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Afghanistan's Karzai gives India military equipment 'wish list'
ReutersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he had given a "wish list" of military equipment to India during a visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs whether arming the Afghan army is in its interests....Tags: Armed Conflicts, Military Equipment, Pakistan, Taliban, Wars and Interventions
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Afghan women's rights in peril, group says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50% in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women'...
Tags: Executive Branch, Wars and Interventions, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Bombings
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A moving novel about families
"And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Books, 416 pages, $28.95. Khaled Hosseini is the author of both "Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," which together have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide. "And the Mountains...Tags: Authors, Literature, Nabi
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Sharp rise in number Afghan women in prison for "moral crimes"
ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago. Running away from home, usually from abuse...Tags: Parliament, Sex Crimes, Human Rights, Prisons, Taliban
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With end of Afghan war in sight, Europe pushes business
ReutersHERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next year....Tags: Ice Cream, Italy, European Union, International Organizations, Afghanistan
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Pepsi to march in, as foreign troops leave Afghanistan
ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - PepsiCo will open its first plant in Afghanistan in 2014, its Afghan partner said on Monday, the same year foreign troops complete their withdrawal from the country after 13 years of war. "It will go on stream in 2014," Hamed Kakar,...Tags: Pakistan, Coca-Cola Co., Plant Openings, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Suicide, Pakistan, Landforms, Taliban
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Boot gripe prompted retaliation, says isle airman
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserAll he wanted was some American-made boots. An Air Force noncommissioned officer who complained to Congress, military investigators and the media that he was issued Chinese-made boots for an Afghanistan deployment now says he is being retaliated against...Tags: Interior Policy, Trials, Gun Control, Sage, Personal Weapon Control
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Khaled Hosseini goes to heart of characters' desires
St. Louis Post-DispatchKhaled Hosseini's first novel, "The Kite Runner," became a sensation in 2003. Hosseini, now 48, was able to stop working as a physician while writing his second novel, "A Thousand Spendid Suns." He says he struggled with the second book, in part,...Tags: Afghanistan
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Hosseini's latest is moving family story
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe story that Khaled Hosseini tells in "And the Mountains Echoed" is one of loss and love -- in that order. At its heart, this tale spells out what happens when a brother and sister are torn apart as children -- a father's choice to do what he hopes is...Tags: Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Literature, Nabi, Book, Afghanistan
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Afghanistan's Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid tensions with Pakistan
ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan....Tags: Pakistan, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, India, NATO
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UPDATE 1-Afghanistan's Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid tensions with Pakistan
Reuters(Adds Pakistan ex-brigadier comment) By Hamid Shalizi KABUL, May 19 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are...Tags: Pakistan, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, NATO, India
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