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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 law to protect womens rights blocked by opponents

    An Afghan MP has accused her conservative opponents of blocking a law to protect women's rights saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.The law was enacted in 2009 by presidential decree but Fawzia Koofi wanted to cement it with a parliamentary vote to prevent its future reversal.The law bans child marriage and the practice of selling and buying women to settle disputes. Kofi said the ...

  • Afghan lawmakers block measures protecting women

    KABUL, Afghanistan – Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict ...

  • Afghanistan fails to pass law banning violence against women

    A law banning violence against women, considered a major step forward in women's rights in Afghanistan, failed to pass parliament. The law would have also created shelters for abused women, and limited the number of wives permitted to ...

  • Hardline Afghan MPs block womens law

    LAWMAKERS in Afghanistan have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The move highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the Taliban, whose strict interpretation of Islam kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in their ...

  • 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 ...

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