IPS Inter Press Service Afghan Divide
With the aim of improving media coverage of key development issues in Afghanistan and breaking the country's regional and international isolation, a new alliance has been formed by IPS and four of Afghanistan's main media actors. Led by The Killid Group (TKG) and with the financial support of the European Commission, the partnership is working to ensure government accountability and enhance a pluralistic democracy by giving voice to Afghan citizens and civil society. With on-the-job training undertaken through the Afghan Centre for International Journalism (CIJ), the project is providing in-depth print and radio coverage of what is really going on in this war-torn country. TKG, Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) and the Sayara network of university radios ensure the national reach of this much-needed information.
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- AFGHANISTAN: Unable To Cope With Returning Refugees
KABUL, Mar 4 (IPS) - The rate of return of refugees to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries is causing tremendous stress to the Afghan government and society, government officials here say. - POLITICS-US: Embattled Veterans Official Resigns Post
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 29 (IPS) - Another high-ranking George W. Bush administration official has resigned. The Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Daniel Cooper quit Thursday amid mounting criticism over a backlog of disability claims for injured veterans that runs six months long and an appearance he made in a fundraising video for an evangelical Christian organisation where he said Bible study was more important than doing his job. - PAKISTAN: Suicide Bombers - Chickens Coming Home to Roost
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29 (IPS) - The assassination on Monday of the surgeon-general of Pakistan’s armed forces in the garrison town of Rawalpindi has brought home the enormity of the threat posed by suicide bombers -- once nurtured by the establishment to fight the enemies of Islam in Afghanistan and Kashmir. - POLITICS-US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. - POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Moderates' Poll Victory Can Brake Extremism
PESHAWAR, Feb 27 (IPS) - Is the landslide election victory of liberal political parties likely to stem the tide of religious extremism and ‘Talibanisation’ that has engulfed Pakistan’s frontier areas bordering Afghanistan? - CANADA: Some Say Afghan Mission Is in the Wrong Hands
TORONTO, Feb 26 (IPS) - As Canada's parliament debates whether to extend the country's mission in Afghanistan beyond next year's withdrawal deadline, some peace advocates and conflict resolution experts say a U.N.-led mission is the best bet to negotiate a peace settlement involving all of the major parties in the ongoing civil war. - AFGHANISTAN: Ousted By Iran, Afghan Refugees Languish At Home
KABUL, Feb 26 (IPS) - Thousands of Afghan refugees, forcibly repatriated by Iran, have been living in makeshift camps across Afghanistan. - RIGHTS-AFGHANISTAN: Women Speak Out On Sexual Abuse By Relations
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Feb 12 (IPS) - Violence against women perpetrated by a member of the woman’s family or someone known to her appears endemic in Afghanistan. - POLITICS-US: The Cat's Pause
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (IPS) - As the man responsible for the health and strength of the U.S. military, Pentagon chief Robert Gates is increasingly finding himself between the devil and the deep blue sea. - POLITICS: Pakistan-Based Al Qaeda Biggest U.S. Threat
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (IPS) - With key improvements in the security situation in Iraq during 2007, al Qaeda -- and particularly its central leadership based in border regions of Pakistan -- continues to pose the most significant threats to the United States, both at home and abroad, according to the director of national intelligence (DNI), ret. Adm. J. Michael McConnell. - AFGHANISTAN: Emergency Services Collapse Under Bitter Cold
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Feb 2 (IPS) - An unprecedented cold wave sweeping parts of Asia has been especially tragic in Afghanistan where emergency services have failed completely. - AFGHANISTAN: NATO Winning Battles, Losing the War
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (IPS) - "Make no mistake," begins a new issue brief from non-partisan think tank the Atlantic Council of the United States, "NATO is not winning in Afghanistan." - PAKISTAN: Sunni-Shia Strife Triggers Exodus Along Afghan Border
PESHAWAR, Jan 31 (IPS) - Violent sectarian strife in the border Kurram tribal area, already riven with conflict between pro-Taliban and Pakistan government forces, has led to over 500 deaths, and an exodus of civilians to the neighbouring North Western Frontier Province (NWFP). - POLITICS: U.N. Grapples With Suicide Attacks by Children
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 (IPS) - The United Nations is expressing "serious concern" over the growing number of suicide attacks involving children, specifically in Afghanistan and Iraq. - POLITICS-US: War on Terror Moves East
WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (IPS) - The Pentagon's announcement here Tuesday that it is dispatching some 3,200 marines to Afghanistan underlines both Washington's mounting concern about the strength of the Taliban insurgency and the growing sense here that the central front in its nearly six-and-a-half-year-old "war on terror" has moved back to its South Asian roots.
