Unicef's 2009 state of the world's children report tells us what it's like to grow up in the poorest - and richest - places in the world. Find out which is which • Get the data • Afghanistan's civilian casualties A UN official confirmed today what many already suspected - that Afghanistan is the worst place in the world for children to be born. Launching Unicef's annual flagship report,...
In last Sunday's article, 'Vast Majority of Britons back IoS call for UK forces to leave', we referred to Oxfam's report, The Cost of War in Afghanistan. We would like to make it clear that this report reflected the cost of the war over the last thirty years and not merely the last eight years.'
Senior diplomat formerly stationed in Kabul claims troops 'handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people' The Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture today after allegations from one of its senior diplomats that Canada was complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Thirteen killed and 30 wounded including children after suicide bomber detonated explosives in crowded square in city of Farah A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others today in a busy city square in western Afghanistan. Several children were among those wounded in the morning explosion, said a doctor at the hospital in the city of Farah,...
Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. It is especially dangerous for girls, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in launching its annual flagship report, The [...]
Three years ago I travelled across Afghanistan to make a film about what conditions for ordinary Afghans were like. We wanted to make it in the winter of 2006-07 because there was talk of a spring offensive from the Taleban — which indeed came, and came, and has kept coming ever since.
Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks brought to 30 the number of people killed since Karzai was sworn in for another five years on Thursday, pledging to try to bring peace to the nation and take over security from foreign forces in five years....
[JURIST] The conflict-ravaged nations of Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Iraq rank among the world's most corrupt, according to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published Tuesday by Transparency International (TI). The index ranked 180 countries based on observations by businesspeople and analysts, giving each a score between 0 and 10. Somalia had the lowest score of 1.1, while...
Spiralling military deaths in Afghanistan have obscured catastrophic civilian casualties. How many people have died? • British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month • Get the Afghan civilian casualties data Two awful incidents in Afghanistan today: in Zabul province, two US soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in a car just outside a military base. Meanwhile, another suicide...
It was announced early this morning that another soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. He was from the Royal Military Police and was killed during operations in the Babaji area in southern Helmand province, the MoD said. This takes the death toll in this unjustified war to 235 , 98 of whom have been killed this year alone. Another family enter the hell of grieving and perhaps wondering if their...
Worst Place For The World's Children: Afghanistan -- Foreign Policy Where is the worst place for children to be born in 2009, especially girls? Surprise! Afghanistan. Today, UNICEF published a special report titled State of the World's Children ; Daniel Toole, UNICEF regional director for South Asia, told a news briefing in Geneva earlier today: Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous...
Ace makes a good point in distinguishing this from Reid's infamous declaration that the war was lost in Iraq: Dingy Harry was aiming at withdrawal, which would have assured the outcome he had in mind, while Fred's trying to pressure Obama into committing to the war and proving him wrong. ...
Victory of President Ahmadinejad: Unnecessary Alarm in West -I -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal (Part-1) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won with a clear majority, but the anti-Islamic nations led by USA and Israel are deeply worried because they will have to revise their terror strategies now. US-led western powers seem to have roped in as many anti-Ahmadinejad leaders as possible in a poll coup in Iran,...
Well, Swat is De-Islamized, What next in Islamabad ? - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Pakistan has proved itself to be one of the deceptive Muslim nations around. US-led Pakistan let the global Muslims believe that it is sincerely moving towards...
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Well, Swat is De-Islamized, What next in Islamabad? - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Well, Swat is De-Islamized, What next in Islamabad? - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
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