44 Would-Be Candidates For Afghan Elections
08 May 2009
'', AFP, 8 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Forty-four people including two women have applied to run in Afghanistan's August 20 presidential polls as incumbent Hamid Karzai bids for a fresh term in office, the elections authority said Friday. The applications will be vetted, with a preliminary list of candidates due to be published within a week and the final list in two weeks, Independent Elections...
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Pakistan-Afghanistan Introduce New Border Security
08 May 2009
'Pakistan-Afghanistan Introduce New Border Security', DAWN, 8 May 2009
EXCERPT: "The heads of Pakistan and Afghanistan interior departments announced Friday a series of steps to improve border security between the two countries including a new a system of providing identification documents to both countries expatriates who habitually cross borders without any papers. 'This is being done to eliminate the terrorists groups marauding...
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Germany Begins To Flex Military Muscle
08 May 2009
'', AFP, 8 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Rattled by increasingly brazen insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, German NATO troops have gone on the offensive with a rare raid to capture a Taliban commander and threatened Friday to target more. The operation by German KSK special forces and Afghan troops on Thursday and the public sabre-rattling in Berlin mark a dramatic shift for Germany,...
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Civilian Deaths Hurt Afghan-US Relations: Karzai
08 May 2009
'', The New York Times, 8 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday said that his government is doing all it can to fight corruption, disputing criticism from the Obama administration that his failure to crack down on the country's burgeoning poppy trade has helped to fuel the resurgence of the Taliban. In a wide-ranging roundtable with reporters at the...
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