KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday asked the government to release the findings of investigations into honour killings and rape cases and amend the criminal law. The AIHRC released its report that said 406 cases of honour killings…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The provincial council chief was among more than a dozen people killed in a suicide attack that left another 10 people wounded in northern Baghlan province on Monday, officials said. The senior public representative, Mohammad Rassoul Mohseni, was…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Twin bomb explosions rocked southern Kandahar province on Friday evening, killing and wounding dozens of people, officials said. At least nine bodies and 70 wounded people have been brought to the Mirwais Civil Hospital in Kandahar City…
HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning at the central jail in western Herat province. Satisfied with the punishment, parents of the…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A runaway woman was shot dead during a clash between security personnel and robbers in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Friday. Shabnam, hailing from Mazar-i-Sharif, eloped with Kabul resident Naveed to Takhar province on…
JALALABAD (PAN): Thousands of people rallied in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, against Pakistan on Thursday, supporting Afghan security forces. Afghan forces pulled down a border gate following a seven-hour clash with Pakistani troops in the Goshta district…
KABUL): The United Nations on Friday asked the US to close the Guantánamo detention centre, calling the indefinite incarceration of detainees a clear violation of international law. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said: “I am deeply disappointed…
KABUL (PAN): A suicide bomber exploded his explosives-packed motorbike at the entrance of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the heavily fortified Kabul city on Saturday, killing at least nine people, including military officials and civilians, an official said. At…
KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced its deep concern over plummeting people's access to justice and law enforcement agencies, claiming 45 percent decline in the access ratio last year. AIHRC chief Mohammad Musa Mahmoudi…
KABUL’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced its deep concern over plummeting people's access to justice and law enforcement agencies, claiming 45 percent decline in the access ratio last year. AIHRC chief Mohammad Musa Mahmoudi told a press…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced concern over the execution of Afghan nationals in Iran, urging the government to step up diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue. A day earlier, scores of people participated in…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 26-year-old resident of southern Helmand province, Noor Ahmad, who was released from 45 days in Afghan Taliban's captivity in the southern Pakistani city of Quetta, described the period the most disturbing in his life as he lost…
KABUL (PAN) Dozens of Afghan women rally to denounce violence against women in Kabul on Thursday. The demonstrators want violence against women to be abolished or at least decreased in Afghanistan, but unfortunately it is increasing day to day, rights…
KABUL was no longer subjected to genocidal acts. Drafted by a Hazara poet, Kamran Mir Hazar, the letter, also addressed to EU leaders, said for more than a century, the community in Afghanistan and Pakistan had been victim of systematic…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN have been killed since March 2012 in northern Kunduz province, where 70 cases of violence against women were registered over the past 10 months, officials said on Monday. Last year, there were 125 cases of violence in…
KABUL as the worst form of violence. Sima Samar, the rights watchdog head, told a gathering in Kabul that the violations were linked a low level of awareness and poor law enforcement. She informed the audience, including representatives of civil…
KABUL (PAN): Seven civilians and four armed rebels were killed during a predawn operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, officials said. The governor's office said the raid was carried out by Afghan and foreign…
KABUL (IWA) on Sunday said there is no political will to tackle corruption in the country so the public should take the initiative. While observing the International Anti‐Corruption Day, the head of IWA, Yama Torabi, said the government has not…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The Independent Human Rights Commission voiced concern over the swelling civilian casualties, saying security incidents over the past month had increased in the northern zone. A statement from the human rights’ office in Mazar-i-Sharif said most victims of…
KABUL): The Human Rights Watch slammed a proposed Afghan medial law and urged the government to withdraw the bill as it would stifle media freedom in the war-torn country. In a statement, the New York-based rights group said the draft…
CHICAGO (PAN’s rights. On the eve of the Chicago summit, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement Afghan security forces still committed serious abuses, including killings, torture, and arbitrary detentions, with little fear of consequences. NATO should call for…
KABUL): Support from warlords and a complete absence of government check have allowed the US-funded local police force to commit criminal acts and violate human rights in the country, officials alleged on Saturday. Although the Ministry of Interior spurned the…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A Tribal militiaman killed his wife for giving birth to a baby girl in the northern province of Kunduz , officials said on Monday. Sher Mohammad, 30, strangled his 22 years old spouse, Storai, with the help…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in last nine months of the Afghan year, an official said on Tuesday. During the same period last year, 219 cases were registered, showing a 41 percent increase, Latifa Sultani, the women's rights programme…
