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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Vancouver Sun: Despite all the evidence that continuing to stay in this benighted country is worse than pointless, despite the fact that the majority of Canadians want to get out sooner rather than later and despite the fact that even Stephen Harper recognizes that the Karzai regime is one of the most repugnant and corrupt Canadians have ever been asked to support we are unable as a nation to extricate ourselves from this deadly mess. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ENS: Mohammad Aref and his family are not looking forward to the Kabul summer. Last year, it meant stifling months shut up in the family home in the Khair Khana district, trying to avoid the fetid smell wafting in from the piles of rubbish in the surrounding streets. “We could not open windows to let in fresh air in any of the rooms all through the summer,” the 40-year-old said. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: The number of civilian casualties has been soaring in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan as Interior Ministry had registered 38 civilian fatalities in the past one week, spokesman for the ministry Zamarai Bashari said Sunday. “In the past one week a total of 38 civilians had been killed across the country that indicates 31 percent rise in compare with the previous week,” Bashari told a weekly press briefing here. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mirror: THE war on terror is taking its toll on the mental state of British troops with a dramatic rise in the number seeking psychiatric help. The daily threat of roadside bombs, fierce gun battles and seeing comrades killed or horrifically maimed in the blood and dust of Afghanistan has led to a steep increase in the number of personnel suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were “unjustifiable homicides”. In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustified from the very beginning. - LMB Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: In a far flung corner of northern Afghanistan, Aziza reaches into the dark wooden cupboard, rummages around, and pulls out a small lump of something wrapped in plastic. She unwraps it, breaking off a small chunk as if it were chocolate, and feeds it to four-year-old son, Omaidullah. It’s his breakfast -- a lump of pure opium. Full news...
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January 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The world’s deadliest pollution does not come from factories billowing smoke, industries tainting water supplies or chemicals seeping into farm land. It comes from within people’s own homes. Smoke from domestic fires kills nearly two million people each year and sickens millions more, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman lost her life when a vehicle of international forces overran her in western Herat province, an official said on Saturday. The accident happened in Guzara district at 8pm when the woman crossing the road was hit by a vehicle of NATO-led forces, police spokesman, Col. Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show “unjustified homicide” of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. Full news...
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January 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Farooq Wardak, the Afghan education minister and a key ally of President Hamid Karzai, claims that the Taliban leadership no longer opposes education for girls. The question is not whether this claim is true – teachers and students who continue to be terrorised by Taliban attacks would find it laughable – but why a senior Afghan official would engage in such misinformation. Full news...
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January 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Shahbaz stands at the Kotai Sangi junction in Kabul with a set of builder’s tools, just as he does every day, hoping someone will take him on. “I have nine family members and I need to earn some money to feed my children,” he told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). “But there isn’t any work. I come in the morning and leave in the evening just like that.” Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: The Obama administration’s effort to persist in carrying out a deadly war in Afghanistan outside the public’s eye has been succeeding. Three means are employed: tight control over news flowing out of Afghanistan; vastly greater reliance upon secretive night raids by U.S. Special Forces; and a stepped-up use of private contractors/mercenaries on the ground in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say. In a bid to counter the intensifying insurgency, the Afghan government and US/NATO forces have been setting up controversial community-based militias, such as the Afghan Local Police, in insecure provinces. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women’s rights at the women’s ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure. One of the women, Marina, 20, told this IWPR reporter that her family married her off when she was 14 to a drug-addict twice her age. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: International partners teamed up with Afghan leaders to discuss the seriousness of food security issues in the country, the World Food Program said. Louis Imbleau, the WFP representative in Afghanistan, met with Afghan leaders in Kabul to discuss bilateral measures needed to address food shortages in the war-torn country. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A roadside bomb has killed 13 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said. The interior ministry said in a statement that the vehicle, a motorised rickshaw, was hit in the morning. The dead include women and children. The attack took place in Khoshamand district in Paktika province. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Demotix: A growing number of Afghans — including children — are escaping the pain of war and poverty by using opium or heroin, for as little as a dollar a day. Experts say that the alarming trend is not being addressed by the Afghan government and its international partners, even though most officials acknowledge that the drug scourge threatens lasting stability in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Newsmax: After no fewer than 10 quarterly reports to Congress, 40 percent of 56 billion USD allocated to civilian projects in Afghanistan, or 22.4 billion USD in U.S. taxpayer funds, cannot be accounted for by SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction. The original amount for civilian aid is being increased to 71 billion USD. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: US public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to the lowest level since Barack Obama became president, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey by Quinnipiac University showed voters said by a 51 to 41 percent margin than the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan. Still, the respondents said by a 46 to 40 percent margin that they approved of Obama’s handling the situation in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Mullah Omar, the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, had a heart attack Jan. 7 and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan’s spy agency, according to a private intelligence network run by former CIA, State Department and military officers. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led soldiers killed six members of a family during an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a provincial council member alleged on Sunday. But the alliance rejected the allegation as baseless. The overnight bombardment took place in the Kodi area of Asmar district, bordering Pakistan, Haji Sultan Siddiqui told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Frontline: In a country with deep rooted religious and social norms, it is baffling to see how young boys are readily available for sexual abuse. A documentary secretly filmed by an Afghan journalist exposes the heart wrenching custom where young Afghan boys are bought as sexual slaves for the rich. Full news...
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January 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Euorope: Back in 2002, the Indian writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly satirised the official excuses for the invasion of Afghanistan . “It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas,” she said. “We are being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission.” Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: No education, lack of food and winter clothes. In Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, hundreds of war displaced children and their families are crying for relief assistance from the government. Currently, there are 804 families living in the slum, in west of the city, with the largest family of 15 children. “We do not have enough food and clothes. We need help,” said Wakiltawos Khan, head of the slum. Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: cargo ship rescued scores of Afghan migrants in heavy seas off the Greek island of Corfu Sunday following a night of drama, but survivors said 21 more were missing after falling overboard. Rescue services were alerted during the night after the 35-metre (114-foot) Hasan Reis vessel packed with more than 200 migrants, including women and children, reported it was taking on water, said the merchant marine ministry in a statement. Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Nine wedding guests, including a child, are among the victims. Insurgents target Western troops with the homemade bombs, but usually it’s civilians who are killed or maimed. Civilians are dying in record numbers as the war in Afghanistan grinds into its 10th year, and crude but powerful homemade bombs are the greatest hazard facing them. Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. “The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in need. Access for the ICRC has over the last 30 years never been as poor,” said Reto Stocker... Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: More than 500 people have protested in Herat against Iran’s weeks-long blockage of hundreds of fuel tankers seeking to enter Afghanistan, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. Protesters told RFE/RL that Iran’s actions have created painful fuel shortages at a time of high demand during winter. Full news...
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January 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Aljazeera: “At night, they come out on the roads with their faces covered,” said Obaid Sediq, a resident of Central Baghlan in northeastern Afghanistan. “Many times they have stopped our car and emptied our pockets. They have guns and you can't say anything back.” The Arbakai, semi-official local militias, have committed tremendous abuses in Afghanistan’s northeastern provinces of Kunduz and Baghlan. Full news...
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January 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Early each morning, the schoolchildren of the Aqibi Silo neighborhood emerge from their homes on a hillside near the center of Kabul.But they don’t go to class. Instead, they go off to fetch water -- over and over again -- until long after the school day is done. They begin by tumbling down the narrow footpaths carrying brightly colored plastic canisters as light as balloons. Full news...
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