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Waraqah 24
27-09-03, 03:36
Taliban Close In On Afghan Capital Of Kabul
Sep 26, 2003
By Zafir Jamaal, JUS

Taliban Mujahideen have closed in on the suburbs of Kabul, the Afghan capital, after taking the strategic town of Sarobi in an operation that even Afghan officials consider “amazing”. Taliban Mujahideen are now amassing for a classic offensive from the south and east to take Kabul.

As Taliban Mujahideen closed in on Kabul, Taliban leaders urged government forces to lay down their arms and surrender, saying that President Burhanuddin Rabbani was 'preparing to flee'. Commander of the Faithful Mullah Omar offered the government forces amnesty and told them to stay at their posts to keep order.

The Taliban have proven once again their ability to make quick and easy military as it did when it came to power in 1994. They have two thirds of the country wrapped up are pushing north to try to surround Kabul and take the government's air base at Bagram, 30 miles north of Kabul.
On Wednesday, Kabul police seized 47 rockets, each loaded with 91 small bombs that were aimed at Kabul, fused and ready to be fired.

This is the biggest threat to the Kazai regime yet. It now has very little territory under its control, beyond the immediate are of Kabul and some remote and militarily insignificant areas in the north.

It unclear how General Abdul Rashid Dostam, the warlord who has control of the oil rich north and who is known for switching sides, will play into the equation.

Aid Worker Killed

Meanwhile, Taliban Mujahideen have killed another Afghan working for a local humanitarian agency and seriously wounded his driver, District military commander Haji Ghulam Sarwar said in a phone conversation with Reuters on Thursday.

He said the worker with the Voluntary Association for Rehabilitation of Afghanistan was killed when four Mujahideen attacked his vehicle on the road to the city of Kandahar in Girishk district, about 345 miles west of Kabul.

Sarwar said two of the attackers had been arrested and were carrying documents and a satellite telephone. He also added that the attackers were traveling in a Toyota taxi and initially approached the aid workers' in an attempted to divert them. When they refused, they shot the engineer, the site manager of VARA's office in the province of Nimroz, in the neck, killing him instantly, and wounded the driver.

Taliban Fire Rockets At US Base

Meanwhile AFP reports that Taliban Mujahideen fired 10 rockets at two US military bases near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, Eight of the rockets landed near the base at Shkin in Paktika province and two landed near a base in northeast Kunar province late Tuesday but Afghan officials report no casualties.

"Shkin, we call it the most evil place in Afghanistan. We have lost more soldiers in Shkin than any other place in Afghanistan," Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters in Kabul.

Afghan troops say that Taliban Mujahideen are now armed with technology including night-vision gear and satellite telephones. (JUS)

barfly
27-09-03, 11:09
Ik ben ook blij dat de Taliban dan misschien weer aan de macht komen in Afghanistan, weg met die meisjes scholen! Weg met die slecht gekleede vrouwen! (Die zullen d'r weer flink van langs krijgen die smerige sloeries) Wat moet je in gods naam met vrijheid? Dan komt er tenslotte niets meer uit je handen. Nee Taliban gaan dat allemaal recht zetten :duim:

Shaheen
27-09-03, 14:44
hahah taliban komt terug om afgeslacht te worden :D

an3sdej
27-09-03, 16:50
Leve de Taliban, leve de achterlijkheid :lol:

Waraqah 24
27-09-03, 21:43
Waren de chadors ( betergezegd burqa's) onder Amerikaans bezetting afgeworpen door de Afghaanse moslima's... :duizelig:

sommigen van jullie zijn inderdaad : blind , doof en stom tegelijk :slaap:

barfly
27-09-03, 21:49
Geplaatst door Waraqah 24
Waren de chadors ( betergezegd burqa's) onder Amerikaans bezetting afgeworpen door de Afghaanse moslima's... :duizelig:

sommigen van jullie zijn inderdaad : blind , doof en stom tegelijk :slaap:

Inderdaad! Die hebben zij niet afgeworpen! Want het was VRIJE wil :)
Onder de Taliban zullen zij weer lijden, want niets is vrij en vrije wil is er niet ene kogel is hun lot en dat is ook jouw wens? :)

Waraqah 24
27-09-03, 23:10
Canadian Physician Describes Healthcare in Afghanistan

In response to the rumours being circulated around on the Internet that the Taliban Islamic Movement is oppressing women in Afghanistan:

I never respond to the recipients of forwarded messages like this but I feel professionally compelled to address this one. The message does not produce any evidence to support the allegations made in it. There are no information sources quoted and yet more than 350 people have e-signed this document.

