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Tolo TV undermines state by using Iranian terms - Afghan attorney-general |
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Text of report by Afghan independent Aina TV on 18 April
[Presenter] Afghan Attorney-General Abdol Jabar Sabet has accused Tolo TV of undermining the current political system in Afghanistan and said that the officials of this station would be tried in the next few days. According to Mr Sabet, Tolo TV programmes are against the cultural values of Afghanistan.
[Correspondent] However, Mr Sabet said the reason behind the detention and beating of three Tolo TV staff was that they distorted two parts of his speech and one part of what presidential spokesman Karim Rahimi said.
He said that Tolo TV's live broadcast of the programme which reacted to the attorney general's action was part of conspiracy targeting the political system in Afghanistan. He said that Tolo TV officials should be brought to justice.
[Abdol Jabar Sabet] They condemn and humiliate overnight. We recorded it. The security officials recorded it. I will send a copy of what they said to the Ministry of Information and Culture today. If the crime is proven, I will bring them to justice.
[Correspondent] Rejecting the claims of Mr Sabet, Tolo TV's legal adviser said:
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Meet the new Pathan from HP |
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CHANDIGARH (India): At a first glance, they look like Himachalis. But then their turbans strike you. Stay a while, and they can entertain with a Pakistani dance form. Join them in prayer, and you prostrate in front of the Guru Granth Sahib. And when they talk, they speak chaste Pashto!
They are the Pathans of Himachal a tribe whose identity is alien even to the state natives. Settled in a small village, Parachinnar of Bharmaur district, they pride themselves in their unwonted identity. Attired the Pathani way, they revel in the traditional dance from Chitral (Pakistan) called Gharra.
As they exhibited this art in the city on Friday as part of the two-day Baisakhi festival, they say this is their tool that will maintain their perishing identity.
Having migrated to India after the Partition, they are known as Parachinnaris. They picked up the local dialect. While most external things changed, they held on to their real identity. Says Satpal Singh Jaswal, troupe leader, "We did not want to part with our customary dress, which we had brought from Pakistan. And this dance is our greatest strength."
Sadly, theirs is a faceless existence. Unifying a host of cultures from both India and Pakistan, they are struggling to keep their identity intact, including Pathani suits and Pashto. Not being given a tribe status, the Parachinnaris are now fighting afresh to merge with the mainstream. Despite having submitted several memorandums to various chief ministers, they are still where they had started off in 1947.
Adds Money Jaswal, another group member, "Of late, we have also been denied the wood granted to state residents on the premise that we are outsiders. We don't need monetary assistance, we just want an acknowledgement of our identity."
Source: IndiaTimes |
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Afghanistan 'border fence' clash |
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Afghan troops have torn down part of a new anti-Taleban fence being erected by Pakistan on the border between the two countries, officials in Kabul say.
They say the move led to fighting between Afghan and Pakistani troops.
But Pakistan has denied the fence claim, saying the clashes started after one of its patrols came under fire.
It was the first such fighting since Pakistan announced plans earlier this year to fence and mine sections of the border to restrict Taleban fighters.
The Afghan government says the plan will endanger civilian lives and separate Pashtun tribes and families.
'Returned fire'
The Afghan defence ministry said in a statement that the fighting took place between the Afghan border town of Shkin and Angoor Adda in Pakistan's tribal areas.
The Afghan government has been strongly opposed to Pakistani plans to build the fence, because it argues that such a move would make the disputed border between the two countries become a permanent boundary.
"Today at 9:30 am (0500 GMT) the Afghan army moved to the area and removed the fence," the defence ministry statement said.
"Pakistani troops fired on our forces, and the Afghan army returned fire."
It said that Afghan forces arrived in the area on Tuesday, after which Pakistani troops immediately stopped work on the barbed wire fence and pulled back. |
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Afghans killed 'in new US attack' |
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Nine Afghan civilians have been killed in a bombing raid in Kapisa province, Afghan officials say.
US forces have confirmed carrying out an air strike in the area but say they have no accurate casualty information.
The news comes shortly after US forces were accused of killing 10 civilians during a shoot out on Sunday in Nangarhar province.
Journalists say US troops confiscated their photos and video footage of the aftermath of the violence.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Kabul says the international mission to Afghanistan is to help the government and the people. But heavy fighting and suicide attacks have led to the death of thousands of innocent people over the past year.
President Karzai has been critical of the international forces in the past, saying they should do more to prevent civilian casualties.
Nato denial
News of the air strike in Kapisa came first from the province's deputy governor, Sayed Daud Hashimi.
He said the nine dead civilians included five women and three children and that the raid was carried out by Nato forces. Nato have denied any involvement.
But later a US military statement said US-led forces had "dropped two 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs" during an air strike in Kapisa after a Nato base had come under attack.
A US spokesman, Lt Col David Accetta, said the Nato base had come under rocket attack and that "two men with AK-47s" were seen leaving the scene of the rocket attack and entering a compound," the Associated Press news agency reports.
"These men knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area while conducting attacks against coalition forces."
Local people say that the coalition forces then bombed a mud-brick home, killing nine members of the same extended family.
The news came shortly after President Hamid Karzai had condemned an incident on Sunday in which US forces were accused of firing indiscriminately at civilians in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
'Co-ordinated attack'
The Americans say the Nangarhar fighting, near the city of Jalalabad, started when a convoy of marines was attacked by a suicide bomber and came under co-ordinated small-arms fire.
They say their soldiers returned fire, and acknowledge that at least eight Afghan civilians were killed, with a further 35 injured.
President Karzai has "strongly condemned the incident which took place due to a suicide attack on a coalition convoy and which prompted the coalition force firing on civilians that killed 10 people", a statement from his office said.
Reports say that as they left the scene along a busy highway, the Americans fired indiscriminately on civilians and their vehicles.
Thousands of local people took to the streets on Sunday to protest against what happened. The Afghan authorities have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the militant attack.
The Associated Press news agency says it will complain to the US military after journalists said US soldiers deleted footage of the aftermath of the Nangarhar violence.
Freelance journalists working for the Associated Press said troops erased photos and video showing a vehicle in which three people were shot dead during Sunday's incident in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Source: BBC |
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