· August, 2008

Stories about Afghanistan from August, 2008

Afghanistan: Child Sexual Abuse

Azar Balkhi says that child sexual abuse is becoming a disturbing widespread reality in Afghanistan, where traditionally the victim is the one to take the punishment, not the rapist.

29 August 2008

MENA: Veiled Athletes in Beijing

Despite the Saudi Arabia's decision to ban Saudi women from taking part in the Olympics this year, Blogger Dilshad D. Ali writes about the emergence of hijab (veil) at the...

26 August 2008

Afghanistan: Karzai Fingerpoint at NATO

Azar Balkhi reports that Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan yet again points finger at the NATO Forces without knowing the real story behind the confrontation that took place in...

25 August 2008

Afghanistan: The Road War

Joshua Foust examines the dual-use nature of national infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, and wonders how that might affect the counterinsurgency there.

22 August 2008

Afghanistan: Who killed Afghan Journalist

Baktash Siawashi, blogger and journalist from Afghanistan, writes [Fa] about the murder of Abdul Samad Rohani, an Afghan journalist, working for the BBC in Helmand province. He says Taliban,corrupted officials...

1 August 2008

Afghanistan: The Karzai Democracy

The Rumi tells more about Latif Pedram, a poet, author of many books and the leader of National Congress Party of Afghanistan, who has been under house arrest for the...

1 August 2008