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A Taliban bomb in western Afghanistan on Tuesday killed ten women and one man travelling in a three-wheel vehicle, officials said, adding that at least four children are also among the injured.

"The three-wheel vehicle was struck by a roadside mine planted by the Taliban as it was on its way from Obe district centre to a nearby village," Sher Agha, the police chief Obe district, Herat province, told AFP.

"As a result, ten women and one man were killed; four children, one man and one woman were also injured."


Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 09 Jul 2013 17:19
 
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5 children, 1 woman killed by Bomb: Afghan Official

An Afghan official says a bomb blast has killed five children and a woman related to a Taliban commander. The children were playing with the bomb that the insurgent left inside his home.

Paktika governor's spokesman Mokhlis Afghan said Friday that the incident occurred in the Mata Khan district inside the house of a Taliban commander named Abdullah.

The commander had assembled a roadside bomb and left it inside his home, which he shared with relatives. It exploded when the children, from three to seven years old, began playing with it.

The spokesman said the bomb exploded Thursday morning.

The five children belonged to Abdullah's brother and wife, the spokesman said. The woman was the Taliban commander's sister. He had no other details.


Source : Sapa-AP /pk
Date : 19 Jul 2013 11:35
 
Zero sympathy from me.

They want to allow a family member who makes bombs & kills people to live in their home along with their family & children - what did they expect.
 
9 Afghans killed, 20 injured by roadside bomb

Nine Afghans including six civilians were killed in Afghanistan Monday, officials said.

A police official, two guards and six pedestrians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Zabul province, deputy provincial governor Mohammad Jan Rasolyar said.

He said the deputy police chief was the target of the bombing that occurred Sunday evening.

Twelve civilians, mostly children, were wounded by the explosion in a residential area, he said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The NATO-led forces also said one foreign soldier died Sunday in combat in central Afghanistan.


Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 29 Jul 2013 07:44
 
Afghan Army says 50 Insurgents killed in Offensive

Afghanistan's army said Tuesday said that 50 insurgents including foreign fighters were killed during a "massive operation" by security forces in the eastern region.

The Defence Ministry said the dead rebels included Pakistani, Arab, Uzbek and Chechen nationals.

It said the offensive in the provinces of Nangarhar, Paktia and Logar was proceeding "successfully and accordingly."

On Monday, the ministry claimed that it had killed more than 80 insurgents in the region.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied that any of their fighters had died during the Afghan army operation.


Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 30 Jul 2013 08:49
 
Four Civilians killed, 22 injured in Afghan Bombing

At least four civilians were killed and 22 others wounded Monday when a bomb placed in a busy area went off in southern Afghanistan, an official said.

"The explosives hidden in a hand-cart in a crowded bazaar in Kandahar city, detonated at 9 am (0430 GMT)," said Javed Faisal, spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province.

"It is not clear yet how the explosives blew up, but a remote-control device has been found in the pocket of a dead person," Faisal told dpa.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Insurgent attacks have increased recently in Afghanistan, while people prepare for the Eid festival that follows Ramadan.

Nine civilians, eight of them children, were killed and 22 injured on Saturday in a suicide bombing near the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad. On Sunday, 16 people including the provincial prosecutor of Nangarhar were injured in a roadside bombing in the same city.


Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 05 Aug 2013 08:35
 
Bomb hidden in cart kills 4 in S Afghanistan

An Afghan provincial official says a bomb hidden inside a cart in a livestock market has killed four civilians in the country's south.

Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor, another 10 were wounded by the blast in the city of Kandahar. It was not clear what the bomb was targeting.

Violence has escalated in recent months, with insurgents trying to take advantage of the transfer of security responsibility from foreign to Afghan forces as the international coalition withdraws from Afghanistan.

As a result, the U.N. says, civilian casualties rose dramatically in the first six months of 2013.


Source : Sapa-AP /pk
Date : 05 Aug 2013 09:55
 
Bodies of 8 abducted Afghans found

A provincial official says the bodies of eight Afghans abducted last week and then killed by insurgents have been found, dumped along the country's main north-south highway.

Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, deputy governor of Ghazni province, said Tuesday the eight men were civilians snatched off a bus by insurgents during last week's Eid al-Fitr holiday that marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Insurgents regularly pull over buses travelling on the highway from the capital, Kabul, to southern Kandahar province looking for government employees, who they then either shoot or hold for ransom.

The Taliban have said government employees, Afghan troops and those who work for the NATO-led international coalition are targets.

Afghan civilian casualties have spiked this year as the Taliban stepped up their campaign of violence.


