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AFP Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, ahead of a March 31 conference on Afghanistan, said the West must respect the will of the Afghan people, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Iran has been invited by the United States to a...
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ReutersPresident Barack Obama plans a significant increase in the size of the Afghan police force, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on Saturday. Holbrooke said an initial plan by the Obama administratio...
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IRINThe more than 1,000 children deported from Iran to Afghanistan's western province of Herat in 2008 face poverty and are at risk of abuse, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and provincial authorities. Most of the deported teenagers were wo...
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BBC NewsUS efforts to eradicate opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been "wasteful and ineffective", the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan says. Richard Holbrooke said the $800m (£550m) a year the U.S. was spending on counter-narcotics would be be...
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ReutersThe United States met NATO allies on Monday to outline its policy review for Afghanistan after President Barack Obama said it would contain an exit strategy and greater emphasis on economic development. With violence rising ahead of elections in ...
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By NASIBA ALIMYAARIt's a familiar daily scene across the capital. Groups of kids in their uniforms wait for marked buses and mini-vans to take them to school. Unlike public school students - who walk or take the city bus system - private school children a...
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By ZABIULLAH FORMULIMine clearance agencies have temporarily laid off 40 percent of their personnel because of budget constraints. Agencies have requested $100 milliom but, to date, only $85 million has been approved by donors.If the budget shortfall is m...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQAfghanistan is expecting an additional $2 billion annually from five separate mining contracts that are expected to be signed this year. Officials estimate that more than 20,00 new jobs will be created in the mining sector. The Ministry of M...
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By Jason Burke Appointing a prime minister to bypass the corrupt presidency of Hamid Karzai might suit the Americans - but would it help Afghanistan?This weekend, the people of Kabul celebrated the Persian new year. They thronged the lake below the Bala H...
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- IDREES DANIELThe Independent Election Commission recently announced that it is taking measures to ensure that candidates don't use government resources for their political campaigns.The announcement is intended to assuage valid concerns that President K...
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The full Obama Administration strategy for Afghanistan will be unveiled next month, but parts of the plan are already evident, including the recent “troop surge.” Seventeen thousand additional U.S. soldiers are being deployed to Afghanistan, and Washi...
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AKIAfghanistan's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year jail term for blasphemy handed to Afghan journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who claimed men and women were equal. Kambakhsh's brother said the family had just learned of the closed-door ruling delivered...
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BBC News Coalition forces in Afghanistan are not winning in large parts of the south, the commander of Nato and US forces there has said. Gen David McKiernan told the BBC that coalition strategy had so far been clear, but under-resourced. A decision t...
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IRINLess than 30 percent of the 166,000 tonnes of wheat the Afghan government promised to distribute to tens of thousands of people during the winter months (October-March) has been delivered so far, according to the Afghanistan National Disasters Managem...
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AFPAfghanistan called on Monday on neighbouring Iran to help the United States and other world powers in stabilising the violence-wracked nation. "We definitely want the support and cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Afghan Foreign Minister R...
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AFPAfghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday he could remain in power after his term ends and until August elections, provided it was agreed by the Supreme Court or via a consensus of tribal leaders.Karzai's term ends on May 21, but with presidential elec...
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- IDREES DANIELWe have seen laws repealed and now we're witnessing laws being stolen. Four months ago the National Assembly approved the country's Media Law, but the law has not been published by the Justice Ministry.Once a law has been singed and approve...
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By Nasir Shansab The phenomenal growth of Afghanistan's opium production over the past seven years is a sign of the monumental failure of the Karzai government.Some of us may have forgotten that in 2001, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had been eradicate...
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After repeated confrontations between the administration and its opponents, an election date finally has been set. Afghanistan will hold its second presidential election in history on Aug. 20.Meanwhile, the power vacuum dilemna remains. President Karzai's...
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By KABUL WEEKLY STAFFIn a meeting to mark International Women's Day in Kabul, President Karzai said that he will defer to the Supreme Court and a “national consensus” on the question of whether he will stay in power after May 20.President Karzai's ter...
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