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October 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pink News: Young boys are being sexually abused in Afghanistan in line with a tradition where they are bought by older men to dance at parties. The practice of "bacha baazi", meaning "boy-play", is enjoying a resurgence in the North of Afghanistan where ownership is seen as a status symbol by militia leaders according to Afghan news site, e-Ariana. Full news...
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October 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Panicked residents of Faryab province say a local warlord is exacting tribute and abusing civilians while the government does nothing to stop him. Shahabudin fled when life became intolerable for him in his native district of Pashtun Kot, in the northern Afghan province of Faryab. He claims that a former militia commander has taken over Pashtun Kot and is ruling virtually unchallenged. Full news...
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September 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: While attention focuses on fighting in southern Afghanistan, there are parts of the north where the law is made not by Kabul, but by militia commanders who use violence and intimidation to maintain their hold over the civilian population. Full news...
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August 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Herald Tribune: On the eve of his Camp David meeting with President George W. Bush, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan painted a bleak picture of life in his country, saying that the security situation had worsened and that the United States and its allies were no closer to catching Osama bin Laden than they were a few years ago. Full news...
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July 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Mail on Sunday: This week the 64th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, Corporal Mike Gilyeat, was buried. All the right things were said about this brave soldier, just as, on current trends, they will be said about one or more of his colleagues who follow him next week. Full news...
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June 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: KABUL - Unidentified gunmen shot dead an Afghan woman journalist, the second such killing in less than a week, officials said on Wednesday. Zakia Zaki, who also served as headmistress of a school, ran a private radio station partially funded by a Western media group. Full news...
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May 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: The US-backed political elite in Kabul have recently made a series of judicial rulings with grave implications for democratic rights that has received little comment in the international media. Full news...
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May 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The most outspoken female MP in Afghanistan has been expelled from parliament after saying proceedings had descended to a level "worse than a zoo". The views of Malalai Joya, in a television interview, outraged fellow parliamentarians, who immediately voted to suspend her from the house for the rest of her five-year term. Some even demanded that she should be brought before a court for defamation and stripped of the right to stand again as a candidate. Full news...
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May 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Taliban insurgents and armed Afghan groups are processing opium in makeshift laboratories to maximise drug profits and better fund the fight against Western forces, a top US drug official said on Monday. Full news...
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May 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The war-era weapons were being smuggled from northern parts to the restive southern zone, said an official of the Disarmament of Irresponsible Armed Groups (DIAG) programme in Balkh on Sunday. Full news...
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April 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: If there's one thing Abdul Rasul Sayyaf knows, it's how to guard an exposed flank.As one of many warlords battling for control of Kabul in the early 1990s, Sayyaf ordered his fighters to protect their positions and press for advantage — which they did by shelling civilian neighborhoods and slaughtering members of Afghanistan's oppressed ethnic Hazara minority, human rights groups say. Full news...
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April 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OhmyNews: In an apparent move to appease former strongmen and Jihadi commanders, the Afghan government has decided to award them special medals on April 28, the day when mujahideen or holy warriors overthrew the Russian-backed regime in Afghanistan in 1992. Full news...
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April 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The United Nations and two prominent human rights organisations have raised grave concerns about the increasing number of civilians affected in armed conflicts in Afghanistan. On Monday, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the dramatic rise in civilian casualties during insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Deccan Herald: For the US administration, Afghanistan is a lab experiment gone horribly wrong, very much like Iraq. Not only did they lose initiative within months of their invasion here; the brutality and randomness of their attacks resulted in more civilian deaths than insurgents. In five years the death toll is five times the number killed in the 9/11 attacks. So if retribution is what they were really after, then they have overachieved. And, this does not include deaths by radioactive material and cluster bombs. Full news...
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March 14, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Denver Post: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls Afghanistan "a war that is unfinished and nearly forgotten." For all the political drama that is unfolding over the Democrats' decision to use the upcoming debate over war spending to challenge President Bush's policies in Iraq, the Democratic congressional caucus is also using the spending measure for a purpose equally crucial. It is redirecting funds toward Afghanistan in a last-ditch effort to rescue the country that was the original "central front" in the war on terror. Full news...
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March 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TheTyee.ca: A ripple of laughter passes through a crowd of about 1,500 packed into a Kabul wedding hall last Friday afternoon. Onstage, warlords sit on plastic chairs talking to an American in a slick dark suit and shades. "I have to go to a meeting now," the American says abruptly as the warlords rise from their seats in protest. "Don't worry, we'll support you." Full news...
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February 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via MSNBC: The disarmament of Afghanistan's illegal private militias has ground to a halt and the price of weapons in the country's relatively quiet north is skyrocketing — a sign of the embattled central government's failure to assert its control, Afghan and Western officials say. Full news...
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February 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan: The upper house of Afghanistan's parliament -- the Meshrano Jirga -- approved a controversial bill today that rules out legal proceedings for war crimes committed by Afghans during the last 25 years, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported. Full news...
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February 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: A local journalist has been killed by unknown armed men in Afghanistan's northwest Faryab province, said a local official Monday. Full news...
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February 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A number of Hindus in the Kundoz province lacking shelter in the meantime claim that some of their residents have been occupied by powerful people. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwak Afghan News: People of Parwan expressed their concern about the increased rates of crimes and defined the main factor as the presence of irresponsible armed groups. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Standing at a security checkpoint dressed in a battered combat jacket and leaking boots, Zaralam said he had joined the "army" because he had to earn some money for his family. "It's tough working day and night, but I earn 2,000 Afghanis [US $40] a month and get some food too," the 14-year old military policeman told IRIN in the Daman district of the southern city of Kandahar. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: It may be conventional wisdom that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but for Afghan actor Hanif Hangam, the furor surrounding the film Kabul Express has been very unfortunate indeed. He has been forced to flee his homeland because of lines uttered by his character in a new Indian-American-Afghan film. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Accusations of brutality are nothing new for General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who commanded an Uzbek militia faction throughout years of civil war in Afghanistan. The international watchdog group Human Rights Watch has repeatedly alleged that he is a war criminal. Full news...
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February 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
DPA via TeluguPortal.Net: The United Nations office in Afghanistan has voiced strong opposition to the Afghan parliament's approval of a bill granting immunity to war-criminals and exempting them from judicial proceedings. Full news...
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February 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaleej Times: Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials. Full news...
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January 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: More than 1,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006, most of them as a result of attacks by the Taliban and other anti-government forces in the country's unstable south, a rights group said Tuesday. Full news...
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January 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Agence France Presse: The influence of Iran is a source of tension between Shiites and Sunnis that recently exploded into deadly violence in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, residents say. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Yemen Times: All eyes have been on Iraq since the US invasion a little over a year ago. But Afghanistan, where the United States started its war on terror after the attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001, is full of violence, warring factions and drug-lords. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Terrorism Monitor: The Afghan media has published an increasing number of critical reports about Iran's secret contacts with insurgent groups in Afghanistan, specifically those groups fighting against the U.S. presence in the country. Full news...
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