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News2010 Elections: What if the Hazaras win in Uruzgan?
Martine van Bijlert, 02-10-2010: Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, as is by now well-known, is seriously pulled out of balance by fraud, insecurity and an unusual variation of the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV), an electoral system that...
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NewsNobel experts predict low-key prize after Obama
By KARL RITTER and BJOERN H. AMLAND Associated Press Writers STOCKHOLM—As the secretive Nobel Prize committees huddle for their final deliberations to select the 2010 winners, the question looms large: Are the jurors preparing another...
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NewsGhazni: At least 5 Hazaras killed by a Pashtun suicide bomber
Afghans gather at the a site of a suicide bombing in Ghazni, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. The bomber rammed a motorized rickshaw loaded with explosives into one of two vehicles in...
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NewsU.S. Probes Karzai’s Kin
Prosecutors Focus on Mahmood Karzai, Posing Diplomatic Risks for WashingtonMahmood Karzai, whom U.S. prosecutors in New York are investigating, helped develop the Aynomina housing community on the edge of the city of Kandahar./ Joel van...
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NewsCoercive Mass Displacement in Uruzgan
In addition to the numerous afflictions the Afghans have tolerated so far, evidences say that there are more things yet to appear in sight under president Karzai. Irrespective of how much realistic the government reports...
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NewsAFGHAN GOVERNMENT AND AFGHAN ELECTION COMMISSION USURPED HAZARAS’ SUFFRAGE
Photo: Muzafar AliLiaquat Ali Hazara, September 26, 2010: The Parliamentary Election of 18th September, 2010 in Afghanistan was thought to be a harbinger of positive socio-political change in Afghanistan’s multi-ethnic scenario as various concerned quarters,...
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NewsHazara Mass Displacement From Uruzgan
Photo: H. HussainiAn untold catastrophe in Afghanistan is underway. There has been mass displacement and forced-migration of Hazaras from Uruzgan Province recently. Though the Hazaras, who are in minority in Uruzgan Province, have faced brutal...
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NewsAfghanistan’s elections: progress and stagnation
Photo from BBC PersianNushin Arbabzadah, 25 September 2010: Last week’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan revealed a society in transition, displaying signs of genuine democratic progress as well its opposite: persistent sociopolitical stagnation. But progress and...
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NewsThis is a Hazara area and they do not want there to be a lot of Hazara MPs
Angry Afghans struggle to vote A Pashtun man looks up his desired candidate on the ballot as he queues to vote in Kabul. Saurabh Das / AP Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent KABUL // Angry scenes...
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NewsThousands of Hazaras in Afghanistan remained deprived to vote due to discriminatory attitude of Afghan Government and authorities of Election Commission
In Malistan and Jaghori Districts, people have demonstrated. The protesters have gathered at the town centers of the districts who are chanting slogans against Karzai and his corrupt government. They are claiming that, in spite...
By Omid Jafari