BBC News 16 January 2013 [Watch video at BBC news site] A suicide bomb attack has been launched on a building belonging to Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) in the capital, Kabul, officials have told the BBC. Three civilians were killed and 30 hurt, the officials said. Five attackers were killed. Another car packed [...]
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Afghanistan: Afghan refugees in Pakistan reluctant to return home
BBC News 10th January 2013 Pakistani authorities are planning to cancel the refugee status of over 1.66 million Afghan refugees living in the country at the end of June this year. The UNHCR says it will continue to treat them as refugees and has been providing incentives to encourage the refugees to return home. But [...]
Afghanistan: Bleak 2013 humanitarian outlook
IRIN 2nd January 2013 More violence and a worsening humanitarian situation are likely in Afghanistan in 2013, say aid agencies. “The worsening conflict trends over the last five years indicate that civilians will continue to suffer because of armed violence and that the humanitarian situation will deteriorate,” says the new Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) for 2013, [...]
Afghanistan: The Afghan interpreters seeking asylum in the UK
BBC News UK 19 December 2012 Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working for British forces in Afghanistan are taking legal action to persuade the government to give them assistance to remain in the UK, and shield them from intimidation by the Taliban. They are asking for a package similar to that given to Iraqi [...]
Afghanistan: camps receive winter aid, but officials say it isn’t enough
Rod Nordland, New York Times 30 December 2012 Watch the related video and read the full article here. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Sunday distributed emergency cold-weather supplies to families in a refugee camp where two days earlier a 3-year-old died of exposure to the freezing temperatures. But camp leaders and Afghan government officials criticized the [...]
Afghanistan: three killed, scores hurt In Afghan suicide attack
Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Afghanistan 23 November 2012 Officials in Afghanistan’s eastern Maidan Wardak Province say three people have been killed and scores more injured in a suicide car-bomb blast. Ghullam Farooq Mukhles, the head of Wardak health department, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that up to 90 people were wounded in the incident. The [...]
Afghanistan/Australia: minister’s decision to deport Afghan man ‘irrational’
Jane Lee, The Canberra Times 3 November 2012 Immigration Minister Chris Bowen’s decision to deport an Afghan asylum seeker was arbitrary and irrational, a court has heard. The man, from Ghazni in Afghanistan, arrived in Australia two years ago, claiming that he was at real risk of being killed if he returned because of his [...]
Afghanistan: torture claims halt MoD transfers to Afghan jails
Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Cobain, The Guardian 2 November 2012 Head of directorate to which MoD wants to transfer prisoners is alleged to have been involved in torture, court hears A determined attempt by the Ministry of Defence to transfer insurgents to Afghan jails was blocked by the high court on Friday after it [...]
Afghans fear being left out in the cold
Ali M Latifi, Al Jazeera 28 Oct 2012 Akbar does not recall the date, but what he cannot forget are the deaths. On a particularly frigid day last year, at least six children – ranging from one month to five-years-old – froze to death in a camp for the internally displaced people in Charahi Qambar [...]
Afghanistan mosque suicide bomb attack kills at least 41
BBC News 26 October 2012 A suicide bomber targeted worshippers who had gathered at a mosque in north Afghanistan for prayers to mark Eid al-Adha, killing at least 41 people. More than 50 people were wounded in the attack, which happened as people were leaving the Eid Gah mosque in Maymana, capital of Faryab province. [...]
