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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan News.Net http://www.afghanistannews.net/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:09 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:09 -0500 30 Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the Taliban. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/611132 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:04 -0500 Afghanistan News.Net http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/611132 With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/610743 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:11 -0500 Afghanistan News.Net http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/610743 On 11 March 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070519&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:25:42 -0500 United Nations http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070519&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan360, a multimedia exhibit on Canada's civilian and military engagement in Afghanistan will be on display at the Moncton Coliseum from March 12 to March 14. Visitors will have the opportuni... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:12:14 -0500 Market Wire http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c EDITOR'S NOTE: Alfred de Montesquiou, an Associated Press correspondent embedded with U.S. Marines in the battle for the Afghan town of Marjah, was able to observe some of the lessons of the fighting ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070518&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:59:21 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070518&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Russia's envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance's battle with drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying it has led to a surge in heroin smuggling that is endangering Russia's national securit... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070293&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:59:08 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070293&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Among the three officers receiving letters of reprimand is Capt. Matthew Myer, the company commander of the unit attacked at Wanat, who was awarded the Silver Star for his brave actions in repelling t... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33069861&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:35:06 -0500 ABC News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33069861&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c India on Friday said it had agreed to “intensify” negotiations with Russia over the future of a post-Nato Afghanistan.India has been pushing for Russia to take a greater role among Kabul’s neigh... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070290&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:43 -0500 Financial Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33070290&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly objected to a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmuss... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33066673&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:13:25 -0500 Medical News Today http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33066673&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Beyond the runway at Lashkar Gar's new airstrip, Mohammad Khan stands in a mud-brick courtyard holding up his blackened hands to prove he is a motorbike mechanic.He left his home in Marjah, a farming ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067101&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:46 -0500 eTaiwan News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067101&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Karzai s... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067103&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:56:39 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067103&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067102&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:40:12 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33067102&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c meeting of the UN Committee on Narcotic Drugs ended in Vienna on March 12. Russia took part in the meeting to attract attention of the international community to the liquidation of the drug traffickin... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33066716&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:13:18 -0500 Pravda http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33066716&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday during a visit to Pakistan. Nuclear-armed... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064238&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:20 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064238&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The Department of Defense said in a news release Thursday that Sgt. Jonathan J. Richardson, 24, of Bald Knob, Ark., and Pfc. Jason M. Kropat, 25, of White Lake, N.Y., were killed Tuesday. They are bot... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064411&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:50:05 -0500 The Tennessean http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064411&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c London, Mar 12, IRNA – The Liberal Democrat’s shadow defence minister Willie Rennie has criticised the government’s plans to censor the reporting of the Afghan war in the lead up to the UK elect... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064410&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:21:29 -0500 IRNA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33064410&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c NSA Shivshankar Menon has reportedly said that the Taliban may kidnap Indian diplomats in Afghanistan. The warning has come after his recent trip to Kabul to review the security of Indians. The loomi... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33062118&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:30:27 -0500 Hindustan Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33062118&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c (RTTNews) - United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold a Situation Room meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan Friday to take stock of the recent developments following the arrest of a fe... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33062065&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:38:28 -0500 Quote.com http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33062065&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said here on Friday that terror groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan are a threat to the entire region and the world as a whole. Source: Xinhua http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33061300&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:38:15 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33061300&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c It is perhaps the only solution in the search for a better future for Afghanistan that world leaders have not yet considered: gardening. A British scientific institute is planning to set up a botanica... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33059819&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:04:55 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33059819&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL: Insurgents attacked a police post in eastern Afghanistan with guns and then detonated a roadside bomb as reinforcements sped to the scene, killing three members of an elite strike force, police... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33059237&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:01:54 -0500 Arab News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33059237&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c New York, Mar.12 : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai might have described Pakistan and Afghanistan as 'co-joined' twins, but experts believe that there is underlying tension simmering between both na... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057821&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:30:23 -0500 New Kerala http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057821&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A fghan prison conditions are horrific, torture is common and police frequently rape female detainees, the U.S. State Department finds in its annual survey of human rights. The damning report pai... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057819&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:18 -0500 The Globe and Mail http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057819&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Six weeks ago, elders of the Shinwari tribe, which dominates a large area in southeastern Afghanistan, pledged that they would set aside internal differences to focus on fight... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057820&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:48:01 -0500 MSNBC http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33057820&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A fghan prison conditions are horrific, torture is common and police frequently rape female detainees, the U.S. State Department finds in its annual survey of human rights. The damning report pai... