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Group slams treatment of Afghan women

Source: United Press International

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 23:53:27 -0800 2009 | political-news

Afghanistan is failing to protect its women from violence and discrimination, and denies them access to justice and education, a human rights group charges. The Afghan government's failure to find and prosecute killers of prominent women has given license to...

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Britain under pressure to seek return of Pakistani detainees

Source: Times Online

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 16:12:41 -0800 2009 | disasters

In February the Government admitted that British forces captured the men in 2004 and handed them into US custody. They were then taken to Bagram, where both remain without trial. However, the Government had refused to reveal their identities. The...

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Barack of Afghanistan -- Warlord

Posted by: swinginjazzz

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 21:49:13 -0800 2009 | political-news

Former US Foreign Service official Matthew Hoh has described the Afghan situation as a civil war between the secular, urban, modern Afghans and the religious, rural, traditionalist Afghans. President Obama does not really have a dog in this fight. But...

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Press Conference at NATO Headquarters

Source: Scoop

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 13:12:46 -0800 2009 | political-news

On Tuesday, as you know, President Obama announced that the United States is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, significantly increasing our civilian aid to the Afghan people and broadening our partnership with Pakistan...I want to thank those nations...

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Karzai to unveil Afghan cabinet

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Dec 07 01:01:01 -0800 2009 | travel-news

Asked how many of the new cabinet members would be submitted, the spokesman added: "most likely a good number of them, most of them". Join the conversation You're the only person reading this now.

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Majority support new pla n

Source: The Frontier Post

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 14:04:41 -0800 2009 | political-news

In the first major poll of U.S. public opinion since President Obama's speech detailing his new Afghan strategy, a narrow majority of Americans said that they backed the president's plan. The USA Today/Gallup survey of 1,005 adults, conducted, also showed...

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Clinton: No Italian contacts on Knox case

Source: United Press International

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 11:00:28 -0800 2009 | political-news

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she has not contacted Italy about the murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox . Asked Sunday on ABC's "This Week" if she had taken any concerns to the Italian government about the fairness...

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Torkham border closed.

Posted by: ashrafuddin

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 03:51:01 -0800 2009 | allnews

LANDIKOTAL: After ten hours of relaxation Torkham border had been ultimately closed for illegal repatritors,however, border authorities allowed truckers carrying US and Afghan government consignments to cross the border,an official said. FC sources Sunday said that a high level tripartite...

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US air force recruiters end ban on tattoos on saluting arm

Source: The Guardian

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 09:40:29 -0800 2009 | political-news

The air force recruiting service instituted a policy on 25 November prohibiting tattoos below the elbow on the right arm of recruits, citing "military image". The service did not want tattoos to be visible when its airmen salute. Within a...

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Thompson to host telephone town hall

Source: Times Standard

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Dec 06 01:39:33 -0800 2009 | political-news

Thompson will host a live telephone town hall meeting Wednesday, and he is inviting everyone in his 1st Congressional District to join him. Participants will be able to ask him questions about the issues that are important to them, and...

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