Entries Tagged 'AFGHANISTAN' ↓

Stop the killing, writes Malalai Joya, now 31, was the youngest member of the Afghan parliament, elected in 2005. In 2007 she was suspended from parliament because of her consistent criticism of the warlords and other human-rights abusers in the Karzai regime. Joya has survived five assassination attempts to date, and has written her life story in the book A Woman Among Warlords (with Derrick O’Keefe, Scribner, 2009). She writes from Kabul, Afghanistan.

according to David Millband in the NYRB.

“Violence of the most murderous, indiscriminate, and terrible kind started this Afghan war; politics will bring it to an end. A political settlement for Afghanistan must have two dimensions. First, a new and more inclusive internal political arrangement in which enough Afghan citizens have a stake, and the central government has enough power and legitimacy to protect the country from threats within and without. And second, on which the first depends, a new external settlement that commits Afghanistan’s neighbors to respect its sovereign integrity and that carries enough force and support to ensure that they abide by that commitment.”

who is? according to Wikipedia,

David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for South Shields since 2001, and is the current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for the U.K.

so argues Greg Miller in The Washington Post

So calculates Daniel Flitton, at The Age.

So reports The Herald via the NYT…

Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali. Shrouded…early spring morning from the hotel, Buddha monastery cave site, Bamiyan, Hazarajat, Afghanistan, 4/17/08.

See ArtDaily for an account of this exhibition at ROM in Toronto.

Read Dexter Filkins and Mark Lander at the NYT.

…read Bruce Riedel at The Daily Beast.

Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. He chaired the strategic review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009.

The ABC reports: The heir to the throne received a briefing from US commander General Stanley McChrystal before meeting a range of Afghan civic leaders. He held talks with Afghan community leaders and discussed projects to regenerate culture and the arts. Prince Charles wore body armour and travelled in an armoured convoy in the capital Kabul.

Read this account of the VWO (Voice of Women Organisation) in Afghanistan