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NewsSpecial Court Provides No Solution to Parliamentary Crisis
Asar Hakimi | Afghanistan Votes | January 16, 2011 The new Parliament is scheduled to begin its work within less than a week, but the controversy over last September’s election continues. A special court has...
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News80% of Schools Shut in Helmand
Tolo News Insecurity has caused the closure of 80% of schools in Helmand, local officials say. According to the governor of Helmand, the main reasons for the closure are insecurity, burning of schools, and intimidation...
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NewsPashtun Suicide bomber kills civilians including Hazaras in Kabul
A wounded Hazara man rests in a hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Kabul January 12, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed two people and wounded more than 35 near the Afghan...
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NewsSave us, plead Afghan blood-feud lovers
Jeremy Kelly | Sunday Herald Sun | January 09, 2011 A YOUNG Afghan couple want asylum in Australia after their marriage sparked a bloody tribal war, tit-for-tat kidnappings and intervention by US Special Forces and...
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EuropeGeuzen Medal 2011 to Sima Samar and the Netherlands armed forces
The Geuzen Medal for 2011 wil be awarded to Sima Samar and the Netherlands Armed Forces. Sima Samar chairs the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and is the founder of the Shuhada Dr Sima SamarOrganisation....
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ArtThousand and Four Hundreds Years of Arabs’ Domination on Afghanistan”
By Kawa Gharji A few days ago, I received the first and second volumes of the book “a Thousand and Four Hundreds Years of Arabs’ Domination on Afghanistan” and I took the advantage of long...
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DiscriminationEthnic discrimination infests Afghan army, soldiers say
“The commander tells us, ‘search your pockets’. If somebody gives him money, he can take vacation. I don’t have any money so I can’t go,” said one soldier, a 20-year-old ethnic Hazara man. Ethnic discrimination...
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Human RightsHazara Human Rights Activist Dr Sima Samar Wins Tipperary International Peace Prize
The Tipperary Peace Convention today in a statement announced that the 2010 Tipperary International Peace Prize is to be awarded to Afghan human rights activist, Dr. Sima Samar. The 53 year old Dr. Samar, OC....
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NewsIn Afghanistan, shifting political fortunes
Hazara People note: Hazaras are most populated ethnic group in Ghazni, not Pashtuns. Karzai’s regime is afraid to undertake a national census. By Pamela Constable Friday, December 24, 2010 IN KABUL Ethnic chauvinism, which has...
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NewsAfghanistan’s Hazaras gain clout in disputed parliamentary elections
Hazara People note: Hazaras are most populated ethnic group in Ghazni, not Pashtuns. Karzai’s regime is afraid to undertake a national census. Afghanistan’s Hazaras gain clout in disputed parliamentary elections By Pamela Constable Thursday, December...
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