http://www.payam-aftab.com Latest Content AboutAfghanistan, Afghan, Kabul, kandahar, afghans, mazar, afghanistan, Iran, karzai, Talib, Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Osama, bin, Laden, Pakistan, War in Afghanistan, ISAF, NATO, al-Qaeda, IMU, HI-Gulbuddin, Haqqani network, Haqqani, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mohammed Omar, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bamian, Herat, Rabbani, Hazara, Pashtu, Tajik, Sadat, Sangcharak, Qazni, Bagram, afg, Aftab Research Center, Payam-Aftab, Aftab, Research, Center en-us javadvahidian@gmail.com info@payam-aftab.com payam-aftab.com JALALABAD, Nov 30, 2011 - A night raid in Hakimabad in the heart of eastern Nangarhar province shows the face of U.S.-led presence in Afghanistan, and what it means to local people. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/5350/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/5350 Afghans are living longer, fewer infants are dying and more women are surviving childbirth because health care has dramatically improved around the country in the past decade, according to a national survey released Wednesday. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/5349/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/5349 Drawdown plans announced by the U.S. and more than a dozen other nations will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by 40,000 troops at the close of next year, leaving Afghan forces increasingly on the frontlines of the decade-long war. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/5340/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/5340 U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/5317/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/5317 KABUL - Afghan police have dismantled the protest camp of a hunger-striking politician and taken her to hospital, raising concerns the government may be taking a harder line on political dissent after a year of chaos and stagnation in parliament. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/5275/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/5275 Interview: Abdullah Abdullah http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/3855/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/3855 Interview: Hamid Karzai http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/3061/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/3061 Obama Seeking New Approach In Afghanistan http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/2770/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/2770 KABUL, Afghanistan — The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she started selling sex http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/2389/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/2389 By Mandy Clark Kabul 10 June 2008 http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/2365/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/2365 There are few jobs in Afghanistan as daunting and as dangerous as governor of Helmand province, but this weekend step forward Gulab Mangal, the new hope for Helmand. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/2307/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/2307 Germany under U.S. pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/1544/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/1544 The two senior western diplomats expelled from Afghanistan after being accused of talking directly to the Taliban left Kabul early yesterday amid hopes that they could soon be readmitted. Michael Semple, the Irish acting head of the EU's mission, and Mervyn Patterson, a Briton working for the UN, flew to neighbouring Pakistan hours before the politics of the region were thrown into turmoil by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/news/990/ http://www.payam-aftab.com/en/990