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  • Afghan lawmaker blasts early French withdrawal

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    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan lawmaker has sharply criticized France's plans to hand over security in her troubled province to Afghan troops within a few months, saying that her ...

  • NATO Purchases Leave Afghans Short of Fuel

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    john
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    Pakistani blockade squeezing availability of vehicle fuel. As fuel becomes scarcer and pricier in the Afghan capital Kabul, many are pointing the finger at NATO for buying up oil products domestically to make up for blocked supplies from Pakistan. Programme:  Afghanistan read more

  • Doing Afghan Drugs

    RAWA News
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:29 am
    CounterPunch: Drug addicts are pathetic but sometimes happy people. They are pitiable in their hopeless enslavement to something that dominates and will probably kill them, but seem content in a warped sort of way because they can be taken out of their bleak and dismal lives into who knows what warm and cozy cocoons of whirligig private ecstasy by use of narcotics that will ravage their minds and bodies.

  • Nazia Iqbal Quits Singing, Vows to Preach Islam

    AfghanCorner
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:41 am
    مشال ريډيو    پر فيس بوک ډيرو خلکو د نازيه اقبال سندرو ويلو ته شا کول ستايلي دي خو نظار يوسفزی دا د کلتور لپاره لوی ګوزار ګڼي. هغه وايي چې پښتانه سندرې اوري خو سندرغاړي يې نه دي خوښ او نازيه اقبال بايد  سندرو پريښودلو ته مذهبي رنګ ورنه کړي. نظار يوسفزی زياتوي.. ))   له دې وړاندې هم ځينو سندرغاړو موسيقي پرې ايښي او…

  • Soviet Lessons for America in Afghanistan

    Ghosts of Alexander
    Christian
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am
    Artemy M. Kalinovsky, A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011) Artemy Kalinovsky has worked his LSE dissertation on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan into a book that is both very readable and a valuable scholarly contribution to the literature on Afghanistan, the Soviet Union and International Relations. The book’s focus – the decision-making process behind the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan – is obviously relevant to the contemporary situation in Afghanistan as the American leadership decides how to attempt to manage…
 
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  • NATO Purchases Leave Afghans Short of Fuel

    john
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    Pakistani blockade squeezing availability of vehicle fuel. As fuel becomes scarcer and pricier in the Afghan capital Kabul, many are pointing the finger at NATO for buying up oil products domestically to make up for blocked supplies from Pakistan. Programme:  Afghanistan read more

  • Afghan Olive Farms Waiting for Water

    john
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    Once-thriving industry now in poor shape. Programme:  Afghanistan read more

  • Talk of Devolution Angers Kabul

    john
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    Fears that decentralisation could produce “balkanised” Afghanistan. Afghan opposition leaders have angered the government by meeting United States Congress members and issuing a call for decentralisation in their country. Programme:  Afghanistan read more

  • Afghan Constitution More Breached Than Honoured

    john
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:44 am
    Eighth anniversary of bill of rights leaves little cause for rejoicing. Programme:  Afghanistan read more

  • Women's Literacy Makes Headway in Afghan West

    john
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    Courses teach women to read and write, defying prejudice against female education Nazira looked up proudly from a notebook bearing a United Nations logo to show a series of words written in red ink. Programme:  Afghanistan read more
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  • Doing Afghan Drugs

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:29 am
    CounterPunch: Drug addicts are pathetic but sometimes happy people. They are pitiable in their hopeless enslavement to something that dominates and will probably kill them, but seem content in a warped sort of way because they can be taken out of their bleak and dismal lives into who knows what warm and cozy cocoons of whirligig private ecstasy by use of narcotics that will ravage their minds and bodies.

  • Afghan driver shot dead by Pakistani police

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:10 am
    PAN: An Afghan driver was shot dead by Pakistani police in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday when he failed to pay 20 rupees (less than 10afs) in bribe, a transport union official said. A policeman killed Tawab Gul, an Afghan refugee, in the Pishtakhara locality of Peshawar, said Ayaz Khan, a member of the city transport union. The victim lived in Nothia area, he added.

  • AFGHANISTAN: Time running out for displaced farmers

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:54 am
    IRIN: Much of Dawood Boy’s village in northern Afghanistan is empty. More than 1,000 families from Alburz in Balkh Province abandoned it 4-6 months ago after a drought affecting nearly half the country left 2.8 million people in need of food assistance, according to the World Food Programme. The drought destroyed the crops Boy had planted, killed his livestock which no longer had animal feed, and left his family without seeds for next season.

  • How Iran Controls Afghanistan

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:18 am
    Fox News: Afghanistan has suffered from foreign meddling since its inception. But while Pakistan’s role has been widely discussed -- most Afghans will point to concrete examples -- Iran’s involvement is more subtle. Iranian influence is all encompassing--the Islamic government funds Afghan Shiite sects and politicians, has invested in building roads and providing fuel and transport...

  • Mental trauma takes huge toll in Afghan war

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:08 am
    AFP: Mohammad Qasim, a 58-year-old butcher, is traumatised, depressed and anxious -- like 50 percent of his fellow Afghans after 30 years of war, according to government figures. Qasim saw his wife, daughter-in-law and two grandsons aged five and six die in a horrific suicide bombing in Kabul last month.
 
