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51. Roadside Bomb in Afghanistan Kills Legislator and 4 Others

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Legislators -- Death of -- Crimes against -- Military aspects -- Casualties, Bombings -- Afghanistan -- Casualties -- Military aspects, Afghanistan -- Military aspects
Abstract

A powerful roadside bomb killed an Afghan legislator, a local commander and three bodyguards on Thursday on the road between Kandahar and Helmand Provinces in southeast Afghanistan, Helmand officials said. […]

Published
2009

52. State funeral for Afghan leader slain in '78 coup

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company business management, Funerals -- Management -- Casualties -- 1978 AD, Coups d'etat -- History -- Casualties -- 1978 AD
Abstract

More than 30 years after they were assassinated in a Communist coup and buried in a secret grave, ushering in decades of bloodshed and turmoil, Afghanistan's first president, Mohammad Daoud […]

Published
2009

53. Elder Karzai defends ties to business

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Executive power -- Influence -- Political aspects, Management -- Political aspects
Abstract

The older brother of President Hamid Karzai on Thursday denounced a March 5 article in The New York Times, calling its assertion that he had used his connections for business […]

Published
2009

54. Court Upholds Afghan Journalist's 20-Year Jail Term for Blasphemy

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Journalists -- Cases, Blasphemy -- Cases, Afghanistan -- Social policy -- Cultural policy
Abstract

The Supreme Court in Afghanistan has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy. The case has alarmed news media and rights organizations in […]

Published
2009

55. Taliban fighters in Central Kabul kill at least 20

Author

Oppel, Jr., Richard A., Wafa, Abdul Waheed, and Rahimi, Sangar

Subjects
Taliban, Suicide bombings -- Casualties
Abstract

This article was reported by Richard A. Oppel Jr., Abdul Waheed Wafa and Sangar Rahimi and written by Mr. Oppel. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen struck government […]

Published
2009

56. Senior Afghan General Dies in Helicopter Crash

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Aircraft accidents -- Casualties
Abstract

One of Afghanistan's senior military commanders was killed along with 12 other passengers when a military helicopter crashed in the western province of Herat, Gen. Zaher Azimi, a spokesman for […]

Published
2009

57. Afghanistan: 13 Die In Crash

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Aircraft accidents -- Investigations -- Casualties
Abstract

One of Afghanistan's senior military commanders was killed along with 12 other passengers when a military helicopter crashed Thursday in the western province of Herat, said Gen. Zaher Azimi, a […]

Published
2009

58. 10 Arrested in Acid Attack on Afghan Girls

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Taliban -- Officials and employees -- Crimes against -- Cases, Acids -- Usage -- Cases, High school students -- Crimes against -- Cases, Assault and battery -- Cases
Abstract

The police in Kandahar Province arrested 10 Taliban militants they said were involved in an attack this month on a group of Afghan schoolgirls whose faces were doused with acid, […]

Published
2008

59. Coalition Troops Kill 10 Militants in Afghanistan

Author

Ellick, Adam B. and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Death of -- Casualties, Insurgency -- Afghanistan -- Casualties
Abstract

U.S. and Afghan officials said that coalition troops had killed 10 militants in eastern Afghanistan in an attack on Friday evening. Coalition troops were targeting leaders of the Pakistan-based Jalaluddin […]

Published
2008

60. 18 Afghans and one G.I. are killed in an attack

Author

Ellick, Adam B. and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company business management, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Reports, Military maneuvers -- Management -- Reports -- Casualties, Civilian casualties -- Reports -- Casualties
Abstract

A day after a fierce suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan, insurgents struck an American military convoy in a crowded market in the eastern part of the country Thursday, and officials […]

Published
2008

62. Amid New Accounts of Civilian Deaths, U.S. Says Taliban Put Afghans in Line of Fire

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Rahimi, Sangar

Subjects
Company legal issue, Market trend/market analysis, Taliban -- Political activity -- Investigations, Bombing, Aerial -- Investigations -- Forecasts and trends -- Military aspects, Civilian casualties -- Forecasts and trends -- Military aspects -- Investigations, Afghanistan -- Military aspects
Abstract

As Afghan officials reported more civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes on Thursday, witnesses to a strike that apparently hit a wedding party on Monday said the civilian death toll could […]

