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September 7, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police guards at the Iranian consulate on Saturday opened fire at protestors in western Herat province, killing one and injuring four others, an official said. The protest involving dozens of residents, mostly labourers, was staged in front of the Iranian consulate in Herat City, the provincial capital. Full news...
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September 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The British military fired nearly seven times as many missiles from unmanned drones in Afghanistan last year as it did five years earlier, according to official data released on Friday. In 2012 British drones flew 892 missions over Afghanistan -- firing missiles on 92 occasions -- more than 10 percent of all sorties, junior defence minister Andrew Robathan said in a written statement to parliament. Full news...
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September 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Afghan President Hamid Karzai should take urgent action to fight child marriage and domestic violence or risk further harm to development and public health in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the president. In the 15-page briefing paper, “Afghanistan: Ending Child Marriage and Domestic Violence,” Human Rights Watch highlights the health and economic consequences of marriage under age 18 and violence against women and girls. 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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September 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: It has become socially acceptable for pregnant women to undergo sex determination tests across the country. Female Afghans are not safe even inside their mother’s womb, say activists and human rights defenders. The ultrasound sonography machine is being widely misused for pre-natal sex determination not only in Kabul but also in many cities and provinces. Full news...
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September 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: At least 203 people, most of them civilians, were killed and hundreds wounded in bombings and attacks across Afghanistan last month, according to official figures. Among a total of 50 major bomb attacks launched by the Taliban and other militant groups, around 20 were of the suicide nature. Full news...
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August 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: At least six people have been killed and 30 others wounded in two attacks in southern Afghanistan, according to local authorities. An explosion took place on Saturday morning at a checkpoint near a branch of the New Kabul Bank in Kandahar, Javed Faisal, a provincial spokesman, said. Full news...
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August 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The Australian Defence Force is investigating allegations of misconduct directed at an elite Australian special forces unit on a combined operation in Afghanistan earlier in the year. The ABC reports that the Australian troops on operation with Afghan forces in the southern province of Zabul removed the hands of at least one insurgent's corpse to take back to an Australian base in Tarin Kot, the capital of the neighbouring Uruzgan province. Full news...
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August 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Incidents of rape and self-immolation among women have been on the increase in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Thursday. So far 125 cases of violence against women have been registered in the province since the start of this solar year, the women’s affairs director, Nasima Arzo, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a base operated by Polish and Afghan forces in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni on Wednesday, local officials and a Reuters witness said. Another 20 people - including at least nine soldiers - died in a spate of bombings elsewhere in the country. Full news...
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August 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The Afghan Taleban executed 13 Afghan workers in two provinces after accusing them of working for the government, officials said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of brutal attacks on civilians this year. President Hamid Karzai condemned the killings with a swipe at Pakistan, which he has been visiting for two days. Full news...
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August 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police have detained the husbands of two women allegedly raped a month back in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the women’s affairs director alleged on Tuesday. Nasima Arzo told Pajhwok Afghan News the two women were sexually assaulted by two young men -- aged 20 and 21 years -- in Sancharak district. The alleged rapists are still at large. 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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August 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some elected public representatives are impeding the execution of public welfare projects in southeastern Paktika province, civil society activists alleged on Friday. Parliamentarians from the province sought their share (percentage) in development funds from construction companies, the Orgun Youth Cultural Society chief claimed. Full news...
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August 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Committee to Protect Afghan Journalists (CPAJ) on Thursday said it had registered 41 cases of violence against media representatives during the first six months of the year. In its half-yearly report, the CPAJ said it was deeply concerned about the situation of media outlets, their future and the challenges and threats facing them. Full news...
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August 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the provincial capital of northern Baghlan province on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against the alleged torture and arrest of innocent people by ISAF and Afghan forces during a night raids. Nearly 150 people took part in the rally in the Joi Naw area of Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital. Full news...
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August 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: As compared to previous years arrests of drug traffickers has fallen this year and drug addiction levels show no sign of slowing down. An investigation by NematullahTanin. “You can obtain any type of narcotics at any time of day or night,” says a drug seller in Kabul’s Silo Park who wants to be anonymous. Full news...
