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Dining Out Afghan Chopan Kebab House offers comfort food
afghanchopankebab.ca Dinner for two without tip: About $40-----EDMONTON - I awoke on a recent spring morning and looked out the window only to discover snow-lined tree tops and winds as strong as my desire for comfort and warmth. With a sigh, I found my woollies and succumbed to winter's grip.Hoping to find solace in a helping of homestyle comfort food straight from the streets of Kabul, I ...
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Kyrgyz leader says US Manas air base will close in 2014 base supports Afghanistan operation
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby Afghanistan. President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut the Manas Transit Center next year, dismissing U.S. assumptions the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States pays $60 ...
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Kyrgyzstan shutting down key US route to Afghanistan
President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut down the Manas Transit Center in 2014, dismissing U.S. assumptions that the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States currently pays $60 million annually for the base.Atambayev said the Kyrgyz Cabinet had drafted a bill on the base closure and submitted it to parliament. He said Kyrgyzstan would compensate for the ...
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Karzai seeks Indian military aid to fill gap left by Nato
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai (second from left) receives an honourary degree from his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee at the Lovely Professional University on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of ...
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India offers more aid for rebuilding Afghanistan
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, right, listens to Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the Indian Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Karzai is meeting with Indian leaders and is expected to seek increased military aid from India. India has invested more than $2 billion in Afghan infrastructure, including highways and hospitals and rural electricity ...
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Increasing Numbers of Afghan Women Jailed for Moral Crimes
Kabul, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed today that the number of women and girls in prison in this country for so-called moral crimes has increased by 50 percent over the last eight months. According to official data published on the Khaama Press website, in October 2012, about 400 women were jailed for escaping from their homes or having extra-marital sex, in ...
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7 Afghan police officers killed in blast
-- Seven police officers were killed in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when a police vehicle struck a roadside explosive, a Herat province spokesman ...
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Afghan president expected to seek military aid during visit to India
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, right, listens to Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the Indian Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Karzai is meeting with Indian leaders and is expected to seek increased military aid from India. India has invested more than $2 billion in Afghan infrastructure, including highways and hospitals and rural electricity ...
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India would stand by Afghanistan in its transition Prez
Bullion traders say the refining of these impure gold bars will be a new line of business in India and jewellers may also look at setting up refineries to ensure a steady supply of the ...
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Afghanistan Sees Sharp Rise in Women Imprisoned for Moral Crimes
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost 12 years ago. Running away from home, usually from abuse and forced marriage, and alleged adultery, which often involves rape, have landed most of the 600 women in prison. That figure is an increase of 50 percent over the last 18 months. "That increase reflects a shameful lack and ...
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Afghanistan Deadly 24 hours leave 14 police dead
KABUL, Afghanistan -; A coordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the insurgents back, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Also, at least 10 other police died in two attacks in the country's ...
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Media Watchdog Calls For Probe Into Afghan Journalists Murder
KABUL -- A leading press freedom organization in Afghanistan, Nai, has demanded an investigation into the killing of a journalist who was found dead after being missing for weeks. In a statement, Nai called on Afghan authorities to probe the murder of Mohammad Mohsin Hashimi in northern Kapisa Province. Abdul Woudod Haideri, district governor of Nijrab in Kapisa, told RFE/RL's Radio ...
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U.N. urges Afghanistan to protect women
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is urging authorities to fully implement the Elimination of Violence Against Women law, a news release states. "Progress in implementing the EVAW law contributes to deterring harmful practices and protecting women from violence in their daily lives," said the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of ...
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More Afghan women jailed for ‘moral crimes’ HRW
Female Afghan prisoners play volleyball at a prison in the eastern Afghan city of Herat on July 2, 2010. There are 110 women inmates at the main Herat ...
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Coordinated Taliban attacks in Afghan south kill six policemen
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of Taliban insurgents launched coordinated attacks on Afghan checkpoints in the south on Tuesday, killing at least six Afghan policemen, officials said, adding that a clash was going ...
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President Karzai to Discuss Enhancing Defense Ties with India
Afghan President Hamid Karzai receives an honorary degree from his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, second right, at the Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, India, May 20, ...
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Combined Force Wounds Taliban Leader Arrests Insurgent
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force wounded a senior Taliban leader and arrested another insurgent in the Zharay district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported. The Taliban leader, who was wounded after he attacked the security force, is ...
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Chinas Strategy in Afghanistan
An Afghan man rides his bike past a China Merchandise Trade Center in Kabul, Afghanistan.(Musadeq Sadeq/AP) For a relatively small drilling operation, China National Petroleum Corporation's (CNPC) project in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province has a large footprint. Several layers of fences and containers serving as blast walls surround the extraction site, which includes dormitories, an ...
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Dozens of deaths reported in fighting in western southern Afghanistan
A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military ...
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Coalition Downplays Afghan Reports of Major Battle in Helmand
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Number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing abuse soars
Women demonstrate in Kabul: religious conservatives have blocked a landmark law protecting women from violence. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty ...
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10 Police Killed in Afghanistan
Authorities say a vehicle the police were riding in was destroyed when it hit the bomb Tuesday in the Obe district of Herat province. The police were assigned to work as guards on a dam project. There was no claim of responsibility, but similar assaults often are blamed on the Taliban. Meanwhile, a Taliban offensive in southern Afghanistan has killed four police officers. Officials say a ...
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18 militants killed in Afghan operations within day
Eighteen militants have been killed and 22 others detained in a series of operations in different Afghan provinces within the last 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Tuesday."Up to 18 armed Taliban have been killed and 22 others captured in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Zabul, Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Paktiya and Helmand provinces when Afghan National Police (ANP), supported by army ...
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Official Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in western Afghanistan
KABUL - A powerful roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle hit the explosives buried in the road, an Afghan official said. Insurgents often use makeshift land mines to target both Afghan government officials and international forces in Afghanistan. The explosives often kill civilians as well, accounting for a large percentage of Afghan civilian ...
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Pakistan PM-elect calls for Taliban talks
Pakistan's prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif Monday called for peace talks with Pakistani Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army. Speaking to the newly elected members of national and provincial assemblies belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), he said that Taliban offers to ...
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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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