• Do not travel to Afghanistan due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, and armed conflict
  23 April

  U.S. official Travel Advisories
  Do not travel to Afghanistan due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, and armed conflict.
  Travel to all areas of Afghanistan is unsafe because of high levels of kidnappings, hostage taking, suicide bombings, widespread military combat operations, landmines, terrorist and insurgent attacks, including attacks using vehicle-borne or other improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Attacks have targeted official Afghan and U.S. government convoys and compounds, foreign (...)

• Toll of Conflict on Afghan Women Worsens
  20 July 2017, by Human Rights Watch

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  An Afghan woman walks past a damaged car after a suicide attack on French restaurant "Le Jardin" in Kabul, Afghanistan January 2, 2016. © 2016 Reuters
  Many more women are being killed and injured in Afghanistan today than a year ago, according to the United Nation’s latest civilian casualty report. They are casualties of an intensifying armed conflict that is also claiming more children as victims every year.
  As news outlets focus on increases in US troop numbers and policy shifts (...)

• Four Hazaras Killed in a Terror Attack in Pakistan
  19 July 2017, by Shayan

  Four Hazaras including a woman were killed and one other was injured in Mastung District of Balochistan on Wednesday, July 20, 2017.
  The incident happened early in the morning around 6:30 AM. A terrorist targeted the vehicle of the Hazara passengers who were traveling from Quetta to Karachi.
  The bodies were identified as Rukhshana Bibi, Shulam Sarwar, Muhammad Asif and Murta. It said that all the victims are members of the same family.
  Balochistan is one of the most dangerous place for (...)

• Military Justice for War Crimes in Afghanistan?
  17 July 2017, by Human Rights Watch

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  A British soldier looks through the scope of a machine gun to observe an area in Kabul, Afghanistan November 26, 2016. © 2016 Reuters
  It’s a familiar story: Soldiers blame the “fog of war” for civilian deaths. Sometimes it only takes one soldier with a conscience to reveal the truth, but it requires a government’s commitment to see justice done.
  That commitment seems sorely lacking in the United Kingdom, whose military has been dogged by allegations of killing of (...)

• First Hazaraghi Dambura Festival in Bamiyan
  10 July 2017, by admin

  by Sharif Ahmadi
  On July 7th and 9th the first Dambura Festival took place in Bamiyan. Thousands of women and men participated to one of biggest cultural event organized in the province. The Ulama council tried to prevent the event, claiming the Festival “un-islamic”, but protests spread on social media and the people of Bamiyan chose to enjoy the Festival.
  Here the photos of the Festival:
  During the Festival the famous musician Safdar Tawakoli has been awarded for his half a century’s (...)

• Forgetting About Girls in Afghanistan – Again
  7 July 2017, by Human Rights Watch

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  Members of Afghan robotics girls team which was denied entry into the United States for a competition, work on their robots in Herat province, Afghanistan July 4, 2017. © 2017 Reuters
  We want to make a difference and most breakthroughs in science, technology, and other industries normally start with the dream of a child to do something great.
  – Team Afghanistan’s statement on the competition website
  They seized the chance to study in a country that has long (...)

• Pentagon Admits Major Investigation Flaw: They Rarely Talk to Air Strike Witnesses or Victims
  30 June 2017, by Human Rights Watch

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  Smoke rises after a U.S. airstrike during the operation against Islamic State militants near Mosul, Iraq, October 24, 2016. © 2016 Reuters
  In a transcript of a Pentagon Press Briefing, released this week by Airwars, n.S. Central Command’s Deputy Director for Operations made a striking admission about U.S. investigations into civilian casualties in Syria:
  Q: Okay. So, you didn’t talk to anybody on the ground and nobody visited the site. Is that — that correct, (...)

• US General’s Photo Op with Accused Torturer in Afghanistan
  26 June 2017, by Human Rights Watch

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  A photo depicting General John Nicholson, Commander of United States forces in Afghanistan (C) with Kandahar’s General Abdul Raziq (R). © NATO/Resolute Support
  When it comes to cosying up to alleged torturers in Afghanistan, the United States military has been a slow learner.
  The US-led NATO Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan just published a photo of Gen. John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, sharing a laugh with Kandahar strongman Gen. (...)

• A tougher language test would punish women like my mother, who have lost everything
  26 June 2017, by admin

  by Abdul Karim Hekmat
  My mother studied Australian history and politics for months to pass the citizenship test. It was painful, to say the least.
  It’s easy for an English-speaking, white politician to legislate a language test for Australian citizenship that even someone born in Australia would find hard to pass. The biggest impact would be on migrants or refugees – my mother, for example. Khal Bibi Hekmat never had the opportunity to go to school in Afghanistan. I can’t imagine how she (...)

• The Safe Schools Declaration: Protecting Schools During Wartime
  22 June 2017, by Human Rights Watch

  The blood stains on the classroom walls couldn’t be washed away following the Taliban attack on the middle school in Postak Bazaar village in Afghanistan. ‘We had to chip it away from the wall with an axe,’ a school official told Human Rights Watch.
  But the blood wasn’t that of the school’s students. It was that of seven members of the Afghan National Police, a counter-insurgency force that had set up their military base inside the school. That attack was in 2010. After the Taliban retook the (...)

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