I am a Canadian-trained family physician. I recently returned from a medical/fact finding mission to tour the hospitals and cities of Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan to get a first hand perspective of the social and health care problems there. I stayed with an Ottawa, Canada based NGO in Kabul who helped me tour the health care facilities and cities. I personally witnessed the situation in the hospitals and cities and conducted two clinics in Kabul.

Here is a summary of my observations.

1. There is an entire hospital dedicated to the complete care of women in Kabul. It is called the Womens Gyne and Maternity Hospital of Kabul.Another hospital, the Indira Gandhi Childrens hospital also takes care of women. It, like all hospitals in Afghanistan, suffers from severe medication and supply shortages. I saw doctors in emergency wards using their bare hands to stitch up wounds. Surgeons at the children's hospital see 2-3 cases a day of young children with bowel obstructions caused by severe intestinal worm infestations. This is completely preventable through improved hygiene. Health care is equally dismal for all Afghans - male AND female.

2. There is a high incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (I saw my first case of tetanus/"lock jaw" in Jalalabad).

3. Doctors (both male and female) are leaving Afghanistan in large numbers as the monthly salary of a doctor is only 6000 Afghan Rupees (about $15CDN). Nurses make only 3000 rupees (about CDN$7.50) monthly while janitors make only 2000 rupees.

4. Most Afghans cannot even afford to buy the prescriptions the doctors write for them and their children. Many go out into the street, holding their prescriptions and begging people to give them money to buy the medications for their children.

5. The 400-bed children's hospital has a diesel powered heating system which is operational, but they cannot afford to run it in winter as fuel costs 15000 Afghan rupees (about CDN$30 per hour) to run it. Temperatures can dip to -15 deg celsius or colder.

6. There are schools in Laghman province which teach women employable skills such as sewing, and weaving. Other schools run by western NGOs were closed by the Taliban because they refused to segregate males/females or operate under the rules of Islam. There are many girl schools operating in Afghanistan.

7. With regards to daily life, I saw countless women walking freely in the markets alone or with their children, unaccompanied by any male escort. Many were even wearing high heel shoes. None were being stoned or beaten.

8. I saw many women who were not wearing the burqa (head and body covering with a net opening over the face) but were wearing colourful head scarves that would also cover their mouths and upper body. They were not beaten or stoned.

9. I did not see any windows that were painted to prevent women from being seen. Afghan homes are not built the same as western homes. Almost all Afghani homes are surrounded by a tall external mud/straw wall which provides the ultimate privacy to homes and families. Afghans are very private people and do not like others looking in on them, especially women.


10. There is great poverty in Afghanistan and I saw many suffering men,women and children. Families are selling their household belongings (furniture, clothes, utensils, cooking pots) to help them buy food for their families. Once they can't sell anything more, they are forced to beg in the streets.

11. While there were many people forced to beg in Afghanistan, one must remember that begging is not a problem restricted to Afghanistan.

12. Kidnappings, rapes, prostitution, robberies, and murders committed by bandits and dacoits were rampant in Afghanistan in the years after the Russians retreated. When the Taliban took control, all 41 brothels in Kabul were closed and the bandits fled to neighboring countries for refuge (i.e.,Pakistan, Iran). Afghans now freely travel even at night.

13. The Taliban have instituted strict Islamic shariah in Afghanistan. They have closed cinemas, prohibited the photography in any form of live people, banned gambling, prostitution, etc. They "enforce" morality on their people.

14.The UN confirms severe drought conditions for Afghanistan for the next two years. Rivers that run turbines to generate electricity are almost dried out. As a result, electricity is only available for 5-6 hours during the day.

15.The Afghan infrastructure is almost completely destroyed from war. There are almost no jobs. Only now are some of the major roads linking the major cities being repaired.

The Afghan people gave 1.8 million lives to gain their freedom to their land and religion from the Russians. The suffering is indeed great. The Taliban may not be the most perfect government around but we must not ignore the needs of the Afghan people, particularly the many widows and children. Messages like the one below not only help to propogate false information but can also hurt the innocent people it is trying to help (e.g., through further UN sanctions and restrictions.)

