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The rich culture of Central Asia, particularly the persian speaking Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan will once again be put to show on the 20th of March this year. When all the Asian republics, Afghanistan and Iran will be celebrating their new...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...
made popular Nov 21 2009
A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan.
Several...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Afghanistan’s capital Kabul remained sealed for the commoners as the country’s president was to be sworn in for a second five year’s term.
Kabul was...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Kabul will witness the oath taking ceremony of its future five year’s ruler today November 19, 2009. The attendance of regional leaders and guests from the western...
made popular Nov 19 2009
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
Army commanders should also...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Insurgents fired two rockets on Monday into a market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders. The...
made popular Nov 17 2009
The Attorney General of Afghanistan Muhammad Ishaq Aloko revealed the names of Ministers and other government officials accused of widespread corruption during their...
made popular Nov 16 2009
The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan...
made popular Nov 14 2009
By Afghan standards, it’s a panic of apocalyptic proportions: A state of emergency has been declared; parents are scaring their children into wearing masks on...
made popular Nov 13 2009
First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.
Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Some of the Saudi Royals.
Only three nations recognized the Taliban prior to September 11th, 2001: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Needless to say,...
made popular Nov 12 2009
As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaeda relying increasingly on the emboldened Taliban for...
made popular Nov 11 2009
The upper house of Afghan Parliament “Misharano Jirga” has condemned the ‘arrests’ of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and has said it will closely assess the...
made popular Nov 10 2009
The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan confirmed eleven deaths due to the fast spreading Swine Flue which has forced the closure of Afghan public places and...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Recently I read an article related to US is sending 40k troops to protect from Terrorism to Pakistan and Afghanistan border. And I am sure America can not contribute...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
made popular Nov 6 2009
The head of the United Nations in Afghanistan threatened a complete pullout yesterday after half of his staff were evacuated following last week’s terrorist attack,...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against...
made popular Nov 6 2009
In a rather surprising move UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon flew all the way from New York to Kabul to congratulate the re-election of President Karzai. It was...
made popular Nov 6 2009
The United Nations said on Thursday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for...
made popular Nov 5 2009
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I am bugged by the thought of why is it that ‘modern Afghans’ are not backing the government and international community whose values of government system has made...
made popular Jan 27 2009
Iranian government has no plan to repatriate afghans forcefully. This good news on the part of afghan refugees residing in Iran was propagated this past week in Iranian...
made popular Jan 27 2009
The image of Afghans is deteriorating in the ISAF outlook but here I am not to write about that rather vice versa which as well follows parallel trend. If the west...
made popular Jan 12 2009
Education and more education mean more earning power. In Afghanistan, those extra earnings are often just pocket change but a new drift is emerging which translates to...
made popular Jan 8 2009
An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for allegedly ’insulting Islam’ had his conviction upheld but his sentence reduced to 20 years in prison by an...
made popular Oct 23 2008
In my previous post titled ‘There is no limit, it is coming for us!’ I wrote about the unquestionable power extremist has been given by Islam; I was writing in the...
made popular Sep 28 2008
I was talking with a friend in Kabul over the phone earlier today as he was walking out of Indra Gandhi Paediatric Hospital in Kabul. My friend signed in her daughter...
made popular Sep 2 2008
In Lashkar Gah, the majority of female prisoners are serving 20-year sentences for being forced to have sex. Terri Judd visited them and heard their extraordinary...
made popular Aug 20 2008
I don’t believe Taliban are a social force with an agenda and connected with locality, instead I think Taliban are the harshest form of a resistance movement which is...
made popular Aug 5 2008
Humans don’t take kindly to outsiders especially when they look differently. History is heaped with the corpses of those who were lynched, bayoneted or gassed because...
made popular Aug 2 2008
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States trumpeted major portions of Barack Obama’s approach towards his country on Tuesday,
made popular Jul 30 2008
Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from the outskirts of Kandahar city, the provincial...
made popular Jun 22 2008
Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan has been summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a formal protest over remarks by President Hamid Karzai.
Mr Karzai said...
made popular Jun 16 2008
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 27, 2009. Pakistan’s foreign minister asked U.S. officials Monday to “not panic”...
