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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation. He can’t find a job for his eldest son, who “even knows computers,” without paying a bribe. He can't afford uniforms, books or pencils for his nine daughters to go to school. And so they all live with him in the old cinema, where mangled rebars dangle like tentacles from the ceiling and a cold wind whips through windows with no glass. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Morning Star: Every day in Afghanistan there are 40 raids carried out by occupying troops on homes of people suspected of “terrorism” or “insurgency.” So every day 40 families suffer the indignity, humiliation and resentment that accompanies the targeting of those classed as terrorists. Afghanistan’s population is comparable to that of the US state of Texas. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of western Ghor province approach local militant commanders for dispute resolution as a result of closure of five district courts. Because of insecurity, courts in Charsadda, Dulina, Pasaband, Saghar and Shahrak districts have been shifted to the provincial capital. Resident Mohammadullah said the Shahrak district court was transferred to Chaghcharan due to deteriorating security, forcing people to take their cases to local commanders. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Warlords are trying to prepare owner documents of the land they have already grabbed in northern Baghlan province, the mayor said on Tuesday. Dozens of acres of land had been grabbed in Pul-i-Khumri by the strongmen, who were forcing municipal officials to give them ownership documents, Sahib Nazar Sangin told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time (Blog): On Nov. 30, 2009, in the shadow of mountains that crumple up 9,000-ft. ridges, an Afghan mercenary bankrolled by the U.S. military and hell-bent on the destruction of Taliban rebels allegedly stopped three men heading home to celebrate ’Id ul-Qurban with their families. According to an elder from Bermal, the Afghan district where the incident took place, Commander Azizullah and his men bound their hands. Full news...
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October 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: The standard of Afghanistan’s security forces is slowly improving but they still stand accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture, according to a new study. The study, by Oxfam, found that although there had been slight improvements in training and education in the past few months, there are still serious doubts... Full news...
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October 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ICRC: Ten years after the start of a new chapter in Afghanistan’s 30-year war, Afghans remain caught in the midst of continued armed violence. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), security and health care are the biggest humanitarian problems facing the people of Afghanistan today. "Despite improvements in the quality of life for certain sectors of the population over the past decade... Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: While Sharia law courts have created a lot of controversy in Britain, they would be even more controversial if people found out that Sharia has led to the legalisation of child marriage in 6 countries. As the vast majority of people seem to be unaware of Sharia’s child marriage dimension, this article only uses mainstream media articles, the UN, a major opinion poll company’s Sharia law polling data... Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: It is strange that some communists have decided to make common cause with Islamists against democracies, because Al-Qaeda’s murderous ideology, which influences other Islamists, was partly inspired by the murderous fascist ideology of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, as I will now explain. Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World War 4 Report: It is nonetheless sickening for being de rigueur to hear Barack Obama mourning the death of the war criminal Burhanuddin Rabbani as a “tragic loss.” Rabbani had recently been appointed to lead a “High Peace Council” to start negotiations with the Taliban. He was killed at his home in Kabul by a visitor with explosives hidden in his turban. Full news...
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October 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An armed commander order the execution of a man in front of hundreds of residents in western Ghor province, an official said on Saturday. Nawroz, a resident of Shahrak district, allegedly killed Juma Gul, with whose wife he had illicit relations, an official told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. Full news...
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September 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghan and foreign forces killed 19 civilians, including women and children, during an operation on Sept. 20 in eastern Nuristan province, a parliamentarian said on Wednesday. Militants had fled the Want Waigal district before the operation was launched, a Wolesi Jirga member from the province, Maulvi Ahadullah Mowahid, told a press conference in Kabul. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBC News: Human rights lawyers often refer to it as “the other Guantanamo,” “Guantanamo’s evil twin” or “Obama’s Gitmo” — an attempt to raise the profile of the U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan that few know about. It’s official name is the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. And even though it was recently rebuilt and renamed the Detention Facility in Parwan, after the province, most continue to refer to it simply as Bagram. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women’s rights have been central to the war in Afghanistan. Remember when Cherie Blair and Laura Bush joined forces to bolster the rationale for invasion back in 2001? Suddenly, the west developed a passionate concern for the position of women in the country; there were films, books and documentaries about the high rates of maternal mortality, girls being married off young and low levels of female literacy. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Atlantic: The U.S. employs a former drug-running warlord who uses torture and intimidation as regular city policing tactics as the acting police chief of Kandahar, according to an in-depth profile by Matthieu Aikins in the November issue of The Atlantic that went online on Monday. He’s also thought to be responsible for mass murder. Abdul Raziq, now a brigadier general on a direct order from President Hamid Karzai... Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man axed his wife to death by chopping off her fingers and toes in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, an official said on Monday. The killer, who managed to flee the area after perpetrating the murder, was arrested late on Sunday and confessed to his crime during preliminary interrogations. Acting police chief, Col. Mohammad Kabir, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place on the outskirts of Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan. Full news...
