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March 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Corruption is undermining infrastructure projects in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, as new roads rapidly deteriorate and officials calling a halt to further construction because of concerns about workmanship. Helmand became one of Afghanistan’s most violent provinces after the fall of the Taleban in 2001, but has moved slowly towards greater stability in the last three years, enabling much-needed construction projects to go ahead. Full news...
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March 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 22 people from one extended family have been killed in an avalanche in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province, officials say. They say that the avalanche took place in the Wakhan Corridor, a small, mountainous and remote finger of land which pokes into China. Full news...
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March 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: US army staff sergeant Robert Bales is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, and then burning some of the bodies. The massacre took place in two villages in the southern rural district of Panjwai. Though this horrific crime targeted Afghans on Afghan soil, Afghanistan will play no role in investigating the crime or bringing the perpetrator (or perpetrators) to justice. Full news...
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March 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Lately, we have been asked to believe that quite a few events in Afghanistan are anomalies, and should not be taken as more broadly representative of anything. Accidents happen, and sometimes really bad things happen, but they don’t reflect anything deeper about our war that should trouble us. Full news...
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March 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Incidents of violence against journalists showed a 38 percent increase in 2011, rising concerns among the community that the hostility could continue to rise this year, a media support organisation said on Monday. “On average, three journalists have been killed in Afghanistan every year. In the most recent case, the manager of Melma radio station was murdered in (southeastern) Paktika province,” the group said. Full news...
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March 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Globalist.it: We cringe when we read of medieval codes passed by the Afghan government against women. But soon we focus on political figures who are the authors and are taking that country back in history, who are replacements of the Taliban, who had been temporarily removed from power by the military intervention of 2001. Full news...
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March 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: US soldiers were alleged to have sexually assaulted two female victims before they were killed in the Panjwai massacre in southern Kandahar last Sunday, a high-level Afghan probe team revealed. The Wolesi Jirga’s, or lower house of Parliament, delegation investigating the Kandahar shootings by US troops said besides killing 16 civilians, the soldiers sexually assaulted them. Full news...
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March 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Digital Journal: Up to 20 U.S. troops have been implicated in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar on Sunday morning, the Afghan parliamentary investigation team reports. An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has spent 2 days collating reports from survivors, witnesses and other inhabitants in the villages where the massacre took place. 16 civilians were killed including 9 children. Full news...
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March 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RealNewsNetwork.com: Sonali Kolhatkar is a founding Director of the US-based solidarity organization, Afghan Women’s Mission, which raises funds for social and political women-led projects in Afghanistan. She is co-author of the book, "Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence". She is also the host and Executive Producer of Uprising, heard on KPFK Pacifica Radio. Full news...
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March 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: In Afghanistan, if NATO forces kill a member of your family, it is better in terms of money if they come from Germany or Italy than the United States or Britain. In the cold calculation of how much to pay for victims of the decade-old war, British forces have doled out as little as 210 USD, while German forces have paid as much as 25,000 USD, according to a study by the human rights NGO CIVIC. Full news...
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March 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press Com. of CISDA: It is announced that on March 17, in Via San Gallicano, Rome the infamous Afghan warlord and criminal Mohammed Mohaqiq, leader of the fundamentalist Hezb-e-Wahdat Party will visit. On 16 March this brutal criminal is the keynote speaker at a conference held in Campidoglio, in presence of the fascist Mayor of Rome: Alemanno... Full news...
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March 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: NATO troops in Afghanistan are on high alert after the Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 innocent civilians - including nine children and three women - who were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a “mental breakdown” early Sunday morning. The Army staff sergeant, stationed at a U.S. base in Kandahar, entered three Afghan family’s homes at 3am and began the vicious killing spree. Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed 10 civilians and wounded five in Kandahar province after suffering a breakdown, officials say. He left his military base in the early hours of the morning and opened fire after entering local homes, the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul. Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Manoramaonline: Hundreds of angry protesters Saturday chanted anti-US slogans demanding prosecution of foreign troops at a rally in Afghanistan, Press TV reported. The rally was held in the northeastern town of Tagab in Kapisa province protesting the presence of US-led forces in the country. Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A prominent Afghan women’s rights activist says gunmen have attacked her office in a western province in an apparent assassination attempt. Malalai Joya is a former Afghan lawmaker and vocal critic of corruption and criminality in the Afghan government, as well as the Taliban. She says the overnight attack on her office in Farah province was the sixth attempt on her life. Full news...
