CNN VIDEO: “Afghan Rape Victim Gets Reduced Jail Sentence”
Tweet From CNN Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) – Afghan prosecutors announced Wednesday that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from twelve to three years. The prosecutor said she would, for now, remain in jail — with her child — for not...
AP: “Karzai Denounces Use of Child Suicide Bombers”
Tweet From Associated Press An Afghan police officer holds a national flag during a graduation ceremony in Herat, Afghanistan Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011. By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press – August 24, 2011 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday denounced the use of child suicide bombers, saying that militants who recruit them...
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: “Enlisting Allah in Afghanistan”
Tweet From The Atlantic Magazine To thwart the Taliban, marines in Helmand province are teaching the locals to read the Koran. By BRIAN MOCKENHAUPT Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini SOON AFTER HE DEPLOYED to southern Afghanistan this spring, Lieutenant Commander Nathan Solomon, a Navy chaplain, learned of a disconcerting and persistent belief among the locals in northern Marja: the...
CNN: “2 Women MP’s Brawl in Afghan Parliament”
Tweet From CNN From Matiullah Mati, CNN July 5, 2011 12:09 p.m. EDT Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Two female members of the Afghanistan Parliament got into a physical fight Tuesday following a discussion of rocket attacks from Pakistan. General Nazifa Zaki, a former army general, threw her shoe at fellow MP Hamida Ahmadzai, video from...
THE GUARDIAN (UK): “Taliban Kill Head of Afghan Girls School”
Tweet From The Guardian Newspaper (UK) Government officials say teacher had ignored death threats from hardline Islamists warning him not to teach girls Reuters guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 May 2011 10.55 BST An Afghan girl in a classroom in Kabul, where girls have returned to school after the ban on education for women under the Taliban...
NY TIMES: “What Richard Holbrooke Knew” by Nicholas Kristof
Tweet By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: May 14, 2011 When he was alive, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was effectively gagged, unable to comment on what he saw as missteps of the Obama administration that he served. But as we face a crisis in Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden, it’s worth listening to Holbrooke’s...
ESPN: “Afghan Girls Take to Skateboarding”
Tweet From ESPN May 13, 2011 | By Awista Ayub (Awista Ayub/espnW) Skateistan’s indoor practice facility was inspired by the girls who flocked to public skate sessions. As they got older, they were no longer allowed to play outside, but the indoor facility and female-only sessions it offers solve that problem. It is December 2010,...
NEW YORK TIMES: “My First Afghan Burqa”
Tweet From NYTimes.com May 5, 2011, 12:35 pm By ALISSA J. RUBIN Alissa J. Rubin is the bureau chief of The New York Times in Kabul. GARDEZ, Afghanistan — For a recent story, I had to travel unembedded into an area largely controlled by the Taliban. The route passed through Logar Province, through the area...
CNN VIDEO: “Pakistanis Protest U.S. Drone Action”
Tweet By the CNN Wire Staff April 24, 2011 4:22 p.m. EDT (CNN) — A Pakistani opposition leader on Sunday threatened to have supporters block NATO supply routes to Afghanistan and march to Islamabad if U.S. drone strikes in the country were not halted. Imran Khan, a famous former cricket player and the head of the...