I challenge everyone who has signed this list to go to Afghanistan themselves, just as I did. See for yourself whether the allegations in the message below are true or not. See the magnitude of the poverty and the suffering which is partly being caused by messages like the one below which is being conveniently p! ropogated through the internet. Try to open your mind to the "big picture" and only after seeing the hard facts and evidence,deecide whether you should support this petition.

Let's try to use our energies to help those who are suffering the most -i.e., the widows and orphans. I am working with Health and Education Projects International, based in Ottawa, Canada which is running a number of projects for women and children. In the next few weeks I will be helping to set up the following projects with them:

A) Physician/Nurse income supplementation fund - to help retain existing health care staff (believe it or not, the main objective is $10 per month per physician which can make a big difference).

B) Regular shipments of primary care medications and supplies and equipment to be sent every 6 months through an agreement to be negotiated with the Canadian military. To be sent to the Jalabad Public Hospital and the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul.

C) Regular shipments of donated shoes, sweaters, blankets and sleeping bags (as Kabul gets very cold in winter and heating is extremely expensive)

D) A fund to help hospitals purchase adequate cleaning supplies and hire cleaning staff.

E) A fund to purchase milk cows to help feed the needy.

I welcome anyone to contact me regarding questions or requests for documentation and/or video footage. And, oh yes, please copy and forward this message to as many people as possible.



Raza M. Khan, BSc, MD, CCFP.
Family Physician.

an3sdej
27-09-03, 23:26
Al in 1995 geschreven!!

WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN
A human rights catastrophe
11. Conclusions and recommendations
This report shows that women are the main victims of the continuing human rights crisis in Afghanistan. They are being killed and maimed in what appears to be deliberate artillery attacks on civilians. They are being targeted for assassination, abduction and rape. These abuses are being committed with total impunity by government forces and armed political groups who are prepared to terrorize the civilian population in order to secure and reinforce their power bases. Leaders of armed political groups have been able, when they wished, to release detained civilians and prevent arbitrary killings and other abuses. Yet most of the time they have chosen not to.
While frequently claiming that they wish to "restore" religious, ethnic and humane standards, those engaged in the fighting have persistently indulged in widespread human rights abuses and looting of property. Even non-violent groups such as women's organizations have been systematically targeted for attacks.

The human rights catastrophe in Afghanistan demands immediate action. The cycle of unpunished abuses undermines any hope for a lasting environment for the enjoyment of human rights. peace. Amnesty International appeals to all parties fighting in Afghanistan to end the abuses of civilians and build respect for human rights.

Amnesty International also calls on the international community to take action. For over a decade many of the world's governments have sent vast quantities of lethal weaponry into Afghanistan, and have provided training and military facilities to the government and the armed groups fighting it. The weapons are now being used to kill and injure unarmed civilians, most of whom are women and children. The international community should help find and implement effective solutions to end the horrendous levels of suffering in Afghanistan.

Amnesty International urges the transitional authorities in Kabul to:

publicly commit themselves to safeguarding women's human rights.

ensure that government forces and armed groups allied to them are prevented from committing human rights violations such as unlawful killings and torture.

take special steps to prevent rape during armed conflict, as well as sexual abuse of women and girls.

thoroughly and impartially investigate all reports of deliberate and arbitrary killings, rape and other torture, and bring those responsible to justice, and provide fair and adequate redress to relatives of victims, including financial compensation and appropriate medical care.

ensure that government forces do not collude in human rights abuses by armed political groups, and do not lend such groups support in ways that facilitate human rights abuses.

make it clear that the killing, abduction or torture of women in order to punish or bring pressure on their relatives will not be tolerated, and hold those responsible for such abuses to account.

abolish all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment, including the death penalty, stoning and flogging.

abolish all legislation that treats women and men unequally and condones human rights violations against women.

guarantee that women activists and non-governmental organizations working peacefully for the promotion and protection of women's human rights enjoy all rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

recognize that discrimination in law and practice against women and girl children is a key contributory factor to human rights abuses such as torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, and initiate a plan of action against such discrimination.
Amnesty International urges the leaders of all warring Afghan armed political groups to:

take immediate steps to safeguard women's human rights.

observe minimum humane standards, as set out in the Geneva Conventions, in particular to treat civilians humanely, and to prevent deliberate and arbitrary killings, torture (including rape), ill- treatment and hostage taking.

prevent those under their command their from committing arbitrary and deliberate killings, rape and other forms of torture, political detentions and sexual abuse.