Published
2008

63. Afghan Officials Say U.S. Strike Killed 40 at Wedding Party

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Mcdonald, Mark

Subjects
Bombing, Aerial -- Casualties -- Social aspects -- Military aspects -- Statistics, Civilian casualties -- Statistics -- Military aspects -- Casualties -- Social aspects, Afghanistan -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, United States -- Military aspects
Abstract

Tensions between American forces and the Afghan government over civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes spiked again on Wednesday with a report by Afghan officials that a missile from a United […]

Published
2008

64. Kabul ministry hit in brazen attack

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Suicide bombings, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2008

65. Two killed by bomber at ministry in Kabul

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Taliban -- Cases -- Reports, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Influence -- Cases -- Reports, Civilian casualties -- Reports -- Cases -- Casualties
Abstract

A suspected Taliban suicide bomber shot his way into the Ministry of Information and Culture in central Kabul on Thursday, then blew himself up, leaving at least two others dead […]

Published
2008

66. Afghan Bomb At Meeting Kills 2 G.I.'s And a Child

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Taliban -- Influence -- Investigations, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Investigations -- Military aspects, Military assistance, American -- Prevention -- Casualties -- Military aspects -- Investigations, Baghlan, Afghanistan (Province) -- Military aspects
Abstract

A suicide attacker in a police uniform blew himself up inside a police station in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Monday, killing two American soldiers and an 8-year-old […]

Published
2008

67. 'Mistaken Identity' Cited in 9 Afghan Deaths

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Bombing, Aerial -- Casualties, Mistaken identity -- Influence -- Casualties
Abstract

An overnight airstrike by coalition forces that Afghan authorities said killed nine Afghan Army soldiers may have been a case of mutually mistaken identity, the United States-led military coalition said […]

Published
2008

69. No Death Sentence for Afghan Journalist

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business management, Judicial process -- Evaluation -- Cases, Journalists -- Civil rights -- Cases, Pretrial detention -- Management -- Cases, Blasphemy -- Cases, Afghanistan -- Social policy
Abstract

An appeals court sentenced a young Afghan journalist to 20 years in prison for blasphemy on Tuesday, overturning a death sentence ordered by a provincial court but raising further concerns […]

Published
2008

70. Brother Of Karzai Denies Links To Heroin

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Drug dealing -- Investigations -- Casualties, Political violence -- Investigations -- Casualties, Heroin -- Casualties -- Investigations, Drug traffic -- Investigations -- Casualties, Presidents -- Family -- Casualties -- Investigations
Abstract

The brother of Afghanistan's president denied any involvement in the heroin trade at a news conference on Monday, saying accusations linking him to heroin shipments were 'baseless' and represented political […]

Published
2008

71. Afghans Repatriate Son, 12, of Pakistani Indicted in U.S

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Boys -- Social aspects -- Cases, Assault and battery -- Cases -- Social aspects, Repatriation -- Social aspects -- Cases
Abstract

The 12-year-old son of a Pakistani neuroscientist indicted in New York on charges of attacking American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan was handed over to Pakistani diplomats on Monday […]

Published
2008

72. Afghan President Welcomes Chance to Work With New Pakistani Leader

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company public relations, Visits of state, Presidents -- Public relations -- Elections
Abstract

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said Thursday that he had found a better working environment in Pakistan with the election of the new president, Asif Ali Zardari, welcoming what he […]

Published
2008

73. Bomb Attack on Allied Convoy Kills 3 in the Afghan Capital

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Vehicle borne improvised explosive devices -- Investigations -- Casualties, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Investigations
Abstract

A suicide car bomb hit a convoy of the NATO-led forces on the eastern outskirts of the capital on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding about a dozen others, Afghan […]

Published
2008

74. Bomber strikes Afghan capital; at least 41 die

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Cowell, Alan

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business management, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Influence -- Reports -- Investigations, Military maneuvers -- Management -- Reports -- Casualties -- Investigations, Terrorism -- Investigations -- Casualties -- Reports, Military intelligence -- Reports -- Casualties -- Investigations
Abstract

A huge blast from a suicide car bomb at the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul killed 41 people and wounded more than 130 on Monday in the latest […]

