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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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  • 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 ...

  • Head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists Businessmens Association was kidnapped…

    KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ...

  • Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request

    The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...

  • Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women’s rights

    In this April, 2013 file photo, an Afghan woman peers through the the eye slit of her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on May 18, 2013 that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside ...

  • Afghan MPs stall on womens rights

    The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a benchmark piece of legislation marking progress since the fall of the Taliban regime nearly 12 years ago.But ratification by parliament was postponed after several MPs branded the bill as against Sharia law - the Islamic teachings drawn from the Koran, the Prophet Mohammad and ...

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