maintain strict chain-of-command controls over their forces and hold accountable any members of their forces who commit or condone human rights abuses.
Amnesty International urges the international community to:

issue a clear warning to the warring factions in Afghanistan that the world's governments will not ignore abuses of human rights against women and other civilians.

ensure that no military equipment and training is supplied to any of the forces in Afghanistan without guarantees that it will not be used to commit or facilitate human rights abuses.

ensure that standards set out in international humanitarian and human rights law designed to protect women's rights are upheld in Afghanistan. At present, women who are working to promote development, equality and peace in Afghanistan risk imprisonment, torture and other human rights violations and abuses.

publicly state their commitment to ensuring that the intergovernmental bodies which monitor human rights violations against women, including the UN Commission on Human Rights and its Special Rapporteur on violence against women , the UN Commission of the Status of Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, have adequate resources to carry out their tasks effectively.

support education and training programs in Afghanistan designed to promote awareness of women's rights as human rights.
Amnesty International also urges:

the UN Secretary General to ensure that the recommendations made by international human rights bodies, including the Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan, are implemented.

members of other intergovernmental organizations, such as the Organization of Islamic Conference and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to condemn the human rights situation in Afghanistan and to become actively involved in trying to end the abuses.

all governments, particularly those in Pakistan and Iran, to respect fully the rights of Afghan refugees and offer them adequate protection, both at border-posts and in refugee camps. Governments should ensure that women's physical safety and integrity are protected by preventing torture, including rape, and all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation, such as extorting sexual favours for commodities.


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Women in Afghanistan: a human rights catastrophe, Amnesty International, London, 1995. AI Index: ASA 11/03/95

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an3sdej
27-09-03, 23:31
Waarom durfden Afghaanse vrouwen niet direkt die burqah's af te leggen, omdat ze doodsbang zijn voor die achterlijke mannen daar. Voor die religieuse politie die er altijd was, en voor de hordes van die achterlijke krijgsheren, die alles als het even kan bij de oude regels van de stammen wil houden!!

Waraqah 24
28-09-03, 00:06
Al in 1995 geschreven!!

In 1995 was de taliban nog niet aan de macht helaas, en werden er vele stammenoorlogen gevoerd tussen de de corrupte stamenleiders..Toen de Taliban kwam , kwam er weer stabiliteit. Toen de Kruisvaarders kwamen bewapende ze de corrupte stammenleiders en bendeleiders zoals Dostum weer om corruptie in het land te laten toenemen en het land weer in verderf te storten...

De taliban zijn echter ondanks dit alles met Allah's hulp dichtbij een overwinning.. Dat de Taliban stabiliteit heeft gebracht hier getuigen zelfs de ongelovige instanties van, en dat ze de opiumteelt drastisch aanpakten en deze ontzettend daalde daar getuigden ook de ongelovige instanties van de VN van..

Nu is echter de opiumteelt weer in volle gang...de Ongelovigen zijn gekomen en de corruptie en drugshandel wordt gestimuleerd.

Maar Allah steunt degene die op Hem vertrouwen..


Canadian Physician Describes Healthcare in Afghanistan

In response to the rumours being circulated around on the Internet that the Taliban Islamic Movement is oppressing women in Afghanistan:

I never respond to the recipients of forwarded messages like this but I feel professionally compelled to address this one. The message does not produce any evidence to support the allegations made in it. There are no information sources quoted and yet more than 350 people have e-signed this document.

I am a Canadian-trained family physician. I recently returned from a medical/fact finding mission to tour the hospitals and cities of Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan to get a first hand perspective of the social and health care problems there. I stayed with an Ottawa, Canada based NGO in Kabul who helped me tour the health care facilities and cities. I personally witnessed the situation in the hospitals and cities and conducted two clinics in Kabul.

Here is a summary of my observations.

1. There is an entire hospital dedicated to the complete care of women in Kabul. It is called the Womens Gyne and Maternity Hospital of Kabul.Another hospital, the Indira Gandhi Childrens hospital also takes care of women. It, like all hospitals in Afghanistan, suffers from severe medication and supply shortages. I saw doctors in emergency wards using their bare hands to stitch up wounds. Surgeons at the children's hospital see 2-3 cases a day of young children with bowel obstructions caused by severe intestinal worm infestations. This is completely preventable through improved hygiene. Health care is equally dismal for all Afghans - male AND female.

2. There is a high incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (I saw my first case of tetanus/"lock jaw" in Jalalabad).