Published
2008

75. Afghans say new U.S. strike killed civilians

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Bombing, Aerial -- Casualties -- Investigations -- Statistics, Civilian casualties -- Statistics -- Casualties -- Investigations
Abstract

Local officials in eastern Afghanistan said Sunday that an American airstrike killed at least 27 civilians in a wedding party, most of them women and children and including the bride. […]

Published
2008

77. Pakistan's spy agency accused in failed attack on Karzai

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Bowley, Graham

Subjects
Pakistan. Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence -- Investigations, Assassination -- Investigations, Presidents -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ABDUL WAHEED WAFA AND GRAHAM BOWLEY; New York Times News Service KABUL; NEW YORK -- The Afghanistan government for the first time publicly accused the Pakistani intelligence service yesterday [...]

Published
2008

78. Afghanistan says Pakistani intelligence organized plot to kill Karzai

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Bowley, Graham

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company public relations, Assassination -- Investigations -- Reports -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Public relations -- Reports -- Political aspects -- Investigations
Abstract

The Afghan government for the first time publicly accused the Pakistani intelligence service on Wednesday of organizing the failed plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai at a parade in Kabul […]

Published
2008

79. From Afghanistan, NATO shells militants in Pakistan

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Filkins, Dexter

Subjects
Company business management, North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Military policy -- Management, Military maneuvers -- Management -- Casualties -- Military aspects
Abstract

NATO forces in Afghanistan shelled guerrillas in Pakistan in two separate episodes on Sunday, as escalating insurgent violence appeared to be eroding the alliance's restraint along the border. NATO officials […]

Published
2008

82. Taliban Take Afghan Villages In South in Prelude to Battle

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company business planning, North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Planning -- Political activity, Taliban -- Political activity -- Planning, Evacuation of civilians -- Afghanistan, Military maneuvers -- Planning
Abstract

Afghan families continued to flee the Argandab District in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as Taliban fighters and NATO and Afghan forces prepared to battle over the strategic region. The Taliban […]

Published
2008

83. Afghans see link to Qaeda in plot to shoot Karzai

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business planning, Al-Qaeda -- Aims and objectives, Political violence -- Cases, Assassination -- Planning -- Cases, Criminal attempt -- Cases
Abstract

The attempt to kill President Hamid Karzai on Sunday was the work of militants who had infiltrated Afghanistan's security forces and had ties to groups linked to Al Qaeda in […]

Published
2008

84. Karzai warned of recent attack, official says

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Afghanistan. National Security Directorate -- Officials and employees -- Reports -- Investigations, Assassination -- Investigations -- Reports -- Political aspects, Electronic security systems -- Political aspects -- Evaluation, Security systems -- Political aspects -- Evaluation, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ABDUL WAHEED WAFA AND CARLOTTA GALL; New York Times News Service KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- President Hamid Karzai was warned that an attack was being planned on a military parade [...]

Published
2008

85. Afghan President Was Warned of Attack, Intelligence Chief Tells Angry Parliament

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company business planning, Assassination -- Planning -- Cases -- Casualties -- Social aspects, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Cases -- Social aspects, Criminal attempt -- Cases -- Social aspects -- Casualties, Presidents -- Social aspects -- Cases -- Casualties -- Planning
Abstract

President Hamid Karzai was warned that an attack was being planned on a military parade on Sunday, when he escaped an assassination attempt, Afghanistan's intelligence chief told Parliament on Tuesday. […]

Published
2008

86. Afghan Officials Abashed at Attempt to Kill Karzai

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Political violence -- Investigations -- Safety and security measures -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Assassination -- Investigations -- Political aspects -- Safety and security measures -- Social aspects, Afghanistan -- Political aspects -- Social aspects
Abstract

A well-coordinated assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai by suspected Taliban insurgents at the Afghan national day military parade in central Kabul has turned into a moment of national embarrassment […]

Published
2008

87. Afghan ministry bans the broadcast of 5 foreign soap operas

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Government regulation, Television programs -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Evaluation, Television broadcasting -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects -- Evaluation, Soap operas -- Evaluation -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

After four years of watching television programs test the boundaries of decorum and build devoted audiences in the process, conservatives are striking back. In the latest battle of the long-simmering […]

Published
2008

88. Taliban attack

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Insurgency -- Afghanistan -- Casualties, Construction workers -- Crimes against -- Casualties -- Political activity, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Taliban -- Political activity -- Crimes against
Abstract

Byline: ABDUL WAHEED WAFA AND CARLOTTA GALL; New York Times News Service KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- Taliban insurgents ambushed a group of road construction workers and their guards early yesterday, killing [...]

