Stories about Afghanistan from December, 2005
Afghanistan: NGO Skepticism
Afghan Reality reports on skepticism of and need for financial transparency in Afghanistan's NGO community.
Tajikistan: Yaldo
TojikYor of Sogdiana writes about Yaldo or Shabi Chila (Yalda in Farsi), the winter solstice holiday of Iranian peoples that celebrates the birth of light and its victory over darkness.
Afghanistan: AfghaniStar
Q. A. Shah of Kabulog writes that seeing AfghaniStar (think American Idol, Pop Idol, or Eurovision) makes him wonder that if Afghanistan is to have this type of pop culture, whether or not it could use a cynical hipster culture to go along with it.
Afghan Blogs: Justice & War Crimes, Fighting Drugs and Parliament
Afghanistan's government recently announced it plans to address war crimes and other abuses that took place during the decades of conflict in the country. Afghan Reality writes about the importance of such a plan and problems that can block it. It is clear that an ambitious plan dealing with such...
Afghanistan Blogs: Journals, Zaher Shah & Taliban
Garderah (Link in Persian), an Afghan blogger who recently visited Afghanistan, writes that many Afghans are surprised at the high number of private journals, radio stations, and television channels that operate alongside government ones. Garderah says he is disappointed to see that govermental journals talk more about Zaher Shah, former...