3. Doctors (both male and female) are leaving Afghanistan in large numbers as the monthly salary of a doctor is only 6000 Afghan Rupees (about $15CDN). Nurses make only 3000 rupees (about CDN$7.50) monthly while janitors make only 2000 rupees.

4. Most Afghans cannot even afford to buy the prescriptions the doctors write for them and their children. Many go out into the street, holding their prescriptions and begging people to give them money to buy the medications for their children.

5. The 400-bed children's hospital has a diesel powered heating system which is operational, but they cannot afford to run it in winter as fuel costs 15000 Afghan rupees (about CDN$30 per hour) to run it. Temperatures can dip to -15 deg celsius or colder.

6. There are schools in Laghman province which teach women employable skills such as sewing, and weaving. Other schools run by western NGOs were closed by the Taliban because they refused to segregate males/females or operate under the rules of Islam. There are many girl schools operating in Afghanistan.

7. With regards to daily life, I saw countless women walking freely in the markets alone or with their children, unaccompanied by any male escort. Many were even wearing high heel shoes. None were being stoned or beaten.

8. I saw many women who were not wearing the burqa (head and body covering with a net opening over the face) but were wearing colourful head scarves that would also cover their mouths and upper body. They were not beaten or stoned.

9. I did not see any windows that were painted to prevent women from being seen. Afghan homes are not built the same as western homes. Almost all Afghani homes are surrounded by a tall external mud/straw wall which provides the ultimate privacy to homes and families. Afghans are very private people and do not like others looking in on them, especially women.


10. There is great poverty in Afghanistan and I saw many suffering men,women and children. Families are selling their household belongings (furniture, clothes, utensils, cooking pots) to help them buy food for their families. Once they can't sell anything more, they are forced to beg in the streets.

11. While there were many people forced to beg in Afghanistan, one must remember that begging is not a problem restricted to Afghanistan.

12. Kidnappings, rapes, prostitution, robberies, and murders committed by bandits and dacoits were rampant in Afghanistan in the years after the Russians retreated. When the Taliban took control, all 41 brothels in Kabul were closed and the bandits fled to neighboring countries for refuge (i.e.,Pakistan, Iran). Afghans now freely travel even at night.

13. The Taliban have instituted strict Islamic shariah in Afghanistan. They have closed cinemas, prohibited the photography in any form of live people, banned gambling, prostitution, etc. They "enforce" morality on their people.

14.The UN confirms severe drought conditions for Afghanistan for the next two years. Rivers that run turbines to generate electricity are almost dried out. As a result, electricity is only available for 5-6 hours during the day.

15.The Afghan infrastructure is almost completely destroyed from war. There are almost no jobs. Only now are some of the major roads linking the major cities being repaired.

The Afghan people gave 1.8 million lives to gain their freedom to their land and religion from the Russians. The suffering is indeed great. The Taliban may not be the most perfect government around but we must not ignore the needs of the Afghan people, particularly the many widows and children. Messages like the one below not only help to propogate false information but can also hurt the innocent people it is trying to help (e.g., through further UN sanctions and restrictions.)

I challenge everyone who has signed this list to go to Afghanistan themselves, just as I did. See for yourself whether the allegations in the message below are true or not. See the magnitude of the poverty and the suffering which is partly being caused by messages like the one below which is being conveniently p! ropogated through the internet. Try to open your mind to the "big picture" and only after seeing the hard facts and evidence,deecide whether you should support this petition.

Let's try to use our energies to help those who are suffering the most -i.e., the widows and orphans. I am working with Health and Education Projects International, based in Ottawa, Canada which is running a number of projects for women and children. In the next few weeks I will be helping to set up the following projects with them:

A) Physician/Nurse income supplementation fund - to help retain existing health care staff (believe it or not, the main objective is $10 per month per physician which can make a big difference).

B) Regular shipments of primary care medications and supplies and equipment to be sent every 6 months through an agreement to be negotiated with the Canadian military. To be sent to the Jalabad Public Hospital and the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul.

C) Regular shipments of donated shoes, sweaters, blankets and sleeping bags (as Kabul gets very cold in winter and heating is extremely expensive)

D) A fund to help hospitals purchase adequate cleaning supplies and hire cleaning staff.

E) A fund to purchase milk cows to help feed the needy.

I welcome anyone to contact me regarding questions or requests for documentation and/or video footage. And, oh yes, please copy and forward this message to as many people as possible.



Raza M. Khan, BSc, MD, CCFP.
Family Physician.