Published
2008

89. Attack on road crew kills 18 and injures 7 in Afghanistan

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Assault and battery -- Cases -- Casualties, Road construction workers -- Casualties -- Cases, Insurgency -- Afghanistan -- Cases -- Casualties
Abstract

Taliban insurgents ambushed a group of road construction workers and their security guards early on Tuesday, killing 18 of the guards and wounding seven, Afghanistan officials said. It was one […]

Published
2008

90. Former Warlord in Standoff With Police at Kabul Home

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Political crimes and offenses -- Investigations, Generals -- Investigations
Abstract

Dozens of armed police officers laid siege on Sunday to the house of a powerful ethnic Uzbek leader, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, in the diplomatic district of the capital, Kabul's […]

Published
2008

91. Afghanistan: road workers beheaded

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Taliban -- Cases, Kidnapping -- Cases, Revenge -- Cases
Abstract

Four Afghan road construction workers were discovered beheaded in Kamdesh, in northeastern Nuristan Province, the provincial governor said. The Interior Ministry confirmed the beheadings and said the men were kidnapped […]

Published
2008

92. Afghans say G.I.'s hunting Taliban insurgents killed police officers by mistake

Author

Gall, Carlotta and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Taliban -- Crimes against, War -- Casualties, Military maneuvers -- Casualties -- Reports
Abstract

At least nine Afghan police officers and a civilian were killed early Thursday in a firefight between American forces and the officers in Ghazni Province, just south of the capital, […]

Published
2008

94. Afghan judge says journalist must die for blasphemy

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Gall, Carlotta

Subjects
Company legal issue, Government regulation, Journalists -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Blasphemy -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Capital punishment -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases
Abstract

An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, […]

Published
2008

96. New Details on Kabul Attack Suggest 3 American Deaths

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Company legal issue, Taliban -- Investigations, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001- -- Casualties, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Investigations
Abstract

Police authorities in Afghanistan have arrested four people in the aftermath of the suicide bomb attack on Monday evening at a Kabul luxury hotel and said Tuesday that three Americans […]

Published
2008

97. Afghanistan quietly bans 'The Kite Runner' film

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Censorship issue, The Kite Runner (Motion picture) -- Evaluation, Censorship -- Evaluation, Cultural policy -- Evaluation
Abstract

The Culture Ministry has quietly banned the importing of 'The Kite Runner,' a film based on the best-selling novel about childhood betrayal, ethnic tension and sexual predation in Afghanistan. Latif […]

Published
2008

98. Suicide Bomb Kills 6 at Luxury Hotel in Afghan Capital

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
Taliban -- Political aspects, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001- -- International aspects -- Political aspects -- Casualties, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Political aspects
Abstract

A suicide bomb attack on Monday evening at a Kabul luxury hotel frequented by foreigners killed at least six people, including an American and a Norwegian journalist, and appears to […]

Published
2008

99. Error by Allies And 2 Clashes Kill 15 in South Of Afghanistan

Author

Wafa, Abdul Waheed and Shah, Taimoor

Subjects
Taliban -- Military aspects, Soldiers -- Casualties -- Military aspects, Suicide bombings -- Casualties -- Military aspects, Afghanistan -- Casualties -- Military aspects
Abstract

Two NATO soldiers, two Afghan soldiers and 11 Afghan police officers were killed in separate clashes in the volatile southern region of Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. A statement from NATO […]

Published
2008

100. Taliban Forced to Abandon Last Major Afghan Town

Author

Shah, Taimoor and Wafa, Abdul Waheed

Subjects
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Powers and duties, Taliban -- Buildings and facilities, Afghans -- Military aspects -- Powers and duties, Acquisitions and mergers -- Military aspects
Abstract

-- Afghan and NATO troops retook the town of Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan on Monday, forcing the Taliban to withdraw from the only sizable town they hold in the […]

Published
2007

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