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Revisiting an acid attack victim in Bangladesh

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Durjoy was just two months old when his aunt poured acid down his throat to try and kill him. He was two years old when Al Jazeera first met him in Bangladesh’s Acid Survivors’ Foundation. Four years later, our correspondent Nicolas Haque has caught up with him. Warning: viewers may find some of the images [...]

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Religious cleric arrested in Pakistan blasphemy case

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

A Muslim cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy has been arrested in Pakistan. He was part of a group which accused the 14 year old of burning pages of the Quran, a serious offence in Pakistan. Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports from Islamabad.

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Analyst says Afghan forces need to be reduced to 100000

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Nabi Misdaq, a Washington-based Afghanistan analyst tells Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry that the Afghan Local Police, a security focre separate from the national police force, was improperly modeled after traditional Pashtun practice of army recruitment. “If they don’t understand the Arbakai system and how it operates within the tribal areas, they will never get it [...]

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Afghan forces to be re-vetted

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Training operations for the Afghan Local Police, a security force separate from the Afghan National Police that operates in the more insecure and remote areas, has been suspended by the United States. The suspension, affecting about 1000 Afghans, comes in response to a recent rise in insider attacks in which coalition forces have been killed [...]

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Record keeper of the Himalayas

By dog | Published: September 3, 2012

Eighty-eight-year old Elizabeth Hawley is the unrivalled authority on people that have climbed the Himalayas. Her records have been compiled over 50 years. They are unofficial, but regarded as the most comprehensive data of expeditions to the world’s highest mountain. Al Jazeera’s Subina Shrestha reports from Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse discusses Australia troop deaths

By dog | Published: August 31, 2012

Skype Live on the Afghan green on blue killings.

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Causes of coalition deaths in Afghanistan

By dog | Published: August 31, 2012

So far in 2012, 317 members of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have been killed in the Central Asian nation. The majority of those, 246, were from roadside bombs. The so-called “green-on-blue” insider attacks accounted for 39 deaths over 34 incidents so far in 2012. Of those 34 incidents of insider attacks by [...]

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The impact of green-on-blue attacks on Afghan morale

By dog | Published: August 31, 2012

Al Jazeera speaks to Daoud Sultanzoy, political analyst and former member of the Afghan parliament, who says insider attacks will affect not just the morale of the foreign troops in the country but also afghan forces.

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Future of US role in Afghanistan remains unclear

By dog | Published: August 29, 2012

Thirty thousand American troops sent into Afghanistan to bolster the US effort there are due to be withdrawn by the end of the month. But the Obama administration has not specified what the US commitment will be moving forward. Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan reports on the future of a tenuous US-Afghan partnership.

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Pakistan’s Afghan refugees await decision on status

By dog | Published: August 27, 2012

Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Peshawar, addresses the December 2012 expiration of refugee status for Afghans in neighbouring Pakistan. Tyab says Islamabad has found itself in a “very sticky situation” since 2009, when the expiration date was first established. Our correspondent says the Pakistani government “have been dragging their heels” due to a combination [...]

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Afghan returnees find little waiting for them at home

By dog | Published: August 27, 2012

For many Afghans the fall of the Taliban meant a return home away from the hardships of life as a refugee. But the vast majority have returned to live in poverty in isolated parts of the Afghan capital with only basic services. Now with Pakistan threatening not to renew the refugee status of 1.7 million [...]

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Samsung bites back after Apple victory

By dog | Published: August 27, 2012

South Korean technology giant Samsung says consumers will now face fewer choices, less innovation and higher prices. That is after a US jury ordered the company to pay more than one billion dollars to Apple for stealing its technology. It is only one of the many international legal battles between the two, all of which [...]

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