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Bands from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Australia all took part in Afghanistan’s first music festival in more then 30 years this weekend – ‘Sound Central’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15142243Bands from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Australia all took part in... more
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Tight security has been imposed in the Afghan capital, Kabul, for the funeral of the assassinated former President, Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15033459Tight security has been imposed in the Afghan capital, Kabul, for the funeral of the... more
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Film synopsis:
Fazilla dreams of representing her country at an international sporting event
when she grows up. The only catch is that she is a skateboarder and lives in
Afghanistan.
Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul is a beautiful, verité style 16mm film about
the lives of two young skateboarders from Afghanistan. Twelve-year-old Fazilla
deals daily with the hardships of selling chewing gum on the street and the
general discrimination Afghani girls face. However, when she is skateboarding,
she forgets all her problems. Murza, a 16-year-old boy who has known nothing
but a lifetime of war, cannot see the violent situation changing any time soon.
But through participation in the Skateistan project, he has been able to give up
working at a car wash and now has high hopes for both himself and his
country’s future.
The Skateistan project is Afghanistan’s – and the world’s – first co-educational
skateboarding school. The school engages growing numbers of urban
and internally-displaced youth through skateboarding, and provides them
with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education and personal
empowerment. In a country with innumerable problems, Skateistan represents
an oasis where children can be children and where they can build the kinds of
cross-cultural/class relationships that Afghanistan needs for future stability.
Intimate and challenging in its portrayal of the children’s stories and stunningly
shot, Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is an inspiring story from a country
that is mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Watch Skateistan on Doc Heads Presents...
Starts Sunday 25th September, 9pm
Current TV
Sky 183, Virgin 155
http://current.com/docheadsFilm synopsis:
Fazilla dreams of representing her country at an international... more
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Fazilla dreams of representing her country at an international sporting eventwhen she grows up. The only catch is that she is a skateboarder and lives inAfghanistan.Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul is a beautiful, verité style 16mm film about the lives of two young skateboarders from Afghanistan. Twelve-year-old Fazilla deals daily with the hardships of selling chewing gum on the street and the general discrimination Afghani girls face. However, when she is skateboarding, she forgets all her problems. Murza, a 16-year-old boy who has known nothing but a lifetime of war, cannot see the violent situation changing any time soon. But through participation in the Skateistan project, he has been able to give up working at a car wash and now has high hopes for both himself and his country’s future.The Skateistan project is Afghanistan’s – and the world’s – first co-educational skateboarding school. The school engages growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education and personal empowerment. In a country with innumerable problems, Skateistan represents an oasis where children can be children and where they can build the kinds of cross-cultural/class relationships that Afghanistan needs for future stability.Intimate and challenging in its portrayal of the children’s stories and stunningly shot, Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is an inspiring story from a country that is mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Watch the Skateistan Video Diaries:
Play all episodes in this YouTube playlist.
Watch Skateistan on Doc Heads Presents...Sunday 25th September, 9pmCurrent TVSky 183, Virgin 155current.com/docheads
Fazilla dreams of representing her country at an international... more
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Film synopsis: Skateistan is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
Watch Skateistan on Doc Heads Presents...
Starts Sunday 25th September, 9pm
Current TV
Sky 183, Virgin 155Film synopsis: Skateistan is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group... more
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Suicide attackers have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least eight people and taking over the compound.
After a suicide car bomb destroyed the compound wall, a number of heavily armed men forced their way inside.
Gunfire can still be heard in the area, which was rocked by another explosion several hours after the attack began.
The Taliban said the attack marked the anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from the UK in 1919.
A UK Foreign Office spokeswoman later said: "We can confirm there was an attack against a British Council compound in Afghanistan.
"The embassy is co-ordinating with the Afghan authorities, who are dealing with the incident."
The eight victims of the attack were all thought to be Afghan policemen, authorities said, adding that four attackers have also died.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14585563Suicide attackers have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital,... more
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.Several attackers believed to be wearing suicide vests stormed a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, late Tuesday and early reports indicate that 10 people have been killed.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group was targeting foreign guests and that heavy casualties have been inflicted. However, the Taliban often exaggerates the number of casualties in attacks against Western and Afghan government targets.
Police said a wedding party was under way when the attack occurred. They said at least one suicide bomber blew himself up inside the hotel. However, witnesses reported at least three loud explosions and gunfire inside and outside the hotel.
Police blocked off streets leading to the hotel, situated on a hill overlooking the Afghan capital and said the entire area was in darkness.
Violence has flared across Afghanistan since the Taliban announced its spring offensive and the United States is set to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in the coming weeks.
In other violence Tuesday, NATO said three of its service members died in separate insurgent and bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.
Also in the south, authorities said a roadside bomb killed two women and wounded a child in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province..Several attackers believed to be wearing suicide vests stormed a luxury hotel in the... more
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The deadly protests in northern Afghanistan over a Quran burning spread to the country’s war-torn southern region on Saturday, with provincial government officials reporting at least nine civilians dead and dozens injured.The deadly protests in northern Afghanistan over a Quran burning spread to the... more
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Larry King a lizard?! Believe it, people. ZZ Top's mega-smashly successful tour of Afghanistan? Get the exclusive insider details right here in Episode 6.
The Stampede News. Honest Bullshit my friends.