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  • Nazia Iqbal Quits Singing, Vows to Preach Islam

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:41 am
    مشال ريډيو    پر فيس بوک ډيرو خلکو د نازيه اقبال سندرو ويلو ته شا کول ستايلي دي خو نظار يوسفزی دا د کلتور لپاره لوی ګوزار ګڼي. هغه وايي چې پښتانه سندرې اوري خو سندرغاړي يې نه دي خوښ او نازيه اقبال بايد  سندرو پريښودلو ته مذهبي رنګ ورنه کړي. نظار يوسفزی زياتوي.. ))   له دې وړاندې هم ځينو سندرغاړو موسيقي پرې ايښي او…

  • Karzai Parody

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:47 am
    An incredible parody of Afghan president Hamid Karzai.  http://afghancorner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

  • Opium Brides (video)

    5 Jan 2012 | 1:36 am
    (PBS FRONTLINE): Afghan opium farmers have long borrowed money from drug gangs to subsidize their crops. Now, as the Afghan government destroys their livelihood in an eradication program, the farmers find themselves in a horrifying situation: repay their debts or give their daughters to drug-traffickers. [PBS's] Najibullah Quraishi reports on the harrowing story of the collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort. Watch Opium Brides on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.http://afghancorner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

  • Full text of Pakistan's Supreme Court in Memo petitions

    30 Dec 2011 | 9:07 pm
    Source: Associated Press of Pakistan: Following is the complete text of the Supreme Court order in memo Constitution petitions No. 77 TO 85 & 89 OF 2011 & CMA NO.5505/2011 In Constitutional Petition. 79 Of 2011. The order was announced by a nine member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday. “IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN(Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: MR. JUSTICE IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY, CJMR. JUSTICE MIAN SHAKIRULLAH JANMR. JUSTICE TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANIMR. JUSTICE JAWWAD S. KHAWAJAMR. JUSTICE TARIQ…

  • Kalash: An Endangered Culture (Academic Research)

    16 Dec 2011 | 7:43 am
    by Pamir Scahill (Follow Pamir Scahill on Twitter) AbstractThis paper focuses on cultural patterns of Kalash people in order toexplain why Kalasha is isolated and is not integrated to the mainstreamPakistani society? This paper will explain how Kalash culture is at the vergeof extinction and is threatened by religious extremists while Pakistan’s Stateis silent and is not doing enough to preserve this culture or to integrate itin a positive way. The interaction between majority and minority culture alsofalls under scope of the paper. The paper discusses areas of difficulty betweentwo…
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  • Soviet Lessons for America in Afghanistan

    Christian
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am
    Artemy M. Kalinovsky, A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011) Artemy Kalinovsky has worked his LSE dissertation on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan into a book that is both very readable and a valuable scholarly contribution to the literature on Afghanistan, the Soviet Union and International Relations. The book’s focus – the decision-making process behind the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan – is obviously relevant to the contemporary situation in Afghanistan as the American leadership decides how to attempt to manage…

  • Updates and Research

    Christian
    24 Nov 2011 | 2:40 am
    Well, I finally put aside some time to get around Kazakhstan’s internet block on WordPress (the platform I use for this blog). I’m not in Kazakhstan, but here in Kyrgyzstan the internet is provided by Kazakh companies. I guess there were a couple of blogs that bothered the government so they just decided to just block all blog platforms. Anyways, I’m currently teaching and researching at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. I teach a class on ‘Politics and Security in Central Asia’ for 30 MA students. Teaching just one class gives me time for my research, which is on the…

  • Research and Teaching Fellowships + MA Student Scholarships at the OSCE

    Christian
    24 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
    I don’t usually post announcements here, but the Central Eurasia Listserv has been experiencing some issues as of late. The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (my current home) has two fellowship positions open for teaching macroeconomics and microeconomics (minimum requirement to teach is a Master’s degree) There will be plenty of time on the side to work on your own research (and the language of instruction is English). Announcement info here: TWO Teaching and Research Fellowships – OSCE Academy (PDF) Furthermore, applications are open for scholarships for the Master of…

  • A Brief History of Negotiating with the Taliban

    Christian
    21 Sep 2011 | 12:56 am
    Three years ago I wrote an article on the history of Taliban negotiations. Anyways, the website I wrote the article for changed formats and  my piece disappeared. In the interests of framing (historically) the assassination today of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the most prominent government negoatiator/contact for talks with the Taliban, I will copy and paste the article here. Additionally, numerous people have contacted me over the last couple of years looking for the article, and I just recently found a copy. So here it is… A Brief History of Negotiating with the Taliban October 24, 2008.

