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Britain offers visas to its Afghan interpreters
LONDON (Reuters) - Around 600 interpreters who serve alongside British soldiers in Afghanistan are to be offered visas to live in the UK, in a softening of the government's previous policy of encouraging them to stay in the country after British troops ...
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Afghanistan Suicide bomber kills anti-Taliban village elder 3 others in busy market
KABUL - A suicide bomber on foot killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in a busy marketplace Wednesday in central Afghanistan, the latest in a wave of assassinations and bombings. Habibullah Khan was killed along with two bodyguards and a civilian bystander in the afternoon attack in Ghazni province's Moqur district, police said. At least 14 civilians were ...
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Why Afghanistan is nervous about the US troop withdrawal
A US soldier secures the area where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Next year will mark the end of NATO's combat mission in Afghanistan. By December 2014 the US and other foreign troops still here will be ...
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Afghan suicide blast kills 7 officials
A TEENAGE suicide bomber killed seven people in central Afghanistan when he targeted local fighters who battle against Taliban insurgents, officials say. The attacker detonated himself in a market place in Ghazni province, two days after another bomber struck outside government buildings in the north of Afghanistan, killing 14 people, including a provincial politician. "At around 5pm, an ...
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Imran Khans PTI seeks pro-Taliban clerics help to initiate peace talks with outfit
Peshawar, May 22 : The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has sought the help of an elderly pro-Taliban cleric to initiate peace talks with the militants, party officials have ...
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Pakistan influence on Taliban important for peace process Karzai
New Delhi, May 22 : Asserting that Pakistan is an important element in maintaining peace in Afghanistan, visiting President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday it would be difficult to fight terrorism without Islamabad's cooperation because it has influence over ...
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101st brigades among last in eastern Afghanistan
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan - When the 4th Brigade Combat Team from the 101st Airborne Division took control over three key provinces in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, they were likely the last American combat brigade in the area now that the U.S. is handing over responsibility for security to the Afghans.On Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost Province, leaders of the ...
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India will do all in its power to promote Afghan stability
India said on Wednesday it will do all within its means to promote stability inAfghanistan after visiting President Hamid Karzai said he had given a military "wishlist" to the Indian ...
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Afghan interpreters win right to new life in Britain
Afghanistan Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn.Prime minister David Cameron had initially decided to discourage the interpreters from settling in Britain for fear of the message it would send out about the stability of Afghanistan as foreign forces pull out.Many of the Afghans ...
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Body of tortured Afghan unearthed near former US Special Forces base - report
USA Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base - where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim. Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious wartime collaborator who Afghan officials believe has ...
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Deaths injuries reported from explosions reported across Afghanistan
Explosions in southern and western Afghanistan killed four people and wounded five others, local authorities said Wednesday. In Helmand province, officials said a civilian died and three others were injured from an explosion near a private hospital in Nad-e-Ali district Wednesday, Khaama Press reported. Three Afghan civilians were killed and two others were injured when a roadside bomb ...
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Afghan President Asks India for Military Aid
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given a "wish list" of military equipment to India in hopes of securing more aid before international troops leave his country next ...
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Moving mountains The Afghan-American best-selling author Khaled Hosseini on his new novel
His amazing run continued on Tuesday night as he appeared before an overflowing crowd at a bookshop in New York City. With some 300 people seated before him, and dozens more watching on a video screen a floor below, Hosseini spoke for about 40 minutes about his new ...
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By branding the Taliban ‘terrorists’ Canada gave up on Afghan peace
addition of the Afghan Taliban to Canada's list of terrorist entities came as a surprise. More than a surprise, it was disheartening. After more than a decade of engagement in Afghanistan, the Harper government has indicated it is no longer interested in finding a path to ...
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Combined Force Arrests Taliban Leader in Helmand Province
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 22, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and four other insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Afghanistan's Helmand province today, military officials reported. The leader plans, directs and executes attacks against Afghan and coalition ...
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Britain to finalize UK relocation plans for Afghan interpreters who worked on front line
LONDON - Britain is proposing to give around 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside its troops the right to settle in the U.K. in recognition of the risks to their personal safety. The plans, released Wednesday, will allow interpreters who have worked on the front lines in Afghanistan for more than a year to relocate to Britain on a five-year visa. Those who do not meet the requirement ...
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Hard-line students in Afghanistan protest womens rights decree as un-Islamic demand repeal
KABUL - Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women. The protest came days after conservative ...
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‘Exhausted’ Karzai wants to retire
New Delhi - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday that he was ';exhausted'; and wanted to retire from politics at the end of his current ...
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Afghanistan’s Karzai Says ‘No Circumstances’ Allow Him to Seek Another Term
NEW DELHI -- Seeking to dispel widespread rumors that he would find a way to cling to power beyond the end of his second term next year, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said Wednesday that there was "no circumstance that will allow me to stay as ...
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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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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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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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