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News7 dead, 8 injured as van falls into ravine in Daikundi
NEILI (PAN): Seven people were killed and eight others were injured when their vehicle skidded off a road and plunged into a deep gorge in central Daikundi province, officials said on Saturday. The victims were...
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ArtPreserving Memory of Afghanistan’s Giant Buddhas
by: RENEE MONTAGNE When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left behind a broken country and an infamous act of destruction: reducing to rubble two monumental Buddhas that had stood for 1,500...
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Human RightsBanditry, Misogyny Keeps Afghanistan Backward
President Obama has telephoned British premier David Cameron to offer an apology. This comes after Linda Norgrove (pictured), a British aid worker, was killed in a rescue attempt that went horribly wrong. Ms Norgrove, aged...
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NewsA talented Hazara youth invents first ever Aeroplane in Afghanistan
Every nation’s continuous development depends on its people and the nations, which have suffered the brutalities of wars, can learn from its outcome to capitalize their strength to present souvenir to the nation. The Hazaras,...
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Human RightsSamar May Win Nobel Prize for Advocacy of Afghan Women’s Rights
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — Human rights advocate Sima Samar may become the first person from Afghanistan to Dr. Sima Samarwin the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote women’s health and education, according to...
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News2010 Elections: What if the Hazaras win in Uruzgan?
Martine van Bijlert, 02-10-2010: Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, as is by now well-known, is seriously pulled out of balance by fraud, insecurity and an unusual variation of the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV), an electoral system that...
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NewsNobel experts predict low-key prize after Obama
By KARL RITTER and BJOERN H. AMLAND Associated Press Writers STOCKHOLM—As the secretive Nobel Prize committees huddle for their final deliberations to select the 2010 winners, the question looms large: Are the jurors preparing another...
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NewsGhazni: At least 5 Hazaras killed by a Pashtun suicide bomber
Afghans gather at the a site of a suicide bombing in Ghazni, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. The bomber rammed a motorized rickshaw loaded with explosives into one of two vehicles in...
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NewsU.S. Probes Karzai’s Kin
Prosecutors Focus on Mahmood Karzai, Posing Diplomatic Risks for WashingtonMahmood Karzai, whom U.S. prosecutors in New York are investigating, helped develop the Aynomina housing community on the edge of the city of Kandahar./ Joel van...
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NewsCoercive Mass Displacement in Uruzgan
In addition to the numerous afflictions the Afghans have tolerated so far, evidences say that there are more things yet to appear in sight under president Karzai. Irrespective of how much realistic the government reports...
By Omid Jafari