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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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Body of Footless Torture Victim Unearthed Near US Special Forces Base in Afghanistan
Laborers digging a water ditch just 200 yards from a former US Special Forces outpost in Afghanistan have discovered the body of a missing Afghan man, Sayid Mohammad, who was last seen being taken to the base after being taken into custody by men associated with the US ...
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11 Afghan police killed in latest violence
The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they traveled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack. The officers were from the Afghan Public Protection Force, a government-run force that provides security for international supply convoys, aid groups and foreign-funded reconstruction sites. The blast ripped through the vehicle as the men were ...
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Chronicling thirty years of upheaval in Afghanistan’s Garmser district
Carter Malkasian, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier. (London: C Hurst & Co Publishers; New York: Oxford University Press, ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2091
As of Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at least 2,091 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Pakistans new leader offers talks to Taliban
By Wajahat S. Khan, Producer, NBC News ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's prime minister designate Nawaz Sharif told a packed hall of his party stalwarts that talks with the Taliban -- who have been fighting the state for almost a decade -- are not off the table."All options should be tried, and guns and bullets are not a solution to all problems … Why shouldn't we sit and talk and ...
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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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Women getting jailed for moral crimes see an alarming rise in Afghanistan
The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for "moral crimes," Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.Statistics from Afghanistan's interior ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for "moral crimes" had risen to about 600 in May 2013 from 400 in October 2011 - a 50 per cent rise. Since ...
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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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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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