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  • 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 ...

  • Twin blasts kill 9 wounds 55 in Afghanistans Kandahar

    Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said. "The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in ...

  • Russia counting on UN for post-ISAF Afghanistan plans

    Moscow is counting on the UN to develop proposals regarding the international presence in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "We consider it important to start discussing in advance what forms of (international) presence there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count on the proposals that the (UN) secretary general is planning to prepare together ...

  • Nine killed 55 injured in Afghan attacks

    At least nine people were killed and over 55 injured Friday evening when two blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kandahar city, a government official said. "The initial reports said three police officers and six civilians died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening," reported Xinhua citing a provincial spokesperson. The blasts occurred as ...


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The Furies [DVD]

The Furies [DVD]

Long overshadowed by Winchester 73, which was released the same year and marked the beginning of the extensive relationship between director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart, The Furies has frequently been neglected in histories of the western, particularly the role it played ... ...

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  • Afghan Lawmakers Halt Debate On Womens Rights Law

    Lawmakers in the Afghan parliament have halted a debate on a law aimed at preventing violence against women. Just minutes into the debate on May 18, the parliament’s speaker ended proceedings amid strong opposition from legislators who called the law un-Islamic. The Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women is an effort to protect women from rape, forced marriage, and the ...

  • Afghan legislators block law protecting women

    An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked approval of a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam added to the hardship in the lives of Afghan women. The law ...

  • Its Artificial Afghanistan A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert

    free tours, open to the public , twice a month.We made the trip, cameras in hand and notebooks at the ready, to learn more about the simulated battlefields in which imaginary conflicts loop, day after day, without ...

  • Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive womens law

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ...

  • India ready to consider Afghan request for arms supplies

    Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...

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