  • Afghan Documentary Films

    Christian
    15 Sep 2011 | 2:59 am
    There are so many projects related to Afghanistan that produce little to nothing for us “consumers” to read or  view. Community Supported Film is different. They have produced quite a few documentaries, and made them immediately available to view online – for a limited time. Their documetary film collection Fruits of Our Labour looks great. Here’s their spiel: Leading up to 9/11, Community Supported Film is releasing one Afghan-made film per day from the collection The Fruit of Our Labor.   As we reflect on the impact of 9-11 and the October 7th US-led invasion of…
 
 
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  • From the Crusades to Afghanistan, it is always the same.

    thorsager11
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:52 pm
    In class we looked at a New York Times slideshow, with audio commentary. It told the story of an event that took place in the Taliban zone, just outside Aliabad, Afghanistan. Three words come to mind after viewing the piece: “This is war.” In the perfect world there would be no war, but since the beginning of recorded history it has existed. Men have been standing shoulder to shoulder fighting against their enemies. This slideshow relayed a message, something along the lines of, “War is war, there is really no way around it.”  I felt a sense of unity among the men…

  • Broken Soldiers

    Sami Ghani
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:51 pm
    I recently watched the New York Times photo slideshow An Ambush and a Comrade Lost, which was originally published in April of 2009. I found the piece to be interesting from both a political and media effects perspective, demonstrating the pain and loss of war. I also saw it as a critique on the view of American soldiers as faceless fighting machines, a perspective that allows us to send thousands of lives across the world to kill and be killed. I felt that this piece disrobes that soldier archetype, showing the humanity beneath the armor, and the manner in which war can muffle and stifle…

  • New video #2 on 1-26-2012…

    boudicabpi
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:43 pm
    …at our sister blog boudicabpi.boudica.us Please leave your comments there. Click link for video. Thumbs up to the marines that pissed on Taliban… Follow us, donate and help us stay on line.

  • War Vets, Former NFL Stars To Compete In Indianapolis

    caseyshea9
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:18 pm
    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The countdown to Super Bowl Sunday is on. While the New York Giants and New England Patriots are gearing up, so are some other athletes. A group of wounded Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans will also be taking the field in Indianapolis thanks in part to a former Steelers great. These athletes are anything but ordinary. [worldnow id= 6678382 width=385 height=255 type=video] They’re heroes, veterans and amputees. They are brave men who were wounded while fighting for our country. They’ve been traveling all over the country playing softball, but…

  • Snow

    Kevin Griffiths
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:23 pm
    Image by The U.S. Army via Flickr Overnight there was about 2 inches of fresh snow dropped on the to
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  • AFGHANISTAN: 38 Attacks a Day Take Their Toll

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    A red flare lights up the moonless night at a remote military outpost in southern Kandahar, a signal to land for the incoming helicopter. Bordering Pakistan, this desolate strip of desert is deadly, especially during peak ‘fighting season' every summer between NATO-ISAF military forces and the Taliban.

  • U.S. Probe of Border Attack Hardened Pakistani Suspicions

    25 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    The Pakistani military leadership's response to the U.S. report on its helicopter attack on two Pakistani border posts Nov. 26 assailed the credibility of the investigation by Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven Clark and expressed doubt that the attack could have been "accidental".

  • PAKISTAN: Taliban Bombs Get Deadlier

    19 Jan 2012 | 7:48 pm
    In their efforts to kill and injure more people as part of a terror campaign in northern Pakistan, the Taliban militia have resorted to lacing bombs with toxic chemicals that leave survivors with complicated wounds.

  • PAKISTAN: New Price Tags on Stranded NATO Supplies

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:07 pm
    From a distance, the neatly stacked red, blue and orange containers suggest that business is good at Karachi's Kemari port.

  • U.S.: A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Hundreds of protesters, dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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  • Afghanistan: Coverage in US papers falls in 2011

    Adil Nurmakov
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:20 am
    Nick Fielding writes that coverage of Afghanistan in American newspapers fell in 2011 compared to the previous year, although overall coverage of international issues jumped by more than a third. Written by Adil Nurmakov · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • Afghanistan: Sahar Gul’s story as an illustration of women’s rights

    Adil Nurmakov
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    basir ahang writes about 15 year old girl, who had been forced into marriage and later was imprisoned, tortured and violently beaten by the husband and his family because she refused to work and earn money as a prostitute. Written by Adil Nurmakov · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • Afghanistan:The number 39 is associated with prostitution

    Fred Petrossian
    3 Jan 2012 | 11:01 am
    A Facebook campaign has been launched to fight against wrong mentality about number 39 in Afghanistan. This number is associated to prostitution. Read more here. Written by Fred Petrossian · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • Afghanistan: Being Disable Is Not An Unability

    Adil Nurmakov
    13 Dec 2011 | 5:16 am
    yahweh writes how situation with the rights of women and disabled persons has developed in Afghanistan since 2001, when the Afghan government and its international allies pledged to advance gender issues following the military intervention to oust the Taliban. Written by Adil Nurmakov · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • Afghanistan: US civilian aid begins to fall

    Adil Nurmakov
    14 Nov 2011 | 10:04 am
    Nick Fielding reports that US civilian aid to Afghanistan will begin to decline as troop levels are reduced over the next three years, and it has already fallen from $4.1 billion in 2010 to $2.5 billion this year. Written by Adil Nurmakov · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper
 
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