How US promoted corruption while locking out true democracy.The outpouring of Western anger and shock earlier this month over a new Afghan law that legalizes marital rape and confines women to their homes demonstrates how out of touch Western countries are with the monster they have created in that benighted country.
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Afghanistan sends student journalist to prison for 20 years
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Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.
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Canadian troops brace for spring election in Afghanistan
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KANDAHAR -- President Hamid Karzai declared Saturday that Afghanistan's presidential election should be held within the next two months, in keeping with the country's constitution.
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Afghanistan - The children who were killed and wounded in an explosion outside a tiny Afghan village this week were likely scavenging for bits of metal. Village elders in Salehan, about 15 kilometres outside of Kandahar city, say today that the children found what may have been unexploded munitions in a field after Canadian soldiers conducted a range practice.
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