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Afghan Judge Recorded on Tape Seeking Bribe

Source: THISDAY LIVE, Dec 12 2012, 2:08pm CST

Dewa at her home in Jalalabad A senior judge in Afghanistan has been secretly recorded demanding money and marriage from a young woman seeking his help in her divorce case. In the recording the judge can be heard asking for over $2 ...

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4 hours ago

Afghan interpreters can live in UK

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 22 2013, 3:37pm CDT

LONDON: Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are to be given the right to live in the UK, government sources have confirmed. The plan marks a climbdown from ministers who had decided they should not get the same UK resettlem ...

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8 hours ago

Number of Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes' increasing, says human rights group

Source: New Kerala  |   May 22 2013, 11:28am CDT

Human Rights Watch said that many women are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence. According to the BBC, the group said other women are jailed for alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape. HRW sa ...

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22 weeks ago


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"He will say to your current husband... From now on I don't want to see your face, if you do show your face, I will shoot you in the head."


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9 hours ago

BBC pay: some movement but not enough

Source: BECTU  |   May 22 2013, 10:10am CDT

BECTU officials met with BBC managers this morning to progress talks on the pay review for 2013/14. An improvement on the earlier offer was tabled - a flat rate increase of £650, up £50 - however officials considered this movement far too low given the d ...

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11 hours ago

Afghan cricket captain's dad abducted

Source: The Daily Telegraph  |   May 22 2013, 8:36am CDT

Afghan cricketer Mohammad Nabi has confirmed his father has been abducted in Jalalabad. Picture: AFP Source: AFP UNKNOWN gunmen have dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalab ...

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Women rights at stake in Afghanistan

Source: SINA English  |   May 22 2013, 8:26am CDT

KABUL, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Some 200 students of Kabul University came to streets on Wednesday to voice their opposition over the possible endorsement of the controversial law on Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) e ...

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12 hours ago

Father of Afghan cricket captain taken hostage

Source: Bangkok Post  |   May 22 2013, 6:49am CDT

Unknown gunmen dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials said on Wednesday. Afghan cricketer Mohammad Nabi during the Twenty20 ...

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13 hours ago

Afghanistan’s Karzai Says ‘No Circumstances’ Allow Him to Seek Another Term

Source: The New York Times  |   May 22 2013, 6:16am CDT

NEW DELHI — Seeking to dispel widespread rumors that he would find a way to cling to power beyond the end of his second term next year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that there is “no circumstance that will allow me to stay ...

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14 hours ago

Afghan students protest women's rights decree

Source: Yahoo News: Business  |   May 22 2013, 4:50am CDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash agai ...

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15 hours ago

History repeating itself in Afghan conflict?

Source: CNN  |   May 22 2013, 4:36am CDT

"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN Fareed speaks with William Dalrymple, author of the new book ‘Return of A King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42,’ about what history can teach us abou ...

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