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  • Roadside bomb kills 4 Afghan cops in eastern province

    Nangarhar, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed Sunday as a roadside bomb went off in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement. "Four members of Afghan Border Police died following a roadside bombing in Khawari area of Muhmad Dara district at around 10 a.m. local time Sunday," the statement said. The Nangarhar province with ...

  • Pentagon planning to claim lowest-ever annual Afghan war costs since 2005

    The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005. The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments deployed in Afghanistan are returning to their homeland, Washington Times reports. According to the report, President Barack Obama's ...

  • Protests halt debate over eliminating violence against women in Afghan parliament

    A debate held by Afghanistan MPs to back up law to eliminate violence against women came to a standstill amid angry protests by traditionalists. A 2009 presidential decree has banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages but was not approved in the parliament, the BBC reports. According to the report, the speaker had to end the debate 15 minutes after the protests ...

  • 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. ...


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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 ...

  • Afghan president to seek military aid on visit to India amid border tensions with Pakistan

    KABUL - An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai would seek ...

  • Boko Haram - African version of Taliban

    In Syria, they are chewing the hearts of cadavers; on Indian border they are beheading the soldiers and in the US they are exploding the cooker bombs. How could Africa lag behind when all the continents are on fire? So the richest and most advanced country of this continent after South Africa, namely Nigeria got it in the form of 'Boko ...

  • Divisive womens law overlooked by Afghan Parliament

    The country's Parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women. President Hamid Karzai approved the law by decree in 2009 and Parliament's endorsement was required. But a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly resulted in debate being deferred to a later date. Religious members objected to at least eight articles in 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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