Source : Sapa-AP /sdv
Date : 13 Aug 2013 15:58
 
Taliban kills 15 policeman in Western Afghanistan

Taliban insurgents killed 15 police on the main highway in western Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, in the latest attack to highlight a recent escalation in rebel strikes as NATO-led troops withdraw.

"A convoy of police who went to inspect a highway patrol unit were caught in a Taliban ambush on Wednesday," Farah province spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhuwandi told AFP.

"There was fighting between them in which 15 national police were killed and 10 wounded, while several Taliban were also killed."


Source : Sapa-AFP /pk
Date : 29 Aug 2013 10:13
 
50-100 Afghan Soldiers killed every week: US General

About 50 to 100 Afghan soldiers are killed in battle every week but the high casualty rate does not mean the country's forces are at the breaking point, a US general said Wednesday.

"The Afghan security forces are suffering more casualties, no question about it," Lieutenant General Mark Milley said by video link from Afghanistan.

Milley, the deputy commander of US forces in Afghanistan, said "somewhere in the range of 50 to 100 or so Afghan security forces are killed in action per week."

"And that's not at all insignificant. That is significant. And we're paying attention to that," he said.

The general said the casualty rate approached losses suffered by American forces in the Vietnam War, a conflict that claimed the lives of about 58,000 US troops.

NATO's US-led force is working to help Afghan army and police improve their tactics, conduct medical evacuations and counter roadside bombs to "minimize" casualties, Milley said.

As Afghan forces employ more helicopters, artillery and mortars, their casualties are expected to decline, he said.

But Afghan forces were resilient and could withstand the casualties because he said they were determined to prevent Taliban militants from taking back political power, he added.

"They're hard. They're tough. And I don't think the rates of casualties, although significant, I don't think that's going to shatter or break the security force," said Milley, the head of the NATO-led force's joint command.

The top commander of NATO and US forces, General Joseph Dunford, voiced concern at casualties being suffered by Afghan forces in an interview with the Guardian published Tuesday.

"I'm not assuming that those casualties are sustainable," Dunford told the British daily.

The casualty rate for Afghan forces surpasses that for US forces during the most deadly year for the NATO-led force in 2010, when about 500 American troops lost their lives in the war.

So far this year, about 100 US troops have been killed in action.

Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces are suffering a steep rise in attacks as the NATO mission winds down.

About 57,000 US troops are deployed in Afghanistan and the bulk of allied forces are due to withdraw in 2014, with tentative plans for a small contingent to remain afterward.

Milley said Islamist militants fighting Kabul remained resilient but were not in a position to score a decisive victory and take back control of the country after NATO forces depart.

"I do not think at this point in time, with the strength and capability of the Afghan security forces, that the Taliban or any of their allies have the capability to re-seize political power in the country of Afghanistan under current conditions," he said.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 04 Sep 2013 20:58
 
Shiite mosque attacked in Afghanistan

At least three Afghan civilians were injured in an attack on a Shiite mosque in western Kabul early Thursday, which the intelligence agency blamed on Pakistani gunmen.

"Two Pakistani terrorists in Afghan police uniform equipped with AK-47s and pistols attacked on worshippers at Imam Hassan Mujtaba Mosque in Dasht-e-Barchi area of western Kabul," the National Directorate of Security said in a statement.

Both insurgents were killed after a short clash with security forces, according to the Afghan spy agency.

There has been relatively little sectarian violence in Sunni-dominated Afghanistan for the past two years, with most of the hostilities directed at foreign troops or representatives of the post-Taliban government.

In 2011, more than 80 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine in Kabul during a religious festival.

Kabul has long accused Islamabad of allowing terrorists to establish bases in Pakistan and launch strikes over the border against international and Afghan forces.

Also Thursday, President Hamid Karzai condemned the "terrorist attack" that killed a prominent religious scholar and his two sons.

Maulavi Noor ul Haq, 85, was killed late Tuesday night at home in Ghazni province, just south of Kabul, officials said.

Karzai said the Taliban "have been assigned by their foreign masters to defame and tarnish the image of Islam.

"They are directed to target mosques and religious ceremonies and to kill religious scholars."


Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 05 Sep 2013 11:36
 
Taliban deny shooting Indian Author

The Taliban Friday denied it was involved in the killing of an Indian woman in eastern Afghanistan, who wrote a popular memoir about her escape from their clutches.

Sushmita Banerjee, 49, was married to an Afghan businessman, and had written a memoir on a dramatic escape from the Taliban which inspired a Bollywood film in 2003.

"The lady with the Indian name Sushmita Banerjee living in the outskirts of Sharana city, was dragged out of her house by Taliban militants Wednesday night and was shot dead," Mokhles Afghan, spokesman for the governor of Paktika province said.

