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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Around four hundred cases of rape and honor-killing have been filed with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Comission (AIHRC) during the past two years. AIHRC officials called the latest statistics as “shocking” and expressed concerns that majority of similar cases have not been recorded due to strict traditional sensitivities. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Human smuggling to Iran has put many undocumented immigrants from border villages in Afghanistan at risk. The bodies of 172 youth have been brought to Kelefgan. Residents of Kelefgan district in Takhar province say many of their relatives have been hanged in Iran. There is not a single month in which the bodies of two or three young men have not been brought to the district for burial. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Taliban fighters beheaded two boys aged 10 and 16 as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government, local officials said. The boys, named Khan and Hameedullah, had travelled to Afghan army and police checkpoints near their home in the southern province of Kandahar, scrounging for leftover food to bring to their families, the officials said. Full news...
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June 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Engineer Ewaz Ali Wafa was among thousands of innocent people who were imprisoned in Sadarat (the prime minister’s palace) and Pul-e-Charkhi jail in the 1980s. Wafa has many bad memories of torture by security officials of the communist government. He has never dared to share these. Full news...
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June 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man gunned down his sister on suspicion of having an illicit relationship with a boy in northeastern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday evening when the 18 years old was killed with a Kalashnikov in Khak Kani area on the outskirts of Kunduz City. Full news...
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June 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of various districts of the eastern Nangarhar province complain of deteriorated security situation elsewhere in the province amid raging terror attempts, abduction, and roadside bomb blasts, blaming the authorities of turning blind eye to check the situation. However, concerned officials of the province while refuting residents’ complain of mayhem and turmoil... Full news...
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June 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ToloNews: A foreign force’s drone strike killed at least three civilians and wounded six others in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. Kunar Provincial Governor Fazlullah Wahidi confirmed the attack and said that these civilians were killed Wednesday night when foreign forces wanted to target the Taliban insurgents in the Dara Pech area of Nangam district. Full news...
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June 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. Full news...
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June 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An official says three children and their father died when their car hit a bomb on a road in western Afghanistan, the latest deaths in a sharp rise in civilian casualties. Farah province spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai says the family was driving early Tuesday when their car hit the buried bomb. The father and children were killed instantly. The mother was critically injured. Full news...
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June 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Two bomb blasts killed at least 19 people, including nine schoolchildren, in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, as Afghan Taliban militants continued a wave of violence as part of their spring offensive. In one attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives in a busy market in eastern Paktia province... Full news...
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June 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Anywhere you go to in Afghanistan you will hear sad stories of war. Even if your heart were made of stone these will make you weep. Uncle Malak Shamsudin from Salang testifies. “It was early morning on Dalwa 24, 1367(early 1988). There was half a metre of snow on the ground. Suddenly there was the sound of rockets and bombs. In the blink of an eye eight of my family members and seven of my uncle’s sons were dead.” Full news...
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June 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Some 97 girls from two schools in northern Afghanistan have reportedly been hospitalized after falling sick as a result of suspected gas poisoning. In Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, a total of 77 girls from the same school were taken to hospital on Saturday afternoon after they fell ill, Afghan Pajhwok news agency reported on Sunday. Full news...
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June 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: With more and more women coming forward to report violence against them by husbands and family members, the rate of convictions has been disappointingly low, victims and human rights activists say. A joint investigation by the Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) shows there has been a dramatic surge in violent acts and crimes against women... Full news...
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May 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Kamdesh district of eastern Nuristan province has come under missile strike from Pakistan’s soil, an official said on Friday. Dozens of missiles had landed in Gordesh area since Thursday night, Nuristan’s acting police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three civilian homes were destroyed and as many torched during a clash between armed insurgents and security forces in the Garziwan district of northwestern Faryab province, residents claimed on Thursday. They said the clash had been ongoing over the last three days, asking both sides to leave their villages and avoid creating problems for them. Full news...
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May 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: The war in Afghanistan will cost every British household 2,000 GBP, a foreign policy adviser to the Government said yesterday. But Frank Ledwidge added that not a single Al Qaeda terrorist who posed a threat to Britain has been killed by Nato forces in Helmand. And the province is no more stable now than when British troops were deployed there in 2006. Full news...
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May 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Impoverished Afghanistan, already plagued by insurgency and struggling to contain crippling rates of opium addiction, faces another potential headache with spiraling usage of the synthetic drug crystal methamphetamine. The growing use of the drug, known as crystal meth or ice, comes at a critical time. Full news...
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May 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: The rise of independent media in Afghanistan has been one of the country’s biggest achievements - but there are troubling signs for its future. A growing number of attacks on journalists, and the international community’s continued silence on the issue, are drawing concern. Naqibullah, a shopkeeper on so-called “electronic street” in Kabul, sells TVs and DVD players Full news...
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May 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There is overwhelming evidence of a proliferation of poorly constructed, illegal townships across the country with efforts ongoing to execute more housing schemes on usurped lands. An investigation by the Independent Media Consortium (IMC)* reveals there are multiple agencies at work and unable to check the rot. High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption chief Azizullah Ludin says documents of most of townships are fake... 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 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A blast during Friday night prayers in a mosque in central Afghanistan killed 12 people, eight of them Taliban insurgents, officials said Saturday. The insurgents placed explosives in a corner of the mosque, in Ghazni province’s Andar district, before joining worshipers, according to Qasim Deswal, a local official. Full news...
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May 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of people on Saturday staged a protest in the capital of southeastern Paktika province, asking Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel to take away their posts from their homes. The protesting residents asked security high ups to establish posts for ALP members away from residential houses as their presence posed threat to their lives. Full news...
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May 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Explosions rocked central Kabul for five hours after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organization for Migration, an aid agency. There are still conflicting reports on the number of casualties in the attack on Friday, but Al Jazeera has learned that at least one police officer was killed, alongside four gunmen... Full news...
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May 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A top human rights organization on Wednesday said thousands of Afghan civilians continue to suffer from “targeted and indiscriminate attacks” by armed militant groups. Amnesty International, in its global review of human rights issues, said quoted figures from the UN, which held militants responsible for 80 percent of the 2,700 civilians killed last year. Full news...
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May 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 17 schoolgirls were brought to hospital for possible poisoning in central Bamyan province on Wednesday, a day after 75 schoolgirls fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in northern Faryab province, officials said. The Bamyan Girls’ High School students started vomiting and fell unconscious after smelling gas at their classrooms in the morning... Full news...
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May 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said today. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for... Full news...
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May 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Archaeologists just south of Kabul are racing to preserve one of the richest Buddhist historical sites ever found. The ancient monasteries and statues in Mes Aynak are under threat from a Chinese company which plans to develop the area in order to tap into the world’s second largest copper deposit. Full news...
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May 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: Afghanistan’s parliament has blocked women’s rights legislation approved by President Hamid Karzai in 2009, claiming that it is un-Islamic. The Elimination of Violence Against Women Law, or EVAL, which requires parliamentary support to pass, aims to prevent violence against women, child marriages, and forced marriages. Full news...
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May 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said. “The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening,”... Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: The impeachment of Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal, on charges of accusing M.P.s of smuggling, began like any other. Zakhilwal patiently listened to members of Parliament ask their questions—about budget cuts, nepotism in his ministry, and tax evasion by large companies. Full news...
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