tarnished by corruption and unable to control large swaths of its own territory, is rapidly losing the support of ordinary Afghans, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said Saturday. Full news...
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April 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Local residents in the Sangeen district of the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand said armed Afghan men in military uniforms looted their homes and businesses in early April. There are conflicting reports on whether the men were allied with international forces fighting the Taliban or whether they were an independent militia. Full news...
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April 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's attorney-general, accused by critics of regularly breaking the law, has raided Tolo television, one of the country's most popular stations, over a news item, the broadcaster said on Wednesday. Full news...
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April 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN): More than five years after the ousting of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, residents of the southern province of Helmand say their lives have become more insecure. Full news...
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March 28, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan's national airline could be days from collapse due to corruption, mismanagement and a crippling airplane lease that has drowned the struggling airline in debt. Full news...
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March 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The News International: In the markets of Mazar-i-Sharif and the much-turned ground of the nearby ancient city of Balkh where Alexander the Great married and Zoroaster lived, Afghans are eking out a living from the rich treasures of the fabulous Bactrian Empire. Full news...
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March 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaleej Times: Bribery and corruption are pervasive in Afghanistan's current government, according to a survey released Monday that said most Afghans believe their leaders are more corrupt than the Soviet-backed government in the 1980s or the Taliban-run government in the 1990s. Full news...
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March 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as "Mr. E." In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound-and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 cash — unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Nevada state prison for nearly four years. Full news...
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March 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: "There are some parts of Afghanistan where the last thing people want to see is the police showing up," said Brigadier-General Gary O'Brien, former deputy commanding general of police for the Combined Security Transition Command -- Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Hundreds of the protesters, mainly mechanics, flooded to the streets in Lashkargah capital of southern province of Helmand to complain ill-treatment and torture by local policemen. Full news...
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February 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn (Pakistan): "Security has sharply deteriorated in all regions. Afghans are more insecure today than they were in 2005. This is due largely to the violence surrounding the insurgency and counter-insurgency campaigns, and the inability of security forces to combat warlords and drug traffickers." Full news...
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February 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AntiWar.com: A crazy woman stalks the streets near Afghanistan’s parliament. When a warlord’s rocket killed her family during the early 1990s she lost her mind. Now she moves between the cars and people looking for it, another of the living dead trapped in her own private hell. Full news...
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February 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via The Boston Globe: More than five years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the plundering of Afghanistan's archaeological sites and museums not only continues but has evolved into a sophisticated trade that could be financing the country's warlords and insurgents, experts say. Full news...
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February 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A leading US think-tank has asked for "removal of corrupt" governors and police chiefs to bolster people's confidence in the incumbent government in Afghanistan. Full news...
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