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Debate on bill to protect Afghan women from violence halted after complaints it is ‘against Islamic teaching’
The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching. The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a…
Counting begins in landmark Pakistan elections
Counting got underway Saturday in Pakistan’s landmark elections after millions of people defied deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition in the nuclear-armed state. Polling stations officially closed at 6:00 pm (1300 GMT) after a “huge turnout” in Punjab, the biggest province, capping a dramatic day…
NATO air strike kills Afghan police and civilians
A NATO air strike killed four Afghan police and two civilians on Thursday, Afghan officials said. A spokesman for the US-led NATO force in Kabul told AFP that the military was checking the information. The attack happened after Taliban insurgents attacked a local police post in eastern Ghazni province before…
Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai to write her life story
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is to tell her life story in a book due out later this year, the publishers said Thursday, in a deal reportedly worth around three million dollars. The book will be entitled “I Am Malala”. “I hope…
Taliban threatens to kill Musharraf when he returns to Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday threatened to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf when he returns to the country to contest elections after nearly five years in self-imposed exile. The 69-year-old escaped three assassination attempts when in office from 1999 to 2008, a target of Islamist extremists because of his…
Afghan president: U.S. and Taliban ‘in talks on a daily basis’
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday criticised the Taliban for holding daily talks with the United States as they also launch suicide attacks that kill civilians and children. The Islamist militants deny re-opening talks after they broke off tentative contact with the US in Qatar in March last year due…
Pakistan’s Taliban bans ‘obscene films’ and Viagra
The Pakistani Taliban have warned shopkeepers in a popular market to stop selling “obscene films” and Viagra-style male potency pills. Shopkeepers told sources on Monday that they found handwritten pamphlets containing the warnings after opening on Saturday in Karkhano market on the edge of the northwestern city of Peshawar. “Selling…
Taliban retaliates after Prince Harry compares fighting to video games
Afghan militants scornful of Queen’s grandson, saying helicopter co-pilot ‘doesn’t have the brain to know there is a war here’ Prince Harry’s remarks that his job as a co-pilot in an Apache attack helicopter required him to “take a life to save a life” may have disconcerted some squeamish westerners.…
Peace talks with Taliban haven’t begun, says U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
There are no significant peace talks under way with the Taliban, the US ambassador to Afghanistan has said, despite years of western and Afghan government efforts to broker a political end to the decade-long war in the country, and some recent signs of progress. James Cunningham, the US Ambassador in…
Police trap reveals how Afghan ‘insider attacks’ work
The Taliban believed Beyar Khan Weyaar was the perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given a rare insight into suicide bombing tactics. Weyaar, a low-ranking police officer in the eastern province of Paktika, was approached in November…
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