Guide to Scholars of the History and Culture of Central Asia (Research publications of the Harvard Central Asia Forum)
Sify (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Geneva: Afghanistan is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the UN has said.It is especially dangerous for girls, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) said Thursday, in
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
"Karzai's first indication that his relationship with the United States would undergo a profound shift occurred 10 days before Obama's inauguration. Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. had come to the palace for dinner, and halfway through the meal, he began taking his host to task for how he was responding to civilian casualties caused by U.S. and NATO military operations. Biden told Karzai...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks brought to 30 the number of people killed since Karzai was sworn in for another five years on Thursday, pledging to try to bring peace to the nation and take over security from foreign forces in five years....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Unicef's 2009 state of the world's children report tells us what it's like to grow up in the poorest - and richest - places in the world. Find out which is which • Get the data • Afghanistan's civilian casualties A UN official confirmed today what many already suspected - that Afghanistan is the worst place in the world for children to be born. Launching Unicef's annual flagship report,...
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Pakistan Foreign Office has denied reports regarding the presence of Taliban supreme leaders Mullah Omar in Pakistan.
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/Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Worst Place For The World's Children: Afghanistan -- Foreign Policy Where is the worst place for children to be born in 2009, especially girls? Surprise! Afghanistan. Today, UNICEF published a special report titled State of the World's Children ; Daniel Toole, UNICEF regional director for South Asia, told a news briefing in Geneva earlier today: Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous...
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Senior diplomat formerly stationed in Kabul claims troops 'handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people' The Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture today after allegations from one of its senior diplomats that Canada was complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said...
All Politics Is Local (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Conservative Party of Canada is showing its true stripes this week. On two equally disgusting fronts. First, the Tories are defaming whistle blower Richard Colvin because he implicated that government employees in both Defense and Foreign Affairs tried to bury the torture of Afghan detainees in Kandahar's prisons. Second, the Tories are continuing their relentless pursuit of the Jewish vote by...
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Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has helped Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US drones might
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In Passing .. I saw a Buncha Boobs Unplugged “ FBI hides Dillinger as the FBI moves in Which is precisely what Pakistan/s ISI is said to have done with Taliban Omar. Hooray for us and f**k you:! Senate Health Bill Will Pay Doctors Less for Medicaid Services, But Won't Let Docs Reduce Services Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular Media Matter tells us why and wonders why she's...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Washington Times: Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Konstantin Zhigalov: Positive tendencies are being observed in Karabakh peace process.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
KABUL — A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said. Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards (50 meters) from his compound in a crowded square in Farah. Afghan police shouted "Stop! Stop!" at the motorcyclist...
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It has long been suspected that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (ISI) is in bed with the Taliban – this latest report shows that the spooks are assisting Top Turban Mullah Omar in moving around the country to escape American UAVs: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan’s ISI has helped him [...]
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eprnetwork | 11/02/2009
The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short
patrickguillard | 10/14/2009
The European Commission allocated €2 million in humanitarian aid to help flood-hit people in northern Afghanistan where many people face an increasingly tough situation as winter approaches and food supplies become increasingly scarce.
rtomas80 | 09/04/2009
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – A U.S. jet dropped 500-pound bombs on two tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban before dawn Friday, triggering a huge explosion that Afghan officials said killed more than 70 people, including insurgents and some civilians who had swarmed around the vehicles to siphon off fuel. Germany, whose troops called in the strike, said it feared the hijackers would use the trucks to carry
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