PAN: At least 450 women out of 100,000 die from complications arising from childbirth or pregnancy in northern Balkh province, a top health official said on Wednesday. Compared with the country average, Balkh has a relatively low maternal mortality rate, the director of the Public Health Department, Dr. Mirwais Rabe, said.
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Archive for November, 2011
450 in 100,000 women die during maternity in Balkh
Lack of text books a challenge in Baghlan schools
PAN: Students at schools in northern Baghlan province have accused education officials of selling their text books to shops in the bazaar. Although the academic year started three months ago, the students say they have not received their books from the Ministry of Education. Stationary and book store owners said officials had sold them...
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Afghan schoolgirls hospitalized for possible poisoning
CNN: About 60 schoolgirls in Afganistan’s Balkh province appear to have been poisoned and required hospitalization, the Ministry of Health said Sunday. The victims ranged in age from 9 to 14. Most suffered minor reactions, ministry spokesman Sakhi Kargan told CNN. It’s at least the third suspected poisoning of girls attending schools in Afganistan...
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Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency “supports” Taliban
BBC News: A new report claims to provide the most concrete evidence yet of direct links between Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency and the Taliban in Afganistan. The report says the ISI is providing funding, training and sanctuary to the Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought. The document was prepared by the...
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Rapists of a Child are Still Free After a Year
PAN (Translated by RAWA): The sons of a female member of the Provincial council of Helmand, who raped a child last year, are still free from the hold of the law despite repeated demands and the orders of the authorities. Not everyone has the ability to watch the extremely shocking video clip of this...
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The Courage to Leave
The New York Times: There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afganistan. There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago. Now we’re just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in sight....
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14 killed in Afghanistan attacks
AFP: Nine civilians, including four women and three children, died when a bomb ripped through a minibus travelling along the main road leading to the capital of Kandahar province. Eight other civilians were wounded in the attack, which took place in the Maywand area, provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayobi said.
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Scores of schoolgirls poisoned in Ghazni
PAN: The number of schoolgirls fallen ill after a suspected poisonous gas attack on their school in the volatile southern province of Ghazni has reached 60, medics said on Saturday. The teenage girls of the Jehan Malika High School in Ghazni City, the provincial capital, were hospitalised after smelling the poisonous gas, said the...
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