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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...
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NewsINTERVIEW: Top Afghan rights expert: No compromise on women’s rights
By Shabtai Gold Berlin – Afghanistan’s top human rights expert has said openly that her country is not where she wants it to be nine years after the Taliban was overthrown, and promises the long...
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NewsAFGHAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AND ORTHODOX INTELLEECTUAL VIEWS
Liaquat Ali Hazara, Nov 14, 2010 The collapse of the Taliban in 2001 persuaded the Afghan nationals to rejoice and celebrate as they wished to take the reign of the government in their hands. The...
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NewsAfghan mujahedeen prepare to fight as Karzai attempts peace with Taliban they helped overthow
By Kathy Gannon (CP) Afghanistan's ethnic minorities into taking their weapons out of mothballs and preparing for a fight.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s moves to make peace with the...
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NewsAfghan’s Women situations in the last ten years
Photograph: Ahmad Masood/REUTERSDecember 22, 2001 is marked as the new beginning and new chapter in the history of Afghanistan as the former president of Afghanistan while handing over the power to Mr Hameed Karzai said:...
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NewsAfghanistan’s children
Carrie, 11 NOVEMBER 2010 Where the buddha's used to be in Bamiyan, northern AfghanistanI have just returned from a break at home with my family. I find being away from them one of the hardest...
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Human RightsAnalysis: In pursuit of justice in Afghanistan
KABUL, 10 November 2010 (IRIN) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) should start investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by various warring groups in Afghanistan since 2002 to help end a culture of...
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News850 volumes of the Holy Koran had completely been burned down in Laghman
A school was completely burned down by unidentified armed men in the Alingar district of Laghman province, local officials said. Spokesman for the Laghman Governor, Gul Rahman Hamdard told Wakht News Agency the school called...
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