Afghan 14-year-old has her foetus aborted with a razor

Sunday, 11 January 2009, 17:44 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Not long ago, I posted this - a report about an Afghan father, who is fighting for justice for his teenage daughter, who is a rape victim. It takes a lot of guts to go against the social system like that.
But, alas, not all of the teenage rape stories from Afghanistan are like that. Some [...]

Life in Afghanistan

Sunday, 4 January 2009, 14:11 | Category : Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff, Slices
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This is an article about Afghanistan’s continuing problems. It’s generally sad, but I was particularly shocked to read this paragraph:
On the road into Kabul from Jalalabad - on the dangerous route from Pakistan and the Khyber Pass - I sat on a woven plastic mat drinking green tea from glass cups with a group of [...]

BOOK DIARY: December 2008, some fiction at last ;)

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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Language: English
What It’s About
It’s a novel about a boy (Aamir) who grows up in Afghanistan and moves to America with his father when the Soviet war breaks out. He has a very guilty secret that he has to eventually atone for by going back to Afghanistan during the Taliban [...]

Kabul and the 5mln people who live there

Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 19:59 | Category : Crumbs, Uncategorized
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I reckon it’s going be quite some time before Al Jazeera takes its Street Food series to Afghanistan ;-P So for the time being, this BBC report will have to do ;) I really hope that one day Kabul will be as safe as any other major city I’ve been to *sigh* (and I hope [...]

British Army Medical Personnel in Afghanistan

Monday, 29 December 2008, 14:57 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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This is a very nice audio report about the work of the British medical personnel in Afghanistan.

How to Run Agents in Afghanistan?

Saturday, 27 December 2008, 16:04 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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You give Afghan warlords Viagra in exchange for information *grin*

More US troops in Afghanistan - will it help?

Below is what I felt is a really interesting debate - a former prime minister of Afghanistan, a Pakistani security expert and an American journalist discuss the increase of troops. The guests are chosen very well in that they really represent completely different attitudes and points of view - each of them is coming from [...]

The situation of women better in Nimruz province than elsewhere in Afghanistan

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 12:10 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Kabul Express aka Bollywood telling Afghan war stories

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Kabul Express (India, 2006)
Seen: Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 (DVD)
Runtime: 106′
Polish Distributor: None yet (AFAIK)
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum, Linda Arsenio
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Two Indian journalists and an American one are looking for news stories in Afghanistan. They have an Afghan guide and are sort of [...]

My first taste of Afghani cinema

I’m behind with my “film diary” as usual :] My last weekend was very intense due to the Polish National Championships in Figure Skating about which I’ll hopefully write more later *grin*
So anyway - all the films in this post were viewed on the 22nd of November. I hope I remember them well enough to [...]