Category: afghanistan

  • Afghanistan Farm Production

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_DRUGS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Afghanistan opium cultivation skyrockets</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Afghanistan's world-leading opium cultivation rose a "staggering" 59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drugs chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.<br />n<br />nThe record crop yielded 6,100 tons of opium, or enough to make 610 tons…

  • Abuse Upon Abuse

    I warn you, this story is so tragic that it's almost hard to belive. What members of the human race do to one another I find more and more amazing the older I get.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/20060320/hz_afghanistan_0306/blogs2986">Child Bride</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He…

  • Freedom Not

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_CHRISTIAN_CONVERT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Afghan convert may be unfit for trial</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Wednesday amid growing international condemnation of the case.<br />n<br />nAbdul Rahman, 41, has been charged with rejecting Islam, a crime under…