So you think you’re Afghan?

You were born in Afghanistan, raised in the west, considered yourself  ‘Afghan’ all your life. You decide to come to ‘Kabuljan’ for a holiday. You hang around, dressed in your peraan tomban thinking you fit in and that these people don’t know you’re from ‘khaarij’. Think again… Body of abducted Afghan-American found in well Pajhwok [...]

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Moisturising my blog…

So, I was told that my blog is ‘drying up’. And now here I am to water/moisturise it.  Kabul has been very relaxed lately. It’s great, but I can’t help the itty bitty pessimism in me and think that a big explosion is bound to happen anytime soon. Especially with the upcoming elections just around [...]

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Attorney General for President?

  Yes, yes, yes! Karzai removes Sabit from attorney-general post Written by www.quqnoos.com Wednesday, 16 July 2008  Attorney-general forced to resign after signalling intent to run for president Karzai has fired Afg’s attorney General- Abdul Jabar Sabit. Personally i like Sabit, he’s very firm and won’t put up with anybody’s rubbish! I don’t think ‘democracy’ [...]

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Let her out, Mr President.

She’s hidden. She’s concealed. She’s Afghanistan’s first lady. She’s Zenat Karzai. But where exactly is she? Hidden in a house which has been cordoned off by four security check points, two body searches and a secret code. It could be the security situation that has prevented Zenat Karzai from coming out to the public, but [...]

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Homaira Rahman

The body of a 25-year-old Afghan woman, Humaira Rahman,  was found on the sidewalk of a cul-de-sac in the Vienna area early yesterday, and Fairfax County police said they charged a man, Ehsan Amin, with abduction and murder in the case. My heart goes out to her family. I hope she’s forgiven and granted heaven. Please [...]

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Poverty pushes Afghan girls into sex trade

Media: AP Byline: Alisa Tang Date: 14 June 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan – The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she started selling sex. Afghanistan is one of the world’s most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be [...]

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Making peace with Shariah

“Is Sharia compatible with justice? The answer, of course, is yes,” he said. “But can it be abused? Also yes.”  Keeping the Sharia Peace Washington Post, United States, Posted by Jack Fairweather February 29, 2008 Sharia law gets bad press in the West. It’s the body of law drawn from the Koran, reported sayings of [...]

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Islams silent majority

Terrorism: Islam or Politics? Samuel Harris said in the Washington Times (in 2004): ‘It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. About 93 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, based on more than 50,000 interviews. Meanwhile, [...]

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the ‘D’ word

Danishgah, danishkada, daanishmand, daanishjoyan… Say these words on Afghan TV and you’re busted. Three Afghan journalists working for government-owned media have been fined five days salary for using words from the wrong language (Persian). and for not “observing cultural and Islamic principles”. Abdul Basir Babai had been reprimanded for using three words from Persian, as [...]

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Suicide bombers- the real deal

Two mentally disabled women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage to two Baghdad pet bazaars, killing at least 99 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the Iraqi capital with extra troops last year. …al-Qaeda in Iraq might be increasingly desperate and running short of [...]

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