NATO Troops Kill Two Civilians in Kandahar: Police
31 March 2011
Foreign troops killed two Afghan civilians in restive southern Kandahar city on Thursday, a police detective said, days after the publication of gruesome photos of the body of an unarmed teenager murdered by U.S. soldiers nearby. NATO soldiers opened fire after a car with brake failure sped towards a checkpoint set up by foreign and Afghan troops, who thought the vehicle was part of a suicide attack, said Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, a senior detective in...
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Afghan Asylum-seekers Hit by Tighter Immigration Rules
31 March 2011
There were fewer Afghan asylum-seekers in 2010 and this could, in part, be due to tighter immigration controls in destination countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Returnees. The number of Afghan asylum-seekers in “44 industrialized countries” (mainly European countries, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the Republic of Korea) dropped by 9 percent in 2010 compared...
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Taliban Show Increasing Strain Following Killings, Arrests and Internal Disputes
31 March 2011
The Afghan Taliban are showing signs of increasing strain after a number of killings, arrests and internal disputes that have reached them even in their haven in Pakistan, Afghan security officials and Afghans with contacts in the Taliban say. Three powerful Taliban commanders were killed in February in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, well known to be the command center of the Taliban leadership, according to an Afghan businessman and...
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Afghan Women at the Crossroads: Agents of Peace - Or Its Victims?
31 March 2011
[The aim of] this paper to explore how Afghanistan’s women have sought to protect themselves and improve their situation during their country’s upheavals over the past three decades, and how in coming years they can secure what they have won. In order to understand how the status of women has changed in that time, there is a need to understand their historical position throughout the twentieth century—in the decades of peace that...
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