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Atiq Rahimi In Iran just as well as in Afghanistan in actual fact words defy tyranny
From the Edinburgh world writers' conference in Saint-Malo, a speech on art, writing and reality from the French-Afghan author and film-maker Atiq ...
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Father of Afghan cricket captain abducted
UNKNOWN gunmen have dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and taken him hostage, officials say. Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the team in March, confirmed that his father, Khobai Isakhel, had been kidnapped in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday. "I have no idea who the kidnappers might be, they have ...
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Cameron climbdown allows Afghan interpreters into UK but theres a catch
(14 mins ago) About 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting in Afghanistan will be offered the chance to live in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed today. But they should have served at least 12 months continuously. Media reports estimate that about 600 will qualify to be resettled. British Prime Minister David Cameron had initially sought to discourage ...
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Afghan interpreters resettlement scheme does not go far enough
An Afghan interpreter with former British servicemen delivering a petition calling for asylum. It is estimated that about 600 interpreters working for UK forces will benefit from the scheme. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Afghanistan hardliners protest move to protect women from violence as rights group derides jailing of girls
KABUL, Afghanistan Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital Wednesday, demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they deem un-Islamic. More than 200 male students protested in front of Kabul University against the decree, which includes a ban on child marriage and forced marriage, makes domestic violence a crime and says rape victims cannot be ...
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12 years post-Taliban Afghan womens rights under fire
KABUL, Afghanistan Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital Wednesday, demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they deem un-Islamic. More than 200 male students protested in front of Kabul University against the decree, which includes a ban on child marriage and forced marriage, makes domestic violence a crime and says rape victims cannot be ...
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Azerbaijan to support Afghanistan after 2014
Azerbaijan will continue support to Afghanistan even after 2014. The statement came from head of the Azerbaijani office in NATO Khazar Ibrahim. "Azerbaijan is among the eight partner countries that will stay in Afghanistan after 2014", he said. Ibrahim said that peacekeeping troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan after 2014 and all military as tasks will be laid, mainly, on ...
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Britain to offer visas to Afghan interpreters
About 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in the UK, the government has said. Prime Minister David Cameron initially opposed the move, but backed down after a campaign that called for interpreters and their families to be allowed to settle under a similar package to one supporting Iraqi interpreters, and a ...
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Afghan President Karzai in India talks on defence cooperation
India News: New Delhi: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night discussing the situation in the region in the backdrop of Afghan's keenness to enhance defence cooperation with India and get supply of "lethal and non-lethal" ...
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Explosion Rocks Ghazni City in Eastern Afghanistan
Kabul, May 22 (BNA) - A relatively heavy explosion rocked Ghazni city in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. Afghan Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi confirming the report said the incident took place in a bus station, according to Afghan (Khaama Press). Officials in Ghazni state hospital said at least six people killed or injured following the blast have been taken to the ...
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Four Militants Killed in Afghanistan
Kabul, May 22 (BNA) - Four militants have been killed and seven others detained in joint operations carried out by Afghan forces and the NATO-led coalition troops within the last 48 hours in different parts of Afghanistan. The operations took place in Helmand, Paktia and Wardak provinces. Weapons were seized during the raids, (ISAF) said in a statement today. The statement did not give details ...
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Britain To Allow Afghan Interpreters To Live In Britain
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron had opposed calls to allow interpreters and their families to settle in Britain, but backed down following a ...
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Bicycle bomb kills 1 wounds 5 in Afghanistans Ghazni
One Afghan civilian was killed and five others were wounded Wednesday morning when an improvised bomb went off in Ghazni city, the provincial capital of eastern Ghazni province, police said."An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attached to a bicycle exploded at around 8:40 am local time in third police district in Ghazni city, killing one civilian and wounding five others," deputy ...
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Not enough MPs back collective asylum for Afghan interpreters
There is not enough support in parliament to ensure a collective asylum deal for Afghans who worked as interpreters for the Dutch military in Afghanistan, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. The ruling VVD and PvdA both say cases should be looked at on an individual level. 'Asylum is an individual right and needs to be judged individually,' VVD parliamentarian Han ten Broeke told the ...
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10 insurgents killed in E. Afghan raids
Ten insurgents have been killed in eastern Afghan provinces during operations started on Tuesday, said the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Wednesday."Afghan National Security and Coalition Forces killed 10 insurgents, detained four suspected insurgents and safely cleared six improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout ...
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Afghanistan imprisons victimized women
The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50 percent in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women's rights, Human Rights Watch said ...
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Afghan Interpreters to Receive British Visas
The British government says about 600 Afghan interpreters who worked with the British troops in Afghanistan will be allowed to settle in ...
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Memo From Afghanistan In Afghanistan Hezb-i-Islami Takes Its Extremism Into Politics
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Afghan interpreters can come to UK
About half the staff working with UK forces are expected to be granted visas in recognition of risks to their personal safety.The proposals could see all interpreters who have been in the job more than 12 months and put themselves in physical danger offered a resettlement package.They will need to have worked between December 2012 and December 2014, when troops are due to leave, to be ...
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Australia waits on US-Afghan decision
Australia is still waiting on the US to decide its post-2014 troop commitment to Afghanistan before announcing how many Australian troops will remain, Defence Minister Stephen Smith says.Speaking after meeting US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in Washington, Mr Smith said Australia remained willing to assist with training of Afghan officers.Australia was also ready to contribute special forces to ...
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600 interpreters will be allowed to move to UK as reward for assisting British forces in Afghanistan
About 600 Afghan interpreters that put themselves in danger for British forces are to be given settlement rights in the UK, it was ...
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Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain
About half the Afghan interpreters risking their lives for British troops are to be given settlement rights in the UK under a reworked package prepared by the coalition government.The package represents a climbdown from earlier suggestions that most interpreters would have to risk reprisals as collaborators by the Taliban after coalition forces leave a still unstable country at the end of ...
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Which Is More Corrupt Afghanistan or America
KABUL, Afghanistan -- None of President Hamid Karzai's top advisers knew that he had been receiving tens of millions of dollars in secret cash from the CIA, Afghanistan's senior anticorruption official said, and he added that he did not believe the Afghan leader's claim that he had been giving the agency regular receipts for the money. Mohammad Yasin Osmani, the head of the ...
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Delay in mine project shadows hopes for Afghan economy
KABUL, Afghanistan - The giant copper mine that the Afghan government has made the centerpiece of its plans for building an economy nearly from scratch is at least five years behind schedule and the state-owned Chinese company that won the bidding has missed key deadlines in its still-secret contract with the Afghan government and is trying to renegotiate the deal, according to several officials ...
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Afghanistan - Radio station technician and host murdered in Afghanistan
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home on 20 May 2013, 18 days after he disappeared.Hashemi was apparently shot in the head the day after he went missing. His body also bore the marks of blows."We offer our condolences to his family and ...
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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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