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      <title>Afghan children killed in 'NATO airstrike'</title>
      <description>President Hamid Karzai denounces reported death of 11 children by NATO forces in Kunar province and orders inquiry.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:42:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kabul Bank: A bank that defaulted on trust   </title>
      <description>Sentencing of two ex-top executives brings spotlight back on nation's first private bank that was felled by greed.</description>
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      <title>Irregular Afghan forces in focus for abuses</title>
      <description>Atrocity claims against US forces and locals working with them prompt Karzai to order Americans out of Wardak province.</description>
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      <title>Taliban talks in Doha drag on endlessly</title>
      <description>Taliban representatives have been in Qatari capital for almost a year, but negotiations seem to be going nowhere.</description>
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      <title>Afghanistan's first female district governor</title>
      <description>Saira Shakeeb Sadat says her district in Jowzjan province receives little aid due to its relative safety.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:50:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Sarmast's Music School</title>
      <description>Afghanistan's Institute of Music helps revitalise a ruined culture and gives children a chance to transform their lives.</description>
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      <title>Kabul - A City of Hope and Fear</title>
      <description>With the US set to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, what does the future hold for the country's capital?</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghan youth 10 years after ISAF</title>
      <description>Ten years after the US launched operations in Afghanistan, many Afghan youth remain cautiously optimistic the future.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:57:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghan women: priority or bargaining chip?</title>
      <description>Some argue women's rights are at risk as the US and Afghan governments negotiate with the Taliban.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:27:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The changing face of Afghan education</title>
      <description>Considerably improved access to education is one of the most dramatic social changes in the last decade in Afghanistan.</description>
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      <title>Education 'revolution' comes to rural Herat</title>
      <description>Despite financial and cultural constraints, Pashtun Zarghun has made incredible strides towards the education of girls.</description>
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      <title>Afghans see slow healthcare improvements</title>
      <description>Standards of healthcare in Afghanistan have improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban, but there are still variations in quality of care between rural and urban areas.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:33:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>No one asked their names</title>
      <description>Following the US soldier's shooting spree in Kandahar, the conversation moved to the "backlash" and focused on the accused soldier. The victims became a footnote: just the number 16.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:53:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'National Uprising' waged for Afghan rights</title>
      <description>A fledgling Afghan resistance movement is battling the Taliban in an effort to get schools, medical clinics and markets reopened.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:08:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghan drug addicts struggle for help</title>
      <description>Addiction involves whole families and usually parents get their children introduced to drugs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghans await road built at snail's pace</title>
      <description>Instead of aid, villagers in remote northern province seek speedy completion of a road to end their isolation.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:56:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The price of dying for Afghanistan</title>
      <description>Families forced to search for fallen kin as Afghan army fails to fulfil its promise to return dead soldiers' bodies.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Displaced Afghans feel strangers at home </title>
      <description>Those living in camps for displaced people complain of grinding poverty, crime, and unscrupulous leaders.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:51:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Karzai calls for prison torture investigation</title>
      <description>After initially denying charges, Kabul government forms delegation to investigate claims of Afghan prison torture.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:43:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>9/11 in Little Kabul</title>
      <description>Members of the largest Afghan-American community discuss how the personal became political in the decade since 9/11.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:12:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Europe no sanctuary for Afghan asylum seekers</title>
      <description>Afghans hoping to escape violence and a lack of economic prospects at home face new challenges and new abuses in Europe.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:43:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The many faces of Afghanistan's spy chief   </title>
      <description>As he recovers from an attempt on his life, Asadullah Khalid's controversial past clouds his rising political influence.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:31:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Children caught up in Afghan conflict </title>
      <description>More children are being killed or maimed as bloody conflict takes a heavy toll on the civilian population.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:55:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghan hospital in coma for poor workmanship</title>
      <description>Built by China, Jumhoriat hospital has been closed over safety concerns since a day after Karzai inaugurated it in 2009.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:02:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghanistan's online war of words </title>
      <description>ISAF sets Twittersphere abuzz as it engages man allegedly affiliated with the Taliban on the micro-blogging site.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:03:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Former Taliban' in the Afghan peace puzzle</title>
      <description>Frequently propped up as potential mediators, can former members of the Taliban government influence the peace process?</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:23:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Complicating sectarianism in Afghanistan</title>
      <description>Analysts question comments about impending sectarian violence in Afghanistan following Ashoura Day attacks.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:52:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Quran burning' triggers Afghan protests</title>
      <description>Top NATO commander apologises and orders investigation into reported incident as protesters besiege Bagram airbase.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rights group criticises Afghan 'moral crimes'</title>
      <description>Report calls for release of 400 women and girls prosecuted and jailed for 'running away' in Afghanistan.</description>
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      <title>Hekmatyar's never-ending Afghan war </title>
      <description>How one former anti-Soviet ally of the US, who refused to meet Reagan, continues his war three decades later. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:18:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Attacks by Afghan army on foreign troops rise</title>
      <description>Low pay, mistrust and general dissatisfaction with the Kabul government are cited as possible reasons for killings.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Executed Afghan president stages 'comeback'</title>
      <description>Sixteen years after he was killed, Mohammad Najibullah is riding a wave of popularity among violence-weary Afghans.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:38:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A tale of two Kabul schools</title>
      <description>Lack of funds threatens some schools, while other institutions are opening franchises across the nation.</description>
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      <title>The 9/11 decade: Afghanistan's new beginning?</title>
      <description>On the eve of 9/11, the Taliban were poised to conquer the remaining fronts of resistance, but things changed quickly.</description>
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      <title>Ten years on, young Afghans still lack basics</title>
      <description>Afghanistan is still struggling to empower a disenfranchised youth.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 07:44:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Villagers and regional leaders accuse semi-official Arbakai of extortion and violence as country forms new local force.
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      <title>Suicide attacks v2.0 bleeds Afghan police</title>
      <description>Taliban's 'enhanced suicide attacks' in response to Karzai's peace overtures have left security forces vulnerable.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:32:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Photographs from the centre of a tragedy</title>
      <description>For photographer Massoud Hossaini, the personal and professional came to a head while shooting blast at Shia shrine.</description>
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