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April 28, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WordPress.com: Yunus Qanuni, following an election in Afghanistan that has been marked with numerous incidents and reports of direct election fraud. Such wide spread election fraud that it questions, the very legitimacy and nature of Afghanistan’s political process and the stability of it’s very government. In the aftermath of the election, Yunus Qanuni, was appointed as Vice President of Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WordPress.com: In essence to understand the situation of Afghanistan which has been ravished by the Mujahedeen, warlordism and vast corruption. It is a necessity in order to hear from the people of Afghanistan who have been affected by this. That is, the unspoken voices that have suffered from the United States/NATO occupation, who have felt themselves in a place that no human being should be in of dire distress. Full news...
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April 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Compared with the rest of the country, which is plagued by frequent militant attacks and bombings, Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa and Parwan provinces enjoy relative peace and stability. Taliban militants don’t enjoy a strong presence there. Despite this, some villagers in the two neighboring provinces say they won’t be casting their ballots in the April 5 elections because they fear reprisals from local warlords. Full news...
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April 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A large number of weeping women on Wednesday staged a protest rally in northern Faryab province, accusing a local commander of sexually abusing and murdering young girls and children during a bloody clash with civilians. Nearly 100 women, accompanied by children, from Pashtun Kot district arrived in Maimana, the provincial capital, and assembled in front of the governor’s house. Full news...
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March 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: Having a presidential election in Afghanistan is sort of like trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again—that is, if every piece of the eggshell were trying to kill all the other pieces. Thirteen years after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan is no closer to being a unified country than it was back then, after a decade of war during the Soviet period, the civil war that followed and finally the conquest by the Taliban. Full news...
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February 18, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Threat Matrix: For years, The Long War Journal has observed that while media coverage has tended to focus on the Taliban and allied jihadists' efforts in the Afghan south and west, the groups have devoted significant resources in the north. And not just in the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. The Taliban and groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Turkistan Islamic Party have been active in the northern and northwestern provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, Baghlan, Kunduz, Samagan, Balkh, Sar-i-Pul, Jawzjan, Faryab, and Badghis. Full news...
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February 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: He has been called a mentor to accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the man who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in the 1990s. He was accused of war crimes and atrocities, and even has a terror group named after him in the Philippines. But these days, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf has refashioned himself as an influential lawmaker, elder statesman and religious scholar — and possibly the next president of Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the Burka district of northern Baghlan province on Monday held a protest against gunmen involved in killing civilians and accused a provincial council member of backing outlaws. Tens of people gathered in front of the police headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, blasting government for failing to take action against the gunmen who killed three teenage boys in Burka in one month. Full news...
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December 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Gunmen loyal to Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum have allegedly attacked and beaten some residents of a village on the outskirts of Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province. Nearly 100 people, protesting in front of the governor’s house, accused armed supporters of the Junbish-i-Milli Afghanistan leader of severely beating residents of Hassan Tabin village. Full news...
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December 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some residents of Borka district in northern Baghlan province have accused member of a provincial council of harassing and intimidating locals through police force. Abdul Jabar Islami, administrative head of Borka district, alleged that Haji Mohammad, a provincial council member, of using police officials to harass and press local citizens. Full news...
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December 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should expedite its preliminary inquiry on grave international crimes committed in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. In its November 2013 Report on Preliminary Examination Activities, the ICC prosecutor’s office found that “[W]ar crimes and crimes against humanity were and continue to be committed in Afghanistan,”... Full news...
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November 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Deep sorrow has turned Shahfiqa Salehzai’s hair grey. In 1989 she was a married woman with three children. She worked in the development sector in a company called Yama. Her husband was a fighter pilot. Life couldn’t have been better. “We were a happy family. I had been married for 10 years. I had three children, the two older girls were nine and seven years old, and my son was the youngest,” she says. Full news...
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November 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Faizabad mayor’s son stabbed to death a construction engineer in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Syed Jahangir Karamat, the deputy police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victim, Ahmad Javed was on the way to his brother wedding’s ceremony in Faizabad. Full news...
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October 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday expressed its deep concern over the increasing culture of male prostitution in society, asking the government to check the menace. The AIHRC said the immoral practice was widespread and increasingly becoming a tradition involving powerful men. The individuals complicit in the sordid business were apparently getting away with the crime, she added. Full news...
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October 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The deadline for registering as a candidate in Afghanistan’s coming presidential election was Sunday, and the election commission had a request for contenders: When you come to declare your candidacy, do not bring your gunmen. Afghan and Western officials have for months described the election, scheduled for April 5, as a chance for Afghans to decide the path their country will take as the forces of the American-led coalition depart. Full news...