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March 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AO/HJL: At least four civilians have been killed and two others injured in a US-led airstrike in the northeastern Kapisa province in Afghanistan, Press TV reports. US-led forces targeted the Ibrahim Khil region in the town of Tagab in the Kapisa province Saturday evening, Tagab governor Abdolhakim said. Full news...
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March 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: The image of Afghan women wearing police and army uniforms is meant to inspire pride and hope for a future where the rights of women will be protected in Afghanistan. So why would female police officers in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif be ashamed to admit they wear the badge? “Except my very close family members, no one really knows that I am a police officer,” said one woman at a NATO training session. Full news...
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March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Flayed by a fire she began herself, Aatifa’s childlike frame is painstakingly wrapped in thick bandages -- her shrieks of “Allah” echoing around the hospital ward where surgeons prepare to graft skin back on to her skeletal torso. Her wide blue eyes alternating between flashes of anger and wells of tears, the 16-year-old Afghan girl struggles to explain what led her to douse her own body in petrol, step outside and light a match. Full news...
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March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
USA Today: Ahmad Jan lives just a few miles from the capital of this restive province and its government-sanctioned court. Even so, if he or his neighbors have a legal matter, they prefer to go to the Taliban or tribal elders for a ruling. “The Taliban courts don't disturb people and tell them to wait for a long time before hearing a case, or demand bribes,” says Jan, an out-of-work laborer. Full news...
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March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is investigating allegations that some officials in the Afghan Air Force, which was established largely with American funds, have been using aircraft to ferry narcotics and illegal weapons around the country, American officials told The Wall Street Journal. Two probes of the Afghan Air Force, or AAF, are under way—one led by the U.S. military coalition and another by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said. Full news...
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March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: For the residents of the Charahi Qambar refugee camp, it’s been a long five years since they fled the U.S.-led destruction of their villages and put up tents in this destitute Kabul neighborhood. The majority is of Pashtun descent, from Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, a warlord-torn region notorious for opium production. Full news...
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March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan’s president endorsed a “code of conduct” issued by an influential council of clerics which activists say represents a giant step backward for women’s rights in the country. President Hamid Karzai’s remarks backing the Ulema Council’s document, which allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes, is seen as reaching out to insurgents like the Taliban. Full news...
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March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 42 people have been killed and many more are missing in an avalanche in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province. The provincial governor’s office said that one village near the Tajikistan border had been completely swept away. The number of people killed in the village in Shekay district is expected to rise, a spokesman for the governor told the BBC. Full news...
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March 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male guardian when they travel, according to new guidelines from Afghanistan's top clerics which critics say are dangerously reminiscent of the Taliban era. The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks... Full news...
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March 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, a report said Monday, despite billions of dollars in aid that have poured into the war-torn country. More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government. Full news...
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March 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 12-year-old girl on Thursday complained she had been sent to jail after being raped by her neighbour in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province. But prosecutors said that the girl and her two brothers were taken into custody after the alleged rapist, 21 years old, was publicly sodomised. Full news...
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February 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Nasreen, a young girl was murdered by local strongmen on February 25, 2012 in Anchagal village, Naray district in Kunar province. The killing was over family disputes that were not made clear. Three years ago the same people shot her with an AK-47 which severely injured her but her brother, Nematullah, saved her by taking her to a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Channel 4 News: You never have to wander far from your front door in Kabul to be confronted by the dire poverty in a city where billions have been spent in foreign aid over the past decade of occupation by the west. Where an entire sub-economy has grown up around the semi-permanent presence of foreign NGOs. Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between 850,000 USD and 1.4 million USD a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up. During a budget hearing today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota, asked Department of Defense leaders, “What is the cost per soldier, to maintain a soldier for a year in Afghanistan?” Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: On my way home from work one day, I was on a Kabul bus listening to my fellow-passengers chat about the current spate of robberies and kidnappings. They said that far from trusting the police, they believed that some security officers and senior government officials were involved in these crimes. I was intrigued by this, as public faith in the Afghan government and its armed forces seems to have steadily decreased over the past ten years. Full news...
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