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055460&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:12:04 -0500 Globe and Mail http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055460&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055443&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:42 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055443&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055594&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:30 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055594&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055678&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:25 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055678&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL (AP) - Insurgents attacked a police post in eastern Afghanistan with guns and then detonated a roadside bomb as reinforcements sped to the scene, killing three members of an elite strike force, ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055179&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:07:00 -0500 Find Law http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33055179&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ISLAMABAD: The General Headquarters in Rawalpindi maintained a stony silence as their aspirations to have Afghan soldiers trained by the Pakistan Army appeared to have been politely turned down by Pre... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33053631&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:16 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33053631&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c WASHINGTON: The House of Representatives has roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all the US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strateg... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33053632&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:14 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33053632&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Karzai Meets With Top Officials in Pakistan (March 12, 2010) This week, that commitment seemed less important as two Shinwari subtribes took up arms to fight each other over an ancient land dispute... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33051379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:48:28 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33051379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Karzai Meets With Top Officials in Pakistan (March 12, 2010) This week, that commitment seemed less important as two Shinwari subtribes took up arms to fight each other over an ancient land dispute... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33048997&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:49:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33048997&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33049528&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:19:05 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33049528&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The Swedish artist who drew a caricature depicting Muhammad as a dog says artistic freedom should allow mockery of all religions. Lars Vilks, the target of an alleged murder plot involving a woman cal... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33049527&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:53:10 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33049527&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The military says two Fort Campbell soldiers were killed during an attack in eastern Afghanistan this week. The Department of Defense said in a news release Thursday that 24-year-old Sgt. Jonathan J.... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047742&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:21:36 -0500 WBIR http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047742&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c CAMP DUBS, Afghanistan (AP): The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to r... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047745&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:48 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047745&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KHOST (AIP): Two workers of a road construction company were killed and two others sustained injuries in an attack in Dargai district of southeastern Khost province on Thursday, an official said Thurs... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047746&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:48 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047746&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held a meeting with visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai here Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed various issues of... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047752&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:48 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047752&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c HERAT CITY (NNI): Construction work on a building to initiate a project for the promotion of women-made handicrafts has been launched in the western province of Herat, officials said. Financed by the... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047744&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:47 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047744&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL1 (NNI): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will receive a grant of US$ 19.5 million from the Government of Japan for the 2nd phase of the Enhancement of Li... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047747&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:47 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047747&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KHOST (AIP): A border policeman was killed and another wounded on Thursday in roadside bomb blast in the Gayan district of Paktika province, an official said Thursday. Spokesman of Paktika province, M... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047751&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:47 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047751&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL (AIP): Five Afghan civilians including four children were killed and three more wounded in a mine explosion today (March 11) in Tagab district of Kapisa province, ISAF said Thursday. The wounde... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047748&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:46 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047748&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL (NNI): Despite confrontation over nuclear issue, Middle East and numerous other international subjects, both Tehran and Washington are in consent to fight militancy in Afghanistan but their conf... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047749&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:46 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047749&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Washington (PPI): Visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for early and substantive political negotiations between Afghanistan government and the Taliban and other insurgent groups, s... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047750&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:46 -0500 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047750&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Two separate roadside bombings in Taliban hotbed Helmand province in south Afghanistan left five civilians dead on Thursday, officials said."In the first incident, which took place in Taliban for... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047740&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:39 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33047740&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will play a major role in peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, apparently trying to dismiss speculation that Kabul was trying to sideli... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33044696&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:35:55 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33044696&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as "despicable," accusing it of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33044835&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:49 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33044835&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Karzai Welcomes Pakistan's Help in Negotiating with Taliban The U.S. government's annual human rights report calls Afghanistan's human rights record poor but says much of that is because the security ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041107&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:12 -0500 VOA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041107&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c NATO allies lobbied Afghan's president for a separate legal framework to handle prisoners captured around Kandahar in late 2006 but those efforts went "nowhere," internal Canadian government memos say... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041188&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:24:28 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041188&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c NATO allies lobbied Afghan's president for a separate legal framework to handle prisoners captured around Kandahar in late 2006 but those efforts went "nowhere," internal Canadian government memos say... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041189&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:24:27 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041189&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c NATO allies lobbied Afghan's president for a separate legal framework to handle prisoners captured around Kandahar in late 2006 but those efforts went "nowhere," internal Canadian government memos say... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041185&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:24:22 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041185&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c British soldiers on a joint foot patrol with US Marines in Musa Qala, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters Control of a key town in southern http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041272&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:27 -0500 The Guardian http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=33041272&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c