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October 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: A well-known former Afghan warlord who welcomed Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda fighters to his training camps in the 1990s and was a mentor to the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks is one of the candidates running to be the country’s next president in elections next April. Full news...
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September 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: On Sep 16, the three-week period for filing nominations for the April 2014 presidential and provincial elections started. Afghan voters will be going to the polls to decide their leaders. But there exists an underlying fear that like in previous elections the warlords, former leaders of jehadist parties, immeasurably wealthy and powerful, will deal with the destiny of people. Full news...
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September 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera America: A grainy photograph of a group prayer session wouldn’t normally trigger much attention in Afghanistan’s capital. But with speculation rife about who might run for the country’s presidency, the picture of former firebrand Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf leading an evening prayer on the Afghan vice president’s porch stirred rumors about Sayaf’s political aspirations after it appeared on Facebook. Full news...
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September 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VICE: On a cold January afternoon last year, Qurban the bodyguard left his boss’s house in Bamyan province, Afghanistan to buy some coal at the bazar. Qurban's boss was Wahidi Beheshti – governor of a remote district in Bamyan province – who had been allowing Qurban, his wife Soraya and her 16-year-old sister Shakila to stay at his home. Full news...
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August 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of people attended a gathering in western Herat province on Sunday and asked the government to arrest a notorious criminal, Hakimullah Shujai. Shujai, a resident of southern Ghazni province, has allegedly killed 121 people and injured hundreds others in the Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province. Full news...
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July 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: When Afghan President Hamid Karzai finally appointed new members to the country’s top human rights watchdog last month, it was meant to end a long period of limbo for a body that had lost five of its members. Instead, the president’s appointments have sparked an uproar in the rights community, both in Afghanistan and abroad. Full news...
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May 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: For the death of three sons in the war in the eighties Keshwara, 65, gets 8000 Afs (145 USD) from the government. She lives in Jalalabad with her last surviving son, and tries to forget the despair and hardship of the past. Keshwara remembers it was 1989. The Soviet army had just withdrawn from Afghanistan, and the war was now between government troops and mujahedin armed by the US. Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. U.S. soldiers rushed to the scene to help, including some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor. Full news...
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April 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Shah Barat was a zookeeper at the Kabul Zoo when Taleban fighters marched into the city. He did not flee like tens of thousands of people. He stayed on to look after the animals in the zoo. Before the Taleban took over the city in 1996, Kabul Zoo was home to 37 species. There was Marjan, the zoo’s much-loved lion, an Indian elephant, deer, birds and many other animals. Full news...
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April 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Years of war have turned Afghanistan into the most mined country in the world. Landmines have killed and maimed tens of thousands. Mahro was 10 years old when exploding ordnance robbed her of her sight, and the use of one hand. Now 28, she lives in Kabul’s Gulbagh area. In 1994, the family was living in Qala-e-Haidar Khan next to Arghandiin Kabul province. They owned cows, and the sale of milk was their means of livelihood. Full news...
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April 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Hamidullah, the headmaster of Haji Mir Alam girls’ school in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province, was sitting at his desk in the summer of 2011 when members of a local militia entered the school. The armed men escorted Hamidullah outside the school gate where their commander, Qadirak, was waiting. Then they beat him unconscious with their rifles. Full news...
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April 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Shab-e-Barat, “the Night of Forgiveness”, is an Islamic holiday celebrating God’s mercy. People pray for forgiveness for those who died. Families invite their daughters and sisters on this night. Shab-e-Barat was when 55-year-old Mahparwar’s younger brother was killed by the mujahedin. A testimony* Full news...
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March 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sydney Morning Herald: In the twilight that passes for reality in Afghanistan, the story of Hakim Shujoyi does not add up neatly – but there’s enough in its different parts to suggest that a monster is stalking the eastern flank of Oruzgan province. Personal detail is opaque, but not the contradictions from which Shujoyi draws inordinate power in Khas Oruzgan, a wild and mountainous swath of the province... Full news...
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February 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: In April 1987, Afghanistan ratified the UN Convention against Torture. But it did not stop either the government or its opponents from using the most cruel and inhuman methods to punish and extract information from political rivals. The crimes were never probed; the victims were never compensated. Full news...
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February 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Mohammad Hasan says he had a good life before the breakout of war in the nineties. The fighting between mujahedin factions rendered him a pauper. Two decades have passed, he has not recovered. Before the war, Hasan, 67, was a motor mechanic in a village near Ghazni. “I was a popular mechanic, and I had a good life. I had 80 barrels of oil in my shop. I had a truck,” he says with great pride. Full news...
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