Human right commission of Pakistan
Afghan desk
Afghan up-date



June 30,2003
• KABUL: the united nations refugee agency (UNHCR)was Monday to begin moving some 19,000 afghan refugees form a precarious makeshift camp on the Pakistan border a spokeswomen said . (THE NEWS)
• KABUL: Afghan authorities sent mediators to northern Afghanistan to try to end bitter factional fighting between government aligned rival warlords the United Nations and a military commander said Sunday. (The News).
• KANDAHAR: scores of Afghan solders came under attack in a remote mountainous region of southern Afghanistan, sparking a gun battle in which one Taliban commander was killed and two guerillas were wounded in Zabul province gov. Hamidullah khan Tokhi said. (The News)
• Kabul: A huge explosion at the house of the Taliban,s supreme leader rocket the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday morning ,a report reaching here said . (The News)
• KABUL: Three children were killed and 10 adults injured by landslides that devastated their remote village in northern Afghanistan a United Nations spokesman said Sunday. (The News)
July 1,2003
• KABUL: British Foreign secretary Jack Straw said on Monday Afghanistan had changed dramatically since the Taliban were swept from power in late 2001 but the country still faced serious problems, above all insecurity. (The News)
• KABUL: Major General John Vine’s commander of US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, Monday visited the northern province of Kunar where American troops have been carrying out anti-Taliban operation, an official said. (The News)
• KABUL: three people were wounded in a bomb explosion in a cinema in southwestern Afghanistan city the official Bahkter information Agency BLA said . THE NEWS
• JALALABAD: Several rocket were fired into the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad after dawn on Monday, causing some damage but no casualties’ witnesses said. (THE NEWS).
• BAGRAM: US troops were attacked by a group of gunmen in southeast Afghanistan near the border of Pakistan but three were no casualties US military spokesman said Monday. (The news).
• KABUL: When four German soldiers were Killed in a recent suicide attack in Afghanistan, one silent fact went largely unnoticed in the chaos the deaths marked the first hostile fatalities suffered by the German military since 1945. (THE NEWS).
• KABUL: To attract specialist and profession people to government institution the Afghanistan government is to step up efforts to reform the administrative system. (The News).