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August 19, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Six years ago, when Najib* was 15, Taliban fighters came to his home in Shinwar District* in the eastern province of Nangarhar telling him to join them. After repeated visits, his family sought a way for Najib to escape, and paid a smuggler to take him to the UK. Six years on, he has just arrived back in his village, having been deported from the UK, but the threats to get him to join the Taliban are now greater than ever, he says. Full news...
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August 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: A series of attacks in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 20 people -- all but one of them civilians -- in the space of less than 24 hours, officials said Saturday. Ten people died when a group of insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in the country’s western Herat province Friday evening, police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. Full news...
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August 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two separate domestic violence incidents claimed four lives in Badghis and Ghazni provinces, officials say. In the western province of Badghis, a man shot dead his wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law in Dara-i-Boom area of Qades district on Wednesday night, the district chief said. Full news...
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August 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of remote areas in southern Ghazni province complain they have to take their sick women to the provincial capital for treatment due to the shortage of lady doctors in health clinics in their areas. A Giro district resident, Kamal Shah, whose wife has been admitted at the civil hospital in Ghazni City, said there was no lady doctor in health centres in his home town. Full news...
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August 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three women, including a young girl, have been murdered in northern Kunduz, Takhar and northwestern Faryab provinces, officials said on Tuesday. An 18-year-old girl was mistakenly killed by his brother while cleaning his gun in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz on Wednesday evening, the district chief, Imamuddin Quraishi, said. He said an investigation had been launched to ascertain if it was a deliberate murder. Full news...
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August 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: The young boy does not say a word. His eyes water as he turns away, staring out the window or at the mud walls of his family home in Dasht-e-Qala, in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province. Just across the river and over the hills lie Tajikistan and the vast expanse of Central Asia. Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see. Full news...
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August 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three women were among five civilians killed during two separate but near simultaneous roadside bombings in the Charchino district of central Uruzgan province on Sunday, officials said. The three women and one child were killed and another child wounded when a landmine ripped through their vehicle in the Sarab area, moments after another similar blast killed one civilian and wounded another on a motorcycle in the same area... Full news...
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August 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women has increased in northern Takhar province, where 180 cases were registered over the past four months, compared to 100 incidents during the same period last year, an official says. Takhar Women’s Affairs director Razm Ara Hawash told Pajhwok Afghan News during an interview that her department was deeply concerned about the increasing incidents of violence against the gender. Full news...
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August 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Those who speculate that Iran will somehow absorb western Afghanistan into its sphere of influence when US and NATO forces drawdown in 2014 have not been through the doors of the threadbare “Public Library and Cultural Center” in Herat. Full news...
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August 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A bomb planted in an Afghan graveyard killed 14 women and children on Thursday, many of them picnicking at the graveside of a family member during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said. The bomb exploded in a rural district of eastern Nangarhar province, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. Full news...
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August 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: “The bomber took the life of my only son and changed this year’s Eid festival into a sea of sorrows for me,” says the mother of a 24-year-old who was among 14 killed in a February suicide attack in northern Kunduz province. The attack left another 19 people injured in Kunduz City, the provincial capital. Most of those killed were traffic police officials. They included counterterrorism chief, provincial traffic police chief and Abdul Qadir, the only son of Laila. Full news...
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August 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unknown men raped and strangled to death and hanged a 13-year-old boy from a tree in the capital of northern Sar-i-Pul province, officials and family said on Tuesday. Sar-i-Pul police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Rauf Taj said the boy was found dead late on Monday in the first police district of the provincial capital. He identified the victim as Mohammad Sharif, son of Faiz Mohammad. Full news...
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August 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Of all the challenges the United States faces as it winds down the Afghanistan war, the most difficult might be closing the prison nicknamed “The Second Guantanamo.” The United States holds 67 non-Afghan prisoners there, including some described as hardened al-Qaeda operatives seized from around the world in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. More than a decade later, they’re still kept in the shadowy facility at Bagram air base outside Kabul. Full news...
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