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NewsAfghanistan and the Parliamentary Crises
From: The Desk of Fahim Khairy Date: November 27, 2010 Afghanistan is going through a second round of parliamentary elections in the past almost 10 years of a democratic regime following the Taliban removal. The...
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News“War Does This to Your Mind”
by Kathy Kelly, November 28, 2010 Kabul– Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can’t seem to think,” he said sadly, looking at...
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NewsGhazni’s Re-Election and the high-handedness of the IEC and Hamid Karzai
Liaquat Ali Hazara, Nov 25, 2010 The much awaited result of the recent parliamentary elections has been announced by the Independent Election Commission amid fears of deteriorating law and order and clashes between the Hazaras...
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NewsFinal Afghan election results show Hazara minority trumped dominant Pashtuns
Wed Nov 24,2010 Nearly two months after Afghans cast their votes in the parliamentary election, the countrys Independent Election Commission released the final results for all but one area of the country. While concerns remain...
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NewsUNICEF calls for a comprehensive Child Act in Afghanistan
23 November 2010 – Afghanistan needs a comprehensive Child Act fully in line with the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Afghanistan today one in five children die...
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NewsMajor discovery in Afghanistan
by Chamari SENANAYAKE Sunday, November 21, 2010 The monastery found while digging for the copper mineIn 2001, Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban blew up two giant Buddha statues in defiance of international efforts to save them. United...
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Human RightsWorld-renowned human and women’s rights activist to speak in Vancouver
By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, Vancouver Sun November 19, 2010 Dr. Sima Samar is a human rights activist who has risked her life to help women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Photograph by: ED KAISER, Postmedia News ____________________________________________________________________...
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NewsSima Samar calls attention to Afghan women in crossfire
By Travis Lupick, November 18, 2010 Nine years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan continue to fight for basic human rights. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,...
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News10 years after destruction, Bamiyan remembers its Buddhas
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers November 17, 2010 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain’s chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly....
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NewsCopper load of this! Company digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery
By Daily Mail Reporter, 15th November 2010 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329650/Company-digging-Afghanistan-unearths-2-600-year-old-Buddhist-monastery.html#ixzz15OgNonLa A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. Archaeologists are rushing...
By Omid Jafari