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Head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists Businessmens Association was kidnapped…
KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women’s rights
In this April, 2013 file photo, an Afghan woman peers through the the eye slit of her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on May 18, 2013 that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside ...
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Afghan MPs stall on womens rights
The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a benchmark piece of legislation marking progress since the fall of the Taliban regime nearly 12 years ago.But ratification by parliament was postponed after several MPs branded the bill as against Sharia law - the Islamic teachings drawn from the Koran, the Prophet Mohammad and ...
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Efforts to Strengthen Afghan Law on Women May Backfire
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Female politicians help block womens rights legislation in Afghanistan
Conservative religious politicians in Afghanistan blocked legislation today aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.The fierce opposition highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ousting of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam once ...
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Afghan Police chief shot dead An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house.
anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house. Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car when the two raced up and opened fire in Farah province. Provincial ...
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Police Officers Are Targets in Wave of Afghan Violence
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Endgame Afghanistan Indias worries
Kabul: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai will be on a two-day visit to India starting Monday. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on enhancing strategic ties, security and developmental work in the run-up to next year's withdrawal of western troops. As Afghanistan braces for 2014, we travelled extensively in the AfPak region to find out whether the proposed end of ...
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Afghan womens rights debate put on hold amid bickering
A debate in parliament on a proposed law to prevent violence against women was put on hold Saturday amid bickering by Afghan lawmakers, officials said. The law banning violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages was passed by decree in 2009 by ...
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Two Blasts Kill Dozens in Afghanistan
Kabul, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Two explosions in the eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika killed and injured dozens of people, police sources reported today. According to Head of Security in Khost province Mohammad Yagoub, a borderguard died and three were wounded by a blast in the eastern area of the capital, while six civilians were also injured. On the other hand, a blast killed a person and ...
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Afghanistan Blocks Law Protecting Women
Afghanistan's parliament has blocked a law banning violence against women in what is being seen as a serious blow to the progress of women's rights. President Hamid Karzai approved the legislation by decree in 2009 but the country's politicians were required to endorse it. However, a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly meant the debate was ...
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Afghan law to protect womens rights blocked by opponents
An Afghan MP has accused her conservative opponents of blocking a law to protect women's rights saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.The law was enacted in 2009 by presidential decree but Fawzia Koofi wanted to cement it with a parliamentary vote to prevent its future reversal.The law bans child marriage and the practice of selling and buying women to settle disputes. Kofi said the ...
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Afghanistan fails to pass law banning violence against women
A law banning violence against women, considered a major step forward in women's rights in Afghanistan, failed to pass parliament. The law would have also created shelters for abused women, and limited the number of wives permitted to ...
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Hardline Afghan MPs block womens law
LAWMAKERS in Afghanistan have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The move highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the Taliban, whose strict interpretation of Islam kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in their ...
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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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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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