| May 13, 2005 |
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| Unexpected success of youth team in regional tournament likely to bolster sport’s popularity. Institute for War & Peace Reporting By Mohammad Jawad Sharifzadah in Kabul |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: By Al Pessin |
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| Pentagon - The U.S. Defense Department says an inquiry has so far not confirmed an incident reported by Newsweek magazine, in which an interrogator at the Guantanamo detention facility allegedly put a Koran into a toilet in order to upset some prisoners. The department also says demonstrations in Afghanistan Wednesday and Thursday that left eight people dead and have been widely attributed to anger over the alleged incident, were in fact not related to it. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: Daan van der Schriek |
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| Riots and protests that have spread from Jalalabad to the Afghan capital in the wake of a report that US interrogators had desecrated the Koran have taken a political turn, with students demanding the government reject US intentions to create a permanent military presence there. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: Scott Baldauf - The Christian Science Monitor |
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| KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Back in the days of the Taliban, Mir Sediq was an engineer for Unocal, working on a pipe dream: bringing natural gas from Turkmenistan down through Afghanistan to Pakistani ports on the Arabian Sea. Today, Mr. Sediq is minister for Afghanistan's energy, mining, and industrial sector, and he's confident that the pipeline is coming close to reality. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: Eleanor Clift |
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| With Iraq exploding in fresh violence every day, the Bush administration likes to cite Afghanistan as a model of what is possible. Laura Bush made a secret visit to the country on March 30 to meet with 800 women in a dormitory built with U.S. aid at Kabul University, where they are living while they train to be teachers. When she returned, she appeared on the Jay Leno show to say how encouraged she was about the progress Afghan women had made since American bombs toppled the repressive Taliban regime. "I didn't see any women in burqas," she said. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: Scott Baldauf and Faye Bowers - The Christian Science Monitor |
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| KABUL, AFGHANISTAN; AND WASHINGTON - The case of an Afghan village police chief, named Inayatullah, is a small example of a much larger problem. Is Commander Inayatullah a courageous law-and-order crusader responsible for smashing the drug mafia in his hamlet? Or, is he an opium smuggler? Or, as his bosses say, is he both? |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: Matthew Ramsey - Vancouver Sun |
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| Silence fell over hundreds of mourners yesterday as a square of sunlight beaming from a mosque's rooftop window graced the corner of Nasrat Parsa's coffin. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
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| At least nine more people - including civilians and policemen - have been killed in a fourth day of anti-US protests in Afghanistan, officials say. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan and Afghanistan braced for fresh protests over the alleged desecration of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, as Washington moved to calm Muslim anger over the report. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: IRIN |
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| ISLAMABAD, 13 May (IRIN) - Pakistan needs more international technical and financial support to stem the flow of heroin from neighbouring Afghanistan - the biggest opium producing nation in the world. There is also a need to drastically reduce domestic drug production and a build a domestic capacity to counter drug-related crime in Pakistan, a top UN official said on Thursday. |
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| May 13, 2005 |
| By: AP |
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| Afghanistan has taken positive steps to fight its massive illegal drugs trade but it remains to be seen whether they would make a dent in this year's opium crop, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said. |
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