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Afghan legislators block law protecting women
An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked approval of a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam added to the hardship in the lives of Afghan women. The law ...
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Its Artificial Afghanistan A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert
free tours, open to the public , twice a month.We made the trip, cameras in hand and notebooks at the ready, to learn more about the simulated battlefields in which imaginary conflicts loop, day after day, without ...
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India ready to consider Afghan request for arms supplies
Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...
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Afghanistan to begin first commercial oil production
Afghanistan expects to begin the first commercial oil production in its history in a little under two months. The country's mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, has told the ABC processing will start at the Amu Darya basin in Afghanistan's north in July. The project is operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation and is expected to eventually supply Afghanistan with its ...
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Two dead 13 injured in Afghanistan roadside bombs
Two people died and at least 13 were injured Saturday in two separate roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan, police said. An explosion in Khost city killed an Afghan border police guard and injured three others, as well as six civilians, provincial security chief Mohammad Yaqoub said. One person died in another explosion in eastern Paktika province in the Yahya Khel district when a tractor ...
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Afghan Mineral Treasures Stay Buried Hostages To Uncertainty
An Afghan worker helps excavate part of the mountaintop copper works above the ancient city at Mes Aynak in February. Afghanistan is believed to be sitting on massive mineral and metal deposits. But many obstacles have prevented large-scale mining from getting ...
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Afghan Police Chief Assassinated
Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...
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Afghan District Police Chief Killed
An Afghan police chief has been killed after two militants riding on motorcycles opened fire on his vehicle in western Afghanistan. Abdul Ghani, police chief of Khak-e Safid district in Farah Province, was killed instantly outside his home late on May 17. Provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said that Ghani was rushed to hospital but was declared dead upon arrival. Ghani had led ...
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Afghanistan turns to Australia for mining expertise
Afghanistan Australia could help Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The country is eager to find a new source of revenue when international aid starts to decline and foreign forces withdraw next year. Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani, has already met with various Australian Government ...
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Marine reunited with dog he handled in Afghanistan in surprise ceremony
May 17, 2013: Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines, ...
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Pak Taliban other militant outfits behind MQM leaders killing Malik
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital along with his security guard by unidentified gunmen inside Jamia Masjid on Monday. Malik said outlawed ...
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Dalton soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion
It was his first deployment, and Army Specialist Mitchell Daehling, 24 and just married, was thrilled to be shipping out to Afghanistan, following in the footsteps of his beloved maternal grandfather, a Purple Heart recipient. And Daehling had big plans for his return: He and his bride were going to throw a wedding party to celebrate after their intimate June ceremony, then go on a ...
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Pakistan summons Afghan envoy over border post firing
Pakistan on Thursday summoned Afghan Charge d'Affaires and lodged protest over unprovoked firing on a border check post, the Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Ministry said that two soldiers were injured in firing by Afghan troops late Wednesday. "The Afghan Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office today for conveying protest of the Government of Pakistan on an ...
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Minister confident about Afghan resources industry
Afghan mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, says his country has launched an aggressive program to develop a strong base for the governance of the mining ...
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ...
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Local soldier drowns in Afghanistan
A soldier from Liberty drowned Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations, the defense department announced ...
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Ky. veteran killed in Afghanistan blast
FORT THOMAS, Ky. - A Kentucky veteran who was working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan has died in an explosion in Kabul that killed at least 15 people including six Americans.The father of Michael Robert Bradford, 26, of Fort Thomas and Augusta, Ga., said his son was smart, good in different sports and about to become a father.Gary "Moose" Bradford, also of Fort Thomas, told ...
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Car bombing in Kandahar gated community connected to Karzai kills 9
the Associated Press reported . There were two vehicle IEDs (improvised explosive devices)," Javed Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial ...
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US Marines pack up as Taliban wages spring offensive
Battalion, 8th Marines, patrolled hard in the mountainous, heavily disputed Kajaki Dam area of Helmand province.Between missions, they broke their remote firebase down to the nails and plywood. They were going home. Derstine’s commanders explained that this was not your usual "RIP" or swap-out with a follow-on unit. (In the military RIP stands for "Relief in Place" ...
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Soldier from Dalton killed in Afghanistan
DALTON - A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.Officials at Fort Bliss, Texas, said 24-year-old Army Spc. Mitchell Kirk Daehling is among three soldiers killed in the Tuesday attack.Kirk Daehling said Friday he remembers his son as someone who "just loved life He always had a smile He was proud to serve ...
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Army general who served in Afghanistan is Pentagon pick to command US troops in South Korea
WASHINGTON - An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti at a Pentagon news conference Friday. The moves comes at a tense time on the Korean Peninsula. The North has stepped ...
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Russian-made helicopters to go to Afghanistan military
The Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport announced it will deliver 12 military transport helicopters to the Afghan army by the end of the year. The Mi-17V5 helicopters are part of a $367.5 million deal between the U.S. military and Rosoboronexport in 2011, an agreement that could be worth up to $900 million when spare parts and equipment servicing are included, the Afghan online ...
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Khaled Hosseini returns with a novel that embodies Afghan storytelling
Hosseini weaves a complex pattern of interlinked lives like a finely knotted carpet. This is a tale of separations, and of people searching for what they sense is missing. Parents get separated from their children. Brothers get separated from their sisters. Neighbours get separated from their friends. And at its heart, though much of the book takes place in Europe and the United ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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