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Taliban fighters warned Afghans not to take part in the war-wracked country’s upcoming presidential runoff, threatening Saturday to launch a fresh wave of violence on polling day to stop them.
The warnings came on the first official day of...
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A member of Afghan upper house of the parliament “Mesharano Jirga” was gunned down in a fight that broke out between the provincial police and the...
made popular Dec 24 2009
UN believes that over 6 Million poeple in Afghanistan need help in terms of food staples while 30,000 of them are in dire help of food on emergency basis.
As per the...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Some international contractors, hired by the United States to build roads and other large construction projects in Afghanistan, are paying Taliban insurgents not to...
made popular Dec 22 2009
While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition.
The World Food...
made popular Dec 22 2009
President Hamid Karzai, whose cabinet nominations are under scrutiny by both Afghans and Western countries that aid Afghanistan, sought to reassure the world on Sunday...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Yesterday saw the closing of a three-day national conference to identify “best practices and effective measures” in the fight against corruption. The...
made popular Dec 18 2009
A foreign reporter along with his two afghan colleagues who were kidnapped six days ago were freed in the eastern province of Kunar along the border with...
made popular Dec 18 2009
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered his last ditch play to the Copenhagen climate change conference in an address to the main session as an estimated 140 world...
made popular Dec 18 2009
The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into...
made popular Dec 17 2009
For the first time in eight years of his rule has he dared speak the truth and explain his powerlessness to a public that is least interested in his words and more in...
made popular Dec 17 2009
By 10 a.m. this morning, the day looked bright. The sun was shining on Kabul, taking the chill out of the bones. I’d had my breakfast of cereal and tea and read...
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Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home.
More than 230,000...
made popular Dec 16 2009
David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...
made popular Dec 16 2009
At least eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, officials say.
The blast happened near a hotel in Wazir Akbar Khan...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Meet the measuring stick of America’s Pentagon:
In other words, the Pentagon determined that 30 casualties, even if they were civilian, were too few to matter...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Taliban fighters attacked checkpoints in northern and southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 members of the Afghan National police.
Eight policemen were killed...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Attorney General of Afghanistan reported the arrest of Wahab-ud-Din Sadaat, Secretary to the Mayor of Kabul on charges of corruption.
Sources revealed that Mr. Sadaat...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Welcoming 30,000 troops coupled with at least 7000 NATO forces, Afghanistan doesn’t appear at all ready for taking up the security responsibilities nor is the...
made popular Dec 11 2009
The phenomenon of Global Warming has brought the world together in Copenhagen to face its common enemy that it has created itself. This phenomenon takes me directly to...
made popular Dec 11 2009
During yesterday’s hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented a unified...
made popular Dec 10 2009
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Everything in the world doesn’t necessarily happen for the first time. American soldiers are supposedly the “prime targets” of Taliban and Al-Qaeda as is put...
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Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul after 10 hours of clashes with besieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an...
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Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan appeared on a video aired Saturday by an Arab satellite channel, saying he was kidnapped by Taliban militants more than two...
made popular Apr 21 2008
Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the Afghan-Pakistani border are increasingly facing pressure on two fronts and they can be squeezed with more coordination between the...
made popular Apr 15 2008
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