PAN (Translated by RAWA): Some MPs have reported that body parts of Afghans who are sentenced to death in Iran, are being removed. Today’s parliamentary session was mainly about the Afghans executed in Iran. The arguments turned very sour after Sadiqqui Zada Neeli, representative of Daikundi, spoke of supporting Iran. Neeli said that Iran...
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Archive for March, 2011
Body Parts of Afghans Sentenced to Death in Iran Are Removed
A Woman Beheaded in Zabul
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A woman in Qalat city of Zabul was killed in a mysterious manner. A police source who refused to name himself, told PAN on May 3rd that this incident had occurred in the Kharwarian area of Qalat. According to him the woman killed was called Zakira and her body had...
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Afghanistan ‘Worst Country’ for Mothers
The Media Line: Afganistan is the worst county in the world for a woman to be a mother, a new report says. The Mothers’ Index in Save the Children’s report, State of the World’s Mothers 2010, compares the well-being of mothers and children in 173 countries and concludes that the well-being of mothers and...
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Secret tape of Blackwater founder exposed
Times Online: Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, the American private security organisation, has claimed that his employees have called in airstrikes in Afganistan. He also mocked Afgan military recruits for needing lessons in how to use a toilet, and questioned the value and quality of other countries’ troops in the country.
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Atrocities Against Civilians in Afghanistan: A Troubling Timetable
The Huffington Post: Peace activists can hasten an end to the U.S. war in Afganistan by demanding a timetable for U.S. military withdrawal. A bill in the House introduced by Representatives McGovern and Jones requires such a timetable. In the Senate, a similar bill has been introduced by Senator Feingold.
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37 children die every hour in Afghanistan
PAN (Translated by RAWA): 22 children under the age of five and 15 children below the age of one die every hour. And every 30 minutes, a mother dies during childbirth. These statistics were announced by Dr. Suraya Dalil, Deputy Minister for Policy and Planning and Acting Minister of Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)...
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Karim Khalili and ministers accused of embezzling a million dollars
PAN: Hajj and Auqaf ministry’s cashier has accused second vice president and seven ministers of embezzling one million of dollars during last year’s Haj ritual…. during his hearing, Noor said, “I have nothing to do with this as I am just a cashier. How can I be given bribe?” He said he was just...
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2 explosions wound 15 in Afghanistan
Xinhua: Two explosions in the restive southern Helmand and western Farah provinces of Afganistan on Friday wounded over a dozen people, mostly civilians, the Interior Ministry said in a press release on Saturday. In the first incident, according to the press release, militants planted explosive device on a bicycle and detonated it in Aziz...
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Afghan civilian deaths are rising, government says
The Associated Press: Civilian casualties are rising in Afganistan as U.S. and NATO reinforcements stream into the country as part of a military buildup to combat the resurgent Taliban, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. There have been 173 civilian deaths in violence in Afganistan from March 21 to April 21, marking a 33 percent...
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