Check out more episodes and more hilarity at www.stampedecomedy.comLarry King a lizard?! Believe it, people. ZZ Top's mega-smashly successful tour... more
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Child scavenges for family's survival in Afghanistan
By Arwa Damon, CNN
January 4, 2011 3:09 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Marjan, 5, scavenges for trash to help keep her family warm in the winter
* Marjan's brother died from the cold and her mother worries for the other children
* UNICEF says Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a child
* UNICEF: One in five children in Afghanistan do not live past the age of five
Kabul (CNN) -- Five-year-old Marjan sniffles from the cold as she struggles under her load. Hoisted on her back is a bag almost as big as she is.
Instead of going to school, Marjan scavenges for hours with her 10-year-old aunt collecting trash. It is a heavy burden for such a small child but a necessary one. The trash she collects is what her family uses as fuel for cooking and, more importantly, to fend off Kabul's bitter winter.
It is a matter of life and death for someone so young. Last winter, Marjan's baby brother died from the cold.
"It was dark and cold, and the baby died," she says softly, wiping her running nose. "I saw him dead and I was very sad, and I cried."
"I don't blame myself," Marjan's mother, Zarkharida, says. "We don't have firewood. I set fire to the garbage but it went out and my baby died."
Zarkharida's husband was killed in a family feud over land. She was forced to move in with relatives, already struggling to make ends meet. She built a one-room mud hut on a small piece of land.
"I wasn't able to properly cover the roof, this is why when the cold weather came my son died," she says.
Plastic tarp covers the roof, windows and doorway. She stitched a blanket from scraps of clothes given to her as charity. It is all she has to keep her family warm.
But Zarkharida fears this winter will claim another one of her children.
"Of course I am worried about my children's health," she says. "I am afraid they will get sick."
UNICEF, the UN children's agency, says that Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a child. One in five children do not live past the age of five. Afghanistan is second only to Sierra Leone when it comes to child mortality. Most of those deaths are caused by curable childhood diseases and malnutrition, compounded by the security situation, which means that parents are unable to access proper health care.
"It is very hard to put a hard and fast figure to the number of children dying from hypothermia alone on Kabul's streets as there would undoubtedly be other reasons that would make them sick or vulnerable in the first place," UNICEF regional communications chief Sarah Crowe wrote in an e-mail. "Extreme poverty, having lost a parent, being trafficked or displaced, or many other reasons may have forced them on to the streets where they would be deprived of their most basic needs (decent food, health, immunization, protection) and exposed to the extreme cold of Afghan winters."
Marjan is constantly blowing warm air on her hands, which are grimy and cracked from the cold. She kicks off her plastic, torn shoes and tries to warm her feet on the trash fire blazing under the kettle. But it is never enough.
A meal is scraps of bread and weak tea.
Even though she has never set foot in a classroom, Marjan dreams of being a teacher. She also loves to play with dolls. But in one of the world's poorest countries, she is, instead, responsible for her family's survival.Child scavenges for family's survival in Afghanistan
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Children may be safer growing up in Kabul than they are in London, Glasgow or New York, a Nato official said.Mark Sedwil, who is Nato's top civil representative told the young audience of CBBC's Newsround the Afghan capital was better for young people than many Western cities, despite being in a country at war. "Here in Kabul and other big cities [in Afghanistan] actually there are very few of these bombs."Most children can go about their lives in safety," he said.But some Kabul children interviewed spoke of their fears, and Save the Children said the claim was "wrong and misleading".Sohrad, a 16-year-old student, told Newsround: "Because of explosions happening in the city, it is frightening when we come to school. We are afraid of explosions in the school."The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office website advises against all but essential travel to parts of Afghanistan, and that nobody visits the areas worst-hit by fighting.Children may be safer growing up in Kabul than they are in London, Glasgow or New... more
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To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that
follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that
follows the lives of a group... more
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The U.S. government will spend $511 million to expand its embassy in Kabul, the U.S. ambassador said Wednesday, describing the work as a demonstration of America's long-term commitment to Afghanistan.
"We make this commitment by commemorating the recent award of a $511 million contract to expand the U.S. Embassy here in Kabul," Ambassador Karl Eikenberry said during a ceremony at the construction site that marked the formal announcement of the contract.
"We're going to get a day when that embassy's up and there's not going to be these barriers out there, there's no barbed wire, there's not going to be all kinds of obstacles out there," Eikenberry said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/11/03/us_to_spend_511_million_to_expand_kabul_embassy/The U.S. government will spend $511 million to expand its embassy in Kabul, the U.S.... more
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This happened right down the street from me, I actually saw the huge fire plume when I was going for my night run! Crazy, thought I would share.This happened right down the street from me, I actually saw the huge fire plume when I... more
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Two suicide bombers attacked a guest house in central Kabul Tuesday, killing three people, said Afghanistan's Interior Ministry.The house in the Taimani neighborhood was being used by a British security company, a local security service staff member told CNN.
LINK : http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/afghanistan.attack/index.html?hpt=T2#fbid=bOt3fX2Yirw&wom=falseTwo suicide bombers attacked a guest house in central Kabul Tuesday, killing three... more
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First look at the devastation caused by a car bomb that went off in Kabul, Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/v/4gogAGLLl1U&hl=en_US&fs=1First look at the devastation caused by a car bomb that went off in Kabul,... more
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