| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Juergen Dahlkamp - Der Spiegel |
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| The dream of what could be happiness is still on view on the wall above the sofa: a page of a calendar showing a silver finished BMW 3Series car. Yet on the table is the decision by Hamburg's authority for foreigners saying that it will all soon be over - life in Germany and silvery dreams anyway. "You are explicitly informed that your deportation may take place at any time, also at short notice, after 1 May 2005," the letter reads. Male, single and forced to leave: Ali Sherzad, 19, is due to return to Afghanistan. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: David Gollust Washington |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday disrespect for the Koran is abhorrent and will never be tolerated by the United States. She urged Muslims around the world to reject incitement over charges that interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have desecrated the Islamic holy text. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
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| The head of the UN anti-drug agency says Afghanistan needs to do much more to fight the sharp rise in heroin production of the past few years. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Islamabad |
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| A top UN official on drug control said here on Thursday that opium production in Afghanistan during the Taliban militia rule had been double. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: M K Bhadrakumar / Asia Times Online |
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| Three successive waves of political Islam have swept over Central Asia during the 15-year period since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. They might seem dissimilar. But they have common elements - the most important being that they all had extra-regional profiles, even as they sought a habitation and name in the region. To the naked eye, they appear as interpolators on a civilization that was historically eclectic. They are the monstrous progenies of "foreign devils on the Silk Road" - of Central Asia's globalization. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Afghanistan Coalition Press Information Center (Public Affairs) |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – U.S. Marines have confirmed that 15 insurgents were killed May 8 in a five-hour gun battle between insurgents and U.S. Marines in Laghman Province. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Reuters |
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| MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, May 12 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Pakistani tribesmen chanted anti U.S. and Pakistan slogans on the Afghan border on Thursday when they buried two militants killed in a battle with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, witnesses said. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Afghanistan Coalition Press Information Center (Public Affairs) |
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| HERAT PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Changes are taking place on the borders of Afghanistan and one man is leading the way. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Kabul Times |
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| (Kabul Times) Unidentified men set fire to the house of a female candidate for the September parliamentary elections in the village of Porak, Logar province, on May 9. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| BY: FCO Minister, Dr. Kim Howells, at the Wilton Park Conference |
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Source: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 12 May 2005
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I'm certainly delighted to be here with you this afternoon, this my first public engagement, and am particularly grateful that so many experts from around the world have been able to join us. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: - Pajhwok news |
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| The Interior Ministry said on Thursday if provided with requisite funds it could issue Afghan nationals computerized identity cards. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| KABUL, May 12 (AFP) - Three more people were killed in eastern Afghanistan Thursday in protests against the alleged US abuse of the Koran, raising the death toll from three days of unrest to seven, officials said. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| KABUL, May 12 (AFP) - A candidate in Afghanistan's first post-Taliban parliamentary elections and his driver were killed in a firefight in southern Ghazni province which also left two militants dead, an official said Thursday. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| KABUL, May 12 (AFP) - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a transmission tower belonging to Afghanistan's main mobile phone company in a pre-dawn attack Thursday, the provincial governor said. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: Reuters |
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| BRUSSELS, May 12 (Reuters) - The European Union, one of Afghanistan's largest donors, announced the last tranche of a 1 billion euro ($1.29 billion) aid package to the poor Muslim state on Thursday and pledged more help in future. |
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| May 12, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| BRUSSELS, May 12 (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that he hoped opium poppy production in his country would drop by around a quarter in 2005. |
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