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September 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Pakistan army fired more than 300 artillery shells into eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces, causing human and property losses, officials said on Saturday. About 250 shells of long-range artillery were fired into Dangam district over the past two days from Dir, Kunar Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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September 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The current dry spell sweeping across Afghanistan’s northern, northeastern and western provinces could lead to a large-scale food crisis and the humanitarian community should act quickly to ensure this does not degenerate into a disaster, government and aid officials warn. "The issue is very serious. Every other year drought or other natural disaster puts millions of people into food insecurity,"... Full news...
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September 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Over the past year, US and NATO forces say they have made considerable progress against the Afghan insurgency through the use of night raids. But a new study suggests that the long-controversial nighttime operations are doing more harm than good. Despite a sharp rise in the number of night raids, there have been no benefits in the form of decreased insurgent attacks... Full news...
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September 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Human rights officials in Afghanistan have endorsed earlier findings suggesting that endemic violence is inflicting considerable psychological trauma and distress on children in that country, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports.Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul told RFE/RL that many Afghan children have witnessed acts of violence... Full news...
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September 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Bloody Crossroads: In her book, A Woman among Warlords, Malalai Joya speaks out on the real purpose of the United States’ occupation, and the war’s disastrous consequences. The Afghanistan war is not the good war we should have fought instead of Iraq. It is not about making us safer from terrorism. It is not about suffocating the rising tide of Islamic extremism. It is not about spreading women’s rights. Full news...
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September 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Client News: Nabil Miskinyar is the founder and president of Zaland.net and Ariana Afghanistan Television, a leading source of news on Afghanistan. The following is his statement: On Sunday, September 11, 2011, I attended a dinner with Dr. Ramazan Bashardost - a former planning minister and current member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan – who requested I meet with representatives from Emrooz Television the next day to discuss a possible business partnership... Full news...
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September 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PTI: US President Barack Obama has identified 22 countries, including India, Pakistan and Afghanistan as major drug transit or illegal drug producing countries. In a presidential determination, Obama designated Bolivia Myanmar and Venezuela as the three countries that have demonstrably failed, during the previous 12 months, to make substantial efforts to adhere to their obligations under international counter narcotic agreements. Full news...
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September 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Khanashin carbonatites in southern Helmand Province have an estimated one million metric tonnes of rare earth material, according to a US Geological Survey (USGS) estimate. This estimate came on Wednesday from a 2009-2011 USGS study, funded by the Department of Defence Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO). Full news...
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September 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The military’s battle against contracting corruption in war zones is coming under scrutiny from lawmakers troubled by a Pentagon decision not to ban an Afghan-owned company from doing business with the U.S. after the firm was accused of operating an illicit protection racket. Full news...
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September 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: As I finished a meal with Helmand’s wizened yet progressive chief justice, grandstanding chief prosecutor and rather disengaged justice department director in Lashkar Gah, the challenge of trying to provide non-Taliban justice in a country ravaged by 30 years of war, in one of its most hostile and drug-ridden provinces, began to sink in. Full news...
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September 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Militias and some units of the new local police in Afghanistan are committing serious human rights abuses, a Human Rights Watch report has said. It says that they are responsible for crimes including killings, rape, arbitrary detention, abductions and forcible land grabs. The report says the Afghan government has failed to hold the militias properly to account. Full news...
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September 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Inmates at a new model prison in Uruzgan province say conditions are poor, with inadequate nutrition and inhumane conditions. Local officials accept that there are problems but say they are trying to sort them out. Inmates were transferred into the purpose-built prison in the main provincial town, Tarin Kowt, two months ago, from the old, cramped facilities where they were held previously. There are currently 130, all male. Full news...
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September 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: The Afghanistan Embassy in Norway apparently gave a frank character assessment of the Minister for Counter Narcotics when it posted the following biography: Zarar Ahmad Moqbel was born in 1966 in Parwan central province. He studied at the Habibia High School before doing graduation from the Pedagogy Institute in his native province. Full news...
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