Situation dangerous in Pakistan, says US special envoy

The US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, warned on April 19 that no other place in the world today faced a more dangerous situation than Pakistan,. In an interview to CNN, Holbrooke said Pakistan also faced a "very difficult economic situation"...

What’s the fact on Shiite Law in Afghanistan?

about 1,000 Afghans swarmed a demonstration of 300 women protesting against a new conservative marriage law on Wednesday. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with...

Afghan teenager's acid attack

By: http://www.afghancitizen.blogspot.com/ A teenage girl whose face was sprayed with acid on her way to school in the southern province of Kandahar Afghanistan, has been speaking about what happened. Your Story citizen journalist and blogger Baktash Siawash managed to...

Merkel in Afghanistan

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Afghanistan on Monday to visit German troops there, a government spokesman said.Germany has about 3,800 troops in Afghanistan and has a parliamentary mandate to send a total of 4,500 as part of the NATO mission.Merkel, who faces an...

Suicide bombers are Pakistanis, says Interior Affairs Advisor

By:http://www.afghancitizen.blogspot.com/ Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior, Rehman Malik, has said that those involved in the suicide bombings are Pakistanis and that they are playing with the lives of innocent people for the sake of a few pennies, according to The...

A Historical Timeline of Afghanistan

By: http://afghancitizen.blogspot.com/ The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. At the gateway between Asia and Europe, this land was conquered by Darius I of Babylonia circa 500...