Alla inlägg under mars 2014
...and while the heart skipped a beat, I understood that it was not about to live life as decent as possible or even to succeed while living it - but to continue to be. This moment came to everyone who was involved in such horrors as ours here. It might come as a loud scream from an excited imagination or a blast from lips dry from fear - but at some point it always came to everyone when a cold hand clutched at your heart, and you stood on a ledge, all alone, staring down a bottomless pit...
Swedish journalist Nils Horner, who yesterday were murdered on the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul, had a great interest to elucidate the Afghan situation and particular vulnerability. His last radio report, sent two days ago, was about just that. It's the same fanaticism that almost costed the Pakistani girl Malala her life. She fought for the right of girls to attend school, a blasphemy under the Taliban. Not to fuel Taliban aggression I could never teach rabies awareness in girls´ school here in Afghanistan.
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani speaks to supporters during an election rally in Kabul. (S. Sabawoon / European Pressphoto Agency / March 9, 2014)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban threatened to attack next month’s presidential election in Afghanistan, calling on its followers “to use all force” in targeting poll workers and political activists and to disrupt balloting.
“We once again call on all of our countrymen to keep away from electoral offices, voting booths, rallies and campaigns so that, may God forbid, their lives are not put into danger,” read a statement released Monday by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the Taliban likes to be called.
“If anyone still persists on participating, then they are solely responsible [for] any loss in the future.”
The rambling statement underscored the threat of unrest as Afghans prepare to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who is barred by law from seeking a third term. If successful, the April 5 election would mark the first peaceful, democratic transfer of political power in Afghanistan’s history.
Although the threat was not a surprise, it was the first time that the militant organization called directly for violence to upset the election. During the 2009 election, which was also marred by fraud and ballot-stuffing, militants attacked and killed poll workers and forcefully intimidated voters, sometimes slicing off their fingers.
This campaign has already seen attacks against partisans and election officials. In September, two Taliban gunmen killed the head of the Independent Election Commission in Kunduz province, in northern Afghanistan.
On Feb. 1, the day before campaigning officially began, two aides to presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah were shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the usually peaceful western city of Herat.
Abdullah, who finished second in the balloting to Karzai in 2009, is seen as one of the front-runners, along with former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani. Karzai has said he would not try to influence the outcome of the race, although he reportedly urged his brother, businessman Abdul Qayum Karzai, to end his long-shot presidential bid to avoid the appearance of nepotism.
Abdul Qayum Karzai dropped out of the race last week and threw his support to Zalmai Rassoul, a polished former foreign minister who is believed to be the current president’s favored candidate.
U.S officials are trying to avoid any appearance of meddling in the campaign after the State Department was accused in 2009 of backing Karzai’s opponents. All the presidential contenders have said they would sign a security agreement allowing some U.S troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014, something Karzai has declined to do.
set your heart free take flight and come fly with me,lets see the world through each others eyes,I will cradle your heart and nurture its beat as we take to the skies, leave your fear in the past along with your pain, we have no room for those things at all, let me understand your thoughts as only you do,I promise i will never let you fall,
sometimes all we can do, is trust what your heart is telling you
And for us to be together, to never be apart.
No one else in the world can even compare,
You're perfect and so is this love that we share.
We have so much in common than I ever thought we would,
I love you more than I ever thought I could.
I promise to give you all I have to give,
I'll do anything for you as long as I live.
In your eyes I see our present, our future and past,
By all our Heart interests I know we will last.
I hope that one day you'll come to realize,
How perfect you are when seen through my eyes.
Never flinch, never weary, never despair.
God is abel all the time.
The grim death toll in the fight against Taliban-led insurgents was revealed by the Office of Administrative Affairs (OAA), the secretarial department that collates information for President Hamid Karzai and the cabinet.
The OAA said that 13,729 families of security force personnel had been awarded financial support after suffering a fatality, while another 16,511 families were compensated after a relative was wounded.
"Every family that has received assistance represents a martyr," Sayed Jawad Jawed, director of public affairs at the OAA, told AFP on Monday.
"We can't say that this is the total number of casualties as we don't have those figures," he added.
"These figures represent the number of families of the martyrs assisted by the government, and the same with those wounded."
The death toll among Afghan security forces has rapidly increased in recent years as they take over responsibility for fighting insurgents from US-led NATO troops, but exact casualty rates have been hotly disputed.
US officials said that at the height of last year's "fighting season" more than 400 army and police were being killed in action every month.
The Afghan government does not normally release figures to avoid damaging public morale.
The OAA said that 12,336 families had also received compensation for losing a civilian relative in the war over the last 10 years, but the total number of civilian casualties is likely to be much higher.
According to a UN report released last month, the conflict has claimed the lives of 14,064 civilians in the last five years alone.
The UN attributes the vast majority of civilian deaths and injuries to "anti-government elements" led by the Taliban.
All 55,000 US-led combat troops still in Afghanistan will leave by December, but a small force may be deployed from 2015 on a training and counter-terrorism operation.
In the latest major attack on Afghan forces, 21 soldiers died in an assault in the eastern province of Kunar one week ago.
"Afghanistan supports the families of the martyrs and wounded, military and civilians, as a religious, national and official duty of the government," the OAA said in a statement.
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers walk at the Forward Base in Nari district near the army outpost in Kunar province, February 24, 2014.
Image by: OMAR SOBHANI / REUTERS
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