AFGHANISTAN
Chaos abides.
Insurgents torched a newly built school for refugee children in eastern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, in the first such attack in 2007 blamed on Taleban militants. Article
The high cost of incessant trauma.
‘Taliban’, ‘Gori Fauz’ (white forces) and Hamid Karzai form an integral part of daily lexicon of the people fed up with the miseries inflicted on them for the past three decades of wars and internal conflicts. During a five minute chat, local people repeat these words dozens of time and keep their fingers crossed for lasting peace.
Some of them, fed up with the uncertain situation, start a conversation punctuated with these words, but end up spewing abuses at all those endangering innocents lives and robbing the region of peace. Article
Tug of, um, war.
Taliban fighters have captured Khak-e-Safid district in the western Farah province, but latest reports say government forces took back control of the district Monday morning.
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Heavily armed Taliban fighters came in six pick-ups last evening and took the main government compound at the district, but they were forced out after reinforcements reached and attacked the fighters in predawn hours, said Saqib. The Taliban have taken hostage the district police chief when leaving. Saqib expressed concern about fate of the Khak-e-Safid police chief who fell in hands of the Taliban. Article
