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KABUL, (Oct. 27, 2009) IPS/GIN - For the last three weeks, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi has lain in a Kabul hospital bed, suffering. His face is etched with hopelessness, loneliness and despair over the life he once had and has now...
WASHINGTON, (Oct. 29, 2009) IPS/GIN - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is...
India today is trying to blindly follow the policies of her military Guru Chankiya, where she is frantically driving for fulfillment of her eventual trance of Greater India and emergence of a sole regional power of South East...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - New security arrangements to be adopted in aftermath of attack on UN guesthouse - 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan to be...
The New York Times examines the use of small, direct grants to improve health and development in Afghanistan. The article focuses on efforts in "Jurm, a valley in the windswept mountainous province of Badakhshan, in the...
From ANI Jurm (Afghanistan), Nov.13: Since arriving in Afghanistan in 2001, the United States and its Western allies have spent billions of dollars on development projects. Much of that money has been funnelled through the...
Sanaullah Tasal Having declared during the election campaign that Afghanistan was the central front in the fight against terrorism – the war on which America should have been focusing all along – Obama took some quick steps to...
With his 9mm Smith and Wesson at the ready, the Afghan police chief strode through the bazaar of rickety wooden stalls, grabbed a hapless shopkeeper by the hair and slapped him across the face three times. One officer hit a man...
Part 2: Just say "No" to drugs -- and weapons... I just got an e-mail from my secret deep-throat covert expert source on Afghanistan and this was an occasion of note. "And why is that?" you might ask. Here's why. Unlike the ...
From PRI's The World 02 November, 2009 10:53:00 (Image: flickr user: mahalie (cc: by-sa)) Badakhshan in northeast Afghanistan now ranked second worst in the world in maternal mortality -- how NGOs are stepping in to help....