"She had been living in Paktika province for about 20 years and had converted to Islam after marrying an Afghan national Janbaz Khan," Afghan said, adding that her body was found in the provincial capital Sharana.

He said her husband and children were not hurt.

The Indian Embassy in Kabul confirmed Banerjee's death.

The Taliban, however, denied any hand in Banerjee's killing. "We reject any claims regarding the mujahideen's (freedom fighters) involvement in the killing of the Indian lady," spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told dpa.

"We even don't know the culprits," Mujahid said.

Banerjee, who had converted to Islam and renamed herself as Sayeda Kamala, retained her Indian citizenship and was a health worker in Afghanistan, the Times of India newspaper reported.

Banerjee's book Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife) originally published in Bengali in 1998 and subsequently in English has sold has sold 700,000 copies according to the Kolkata-based publisher Bhasha o Sahitya.

"She was a brave and courageous woman and has written two other memoirs based on her experiences in Afghanistan," a spokesman for the publisher said.

"She has written things that are unpleasant for the Taliban in her book and by returning to Afghanistan she put herself at risk ... it was a brave but not a wise decision," Kolkata-based author Nabanita Dev Sen who knew Banerjee said.


Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 06 Sep 2013 09:51
 
Indian Author killed in Afghanistan ignored friends' pleas

Friends and family of an Indian writer executed by suspected Taliban told Friday how she insisted on returning to Afghanistan despite fears her life could be in danger.

Sushmita Banerjee, whose account of her escape from the Taliban two decades ago was turned into a hit movie, had only recently moved back to southern Afghanistan to live with her Afghan husband Jaanbaz Khan.

But her bullet-riddled body was discovered on Thursday close to her husband's home in the province of Paktika in what Afghan police suspect was an act of revenge by the militant Islamist movement.

Police said Banerjee had been dragged outside late in the night and shot 20 times, adding that masked men had tied up the writer and her husband before executing her.

Speaking at the family home in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata where the writer had been living until her return to Afghanistan in January, her brother Gopal Banerjee spoke of his grief.

"We are shocked and shattered after the news of our sister's death came to us on Thursday evening," Gopal Banerjee told AFP.

"My sister decided to return to Afghanistan after Jaanbaz convinced her that the situation had changed in Afghanistan and that no harm would come to her.

"We warned her against going back, but she was determined. She also said that she had some work to do there."

The Indian writer Subodh Sarkar, who was a close friend of Banerjee, said he had warned the 49-year-old that she would find herself in the Taliban's crosshairs if she did return to Afghanistan.

"I warned that Taliban militants would kill her when she expressed her desire to return to the country early this year," Sarkar told AFP.

"She did not listen to us. We have lost a rebellious writer."

Banerjee, who was 49, wrote unflinchingly about her ordeal both at the hands of the Islamist movement and of her husband's family who at one stage kept her under house arrest when Jaanbaz left Afghanistan on a business trip.

Her book "Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife", which was later turned into a 2003 Bollywood movie, recounts how she eventually managed to escape to the Afghan capital Kabul and take refuge in the Indian embassy.

Gopal Banerjee said that his sister appeared to have reconciled with her in-laws when he last spoke to her.

"After I'd expressed my usual apprehensions, she said she was enjoying her life in Afghanistan," he said. "She even invited us to her in-laws' home."

Reports have said that Banerjee moved back to Afghanistan to run a health clinic for women there.

However her publisher Swapan Biswas said she was planning on writing a new book.

"When I met her early this year, she said she was going to Afghanistan to stay with her in-laws and collect materials for her next book," Biswas said.

"She was a very talented writer."


Source : Sapa-AFP /lk
Date : 06 Sep 2013 12:27
 
One cant expect much else from a hoard of savages whose user guide advocates the beating of woman to disciple ( and of course restore the alpha male's honor)

In the street:[video=youtube;iSoU0yd9m7Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoU0yd9m7Y[/video]
 
Roadside bomb hits bus killing 7

An Afghan official says a bus that took a detour to avoid one roadside bomb instead hit another in a central province, killing seven people, including three children.

Assadullah Ensafi says the explosion occurred in the Muqur district of Ghazni province on Tuesday morning. He says 17 people were injured in the explosion.

Ensafi, the provincial deputy police chief, says the bus was heading to Kabul from southern Helmand province.

It took a detour through a desert area because the road it would usually take was closed so NATO troops could defuse a bomb.

Also Tuesday, a suicide car bomb went off in front of an Afghan National Army security post in Logar province's Khushi district.

Deputy police chief Rais Khan Abdul Rahimzai says the explosion wounded four Afghan soldiers.


Source : Sapa-AP /pk
Date : 10 Sep 2013 11:49
 
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