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  • Afghan police officer killed in Taliban attack

    A senior police official was killed in Afghanistan's Farah province when two Taliban militants opened fire on him, an official said Saturday. Ghani Khan, the police chief of Khak-e-Safid district, was visiting Charbagh area outside provincial capital Farah city Friday night. Khan was killed on the spot as two Taliban militants, riding a motorcycle, came across and sprayed bullets, reported ...

  • Afghan Lawmakers Block Womens Rights Law

    Afghanistan's parliament has delayed action on a measure aimed at protecting women's rights. Activists say the move Saturday is a blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the ousting of the Taliban from power. The Taliban observed strict Islamic rule that banned Afghan women from attending school or participating in most public activity. ...

  • Pune hosts Afghan film festival

    A three -day Afghan film festival was inaugurated here by the Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammand Abdali. Speaking on the occasion, theAfghan Ambassador appreciated the work of some . Bollywood actors of the fifties and sixties and expressed the need to revive old camaraderie with India. An Afghan filmmaker, Siddiq Barmak threw light on the difficulties, which they faced while ...

  • Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf says no enmity with Taliban

    The coming provincial government was ready to hold talks with the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) senior leader has said. Pervez Khattak, who is soon-to-be Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said that they have no enmity with the Taliban. The PTI central Secretary General said the Taliban were also Pakistanis and requested the ...

  • Fly a flag for Cody Army confirms Utah man died in Afghanistan explosion

    Jim Towse, father of Cody Towse, talks about his son at his home in Elk Ridge Saturday, May 18, 2013. Cody Towse was standing near an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan when it went off. The military has been unable to locate ...


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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) [DVD]

Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) [DVD]

Of all the films made about the Holocaust, Alain Resnais Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) is quite possibly the most moving and thought-provoking, which is all the more impressive given than it is barely more than a half an hour in length. As a visual document of the remnants of Nazi concentration camps, it makes an ironic statement about the inherent neutrality of physical object ... ...

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  • Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on his 12th visit to India

    While Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit is set to dominate headlines, the next few days could also be key for another troublesome part of India's neighbourhood: Afghanistan.With Afghan President Hamid Karzai visiting the country, Vice-President Hamid Ansari visiting Uzbekistan and newly elected Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif open to further talks, India's foreign service ...

  • Endgame Afghanistan Talking to the Taliban

    Kabul: The Taliban is the same group that preferred war with the United States over handing over its friends from the Al Qaeda. It is the same group that continues to haunt Afghans. So what has led to talks with the Taliban in the run-up to 2014, when Western troops will exit Afghanistan completely? It's a story that takes us back and forth between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many diplomatic ...

  • Utah County father waits for word on son missing in action in Afghanistan

    Jim Towse, father of Cody Towse, talks about his son at his home in Elk Ridge Saturday, May 18, 2013. Cody Towse was standing near an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan when it went off. The military has been unable to locate ...

  • Anger as Afghan MPs halt womens bill debate

    Afghanistan Islamic fundamentalist politicians in Afghanistan have stopped a debate on whether to give parliamentary approval to a law protecting women against violence.Proceedings were brought to an end amid angry scenes when traditionalists demanded a repeal of the law.The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a ...

  • Afghan women’s rights suffer setback

    The fierce opposition highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam once kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in their ...

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