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Updated: ( 4:38:15 GMT)
Tuesday February 09 , 2010
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Some of Afghan nomads sit together after a rainfall in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday
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Afghan policeman 'planted bombs'
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KABUL: A senior Afghan policeman has been arrested in connection with planting and storing roadside bombs, NATO officials said. The policeman was held by Afghan and coalition forces in northern Parwan province on Friday. A NATO statement said that the policeman was "linked to criminal activities, including a murder." Roadside bomb are frequently used to attack foreign and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, correspondents say. Taliban fighters make roadside bombs, known as IEDs (improvised explosive devices), from mines and explosives. They are activated by pressure plates, trip wires or mobile phones. As foreign troops have become better at detecting IEDs, the militants have become more sophisticated in modifying their designs, our correspondent adds.
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‘NATO to hold Taliban bastion forever’
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LASHKAR GAH: NATO forces and their Afghan allies will hold territory seized from militants in an imminent major operation “forever”, the commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province said.
British and US forces are poised to take the town of Marjah, the last major bastion of Taliban control in the province, in what will be one of the biggest operations of the eight-year-old war.
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Afghan floods, avalanches kill 20
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KANDAHAR: At least 20 people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said Monday. At least six people died and 10 others were missing following heavy rains in the southern province of Kandahar since late Sunday, a provincial spokesman, Zalmai Ayoubi, told AFP. "So far we have found six bodies from one car. Two cars with 10 other people in them are missing, he said.
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Gates shores up allies in Afghan war
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WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Robert Gates returns to Washington day after a weeklong Europe tour spent shoring up coalition support for Afghanistan and calling for sustained pressure on Iran to curtail its nuclear ambitions. During his last two stops in Rome and Paris, Gates offered praise for the contributions to the war from allies such as Italy and France. In the face of public opposition, members of 43-nation coalition other than the US.
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Villages empty before Afghan push
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KABUL: Hundreds of villagers living in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan are leaving before a major NATO-led offensive gets under way. It is expected to be one of the largest counter-insurgency operations since the Afghan conflict began in 2001. The operation to clear insurgents from the southern town of Marjah, in Helmand province, is expected to begin soon. Meanwhile two British solders have been killed by a bomb in Helmand.
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Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
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KABUL: Two soldiers with NATO-led forces fighting Taliban-led insurgents were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday. "Two ISAF service members died following an IED (improvised explosive device) strike in southern Afghanistan yesterday (Sunday)," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. The latest deaths took to 61 the number of the foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year.
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South Asian Policy Analysis Network
South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the South Asian Journal have initiated a project to develop an interactive network of experts for the South Asian Policy Analysis (SAPANA) Network which was launched in April, 2006. SAPANA is a non-partisan, South Asia-wide research and policy analysis network, the first independent South Asian think-thank in the region and is expected to play an influential role in guiding discussion, analysis and policy both in South Asia and outside the region.
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South Asia Media Commission was formed in April 2007 to monitor journalists’ safety and violation of media rights and to publish periodical reports. It was envisaged to respond with speed to such violations to press for remedial action.
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South Asian Media School
In 2007, SAFMA, a network of South Asian journalists and media practitioners, aware of the political nuances of the region and sensitive to the demands of the new media age, felt the need to cultivate a new generation of South Asian media persons. With this in mind, the South Asian Media School was set up at South Asian Media Centre, a hub of media activity.
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