Taliban behead Afghan man and woman, police say

Afghan police have found the beheaded bodies of two Afghan civilians in Ghazni province, southwest of the capital Kabul, the provincial police chief said on Saturday.
Taliban insurgents have beheaded dozens of people in Afghanistan in the last two years, accusing them of aiding the pro-Western Afghan government and foreign forces the hardline Islamist insurgents are battling to oust.
"We were informed by local residents that the bodies of a man and a woman were found beheaded in the Rashidan district," said Ghazni police chief Ali Shah Ahmadzai. "The Taliban kidnapped them from the same district three days ago. "The Taliban insurgents accused them of spying and providing information about the Taliban to foreign and Afghan forces in the area," he told Reuters.
But a Taliban spokesman denied any involvement in the killing and said it might have been the result of tribal enmity.
"It must have been the work of the Taliban militants," said Ahmadzai. "The Taliban kill people by beheading, no one else."
So far this year, Afghan authorities have found about 15 beheaded bodies of Afghans in Ghazni province.
Further south, a Dutch soldier was killed by a bomb in the province of Uruzgan, the Dutch military said on Saturday.

عساکرآلماني په جنوب افغانستان ارسال نمي شود

آنگلا مرکل صدرعظم کشورآلمان که دریک سفر غیر منتظره وارد کابل پایتخت افغانستان شده است امروزصبح طی کنفرانس مشترک مطبوعاتی با حامد کرزی رییس جمهورکشور گفت: این کشور با کمال میل جهت بازسازی  برای دولت افغانستان کمک می کند.

میرکل ازملاقات رییس جمهور کرزی اظهارخوشی نموده اضافه کرد که محور این ملاقات  آموزش پولیس وتجهیزآنها بود.

 

به گفته صدرعظم  آلمان عساکر آلمانی که درشمال افغانستان درچوکات نیروهای ناتو مصروف فعالیت های نظامی می باشند برای مدت باقی خواهند ماند وبه جنوب افغانستان اعزام نمی شوند، وصرف ازلحاظ تجهيزات به نیروهای که مصروف جنگ با شورشیان طالب هستند آنها را کمک می کند.

 

این اولین سفر خانم مرکل به افغانستان مى باشد. خانم مرکل دراین نشست خبری افزود: دولت آلمان مصمم است، دولت افغانستان را دربخش های اقتصادی، باسازی و بخصوص درعرصه خود کفایی وبهترشدن وضیعت زندگی زنان افغان کمک نماید

به گفته وی المان در شش سال اخیر مبلغ 850 میلیون دالر را دربازسازی افغانستان به مصرف رسانیده تا سال 2010 این رقم به یک میلیارد دالر خواهد رسید.

صدراعظم آلمان همچنین با سربازان آلمانی حاضر در افغانستان دیدار می کند.

سربازان آلمانی همراه با نیروهای بین المللی در شمال افغانستان حضور دارند. تعداد این سربازان به سه هزار و پانصد نفر می رسد که مسئوولیت آنها تامین امنیت برای طرح های بازسازی افغانستان می باشد.

منطقه شمال افغانس�

why i don't see future for afghanistan?

Private contractors are running Afghanistan show, NGOs, once the main player, have either left the country or subcountracted by Luis Berger or Bearing point. Private contractors manage security risks while they are trying to do most of the job. Luis berger and bearing point are great business ideas, bearing point currently has a contract of 237 million dollars with USAID, their Afghanistan operation is run by former managers and directors of development NGOs. NGOs which once had a dominant role in afghan reconstruction had to vacate the stage for large contractors under sever criticism from government (and public), allegation of corruption and security boundaries.  

 

I see this as a big phenomena, I am surprised that non-profit community didn’t predict this. I haven’t seen a single study on this, I remember meeting all these NGO managers in conferences and they were talking about what ways to increase efficiency and, But nobody saw contractors coming in and an organizational strategy to deal with it.

 

Well, I think this is typical to organizations, they are so trapped with competition and routines that they can’t see the horizon, or they have one lens on when they are scanning the environment. my favorite is the competition between Kodak and Fuji, the official logo of Fuji was ‘Kill Kodak’ and they failed to see digital photography coming and now photography is almost a dead industry with the emergence of digital.

Or another one of my favorite is, Britain assigned a watchman at the south coast to look at the see and alarm London if he sees Napoleon, the guy was looking at the sea with his telescope hoping every minute that he would see napoleon and run to the big bell and alarm London. But it never happened. This job was officially terminated in 1948 and the funny thing is the guy even didn’t notice Hitler bombers J he was just looking at the sea.

 

NGOs perception of the three issues affected their strategy 1) the problems of NGO security, 2) concerns about the militarization of aid, and 3) the public scapegoating of NGOs for the failures of the overall aid effort.

Security of staff is the number one issue for all NGOs working in Afghanistan today. Afghanistan has become the most dangerous country in the world for aid agencies. The Global Civil Society yearbook shows that “terrorist incidents” targeting NGOs have gone up 1300% from the early 1990s to 2005. Today, international staff of most NGOs remain bunkered down in Kabul, flying in and out for R&R, they have no contact with the people they aim to help. PRTs were the good NGOs created four years ago, NGO views on PRTs run the spectrum from blanket refusal to engage with the military to what some see as “principled pragmatism” on the other – that is that NGOs should engage with the PRTs in order to minimize negative impacts on their work. It would be a mistake to see PRTs as threatening competitors, they are not for development purposes.  

 

Popular anger, at the overall slow pace of the reconstruction effort so far and the lifestyle and behavior of some foreigners, has unfairly blamed the NGO sector. Afghans believe little has been done to date, despite the billions of dollars of international funds pledged. Because they work directly with communities, NGOs have become the most highly visible symbols of the international aid effort. Many in the aid community understand the resentment. While the distinction between international NGO staff, foreign contractors working for government donors and foreign private security companies seems straightforward to those in the aid business, for much of the Afghan public, there seems little difference between these groups.

NGOs have lost the fight for humanitarian space for businesses, private contractor are also facing the same problem NGOs did. Contractors might be able to deal with the situation NGOs are facing but in no way they are improving the situation, as a matter of fact the situation is getting worst since contractor take over. The ghetto lifestyle of hundred foreign workers has created further public anger. Contractors are implementing projects ranging from health to handcraft, areas they have to competences. Day by day people see less and less result for the amount of money spent and cynicism is growing. What is actually destroying my morning is people who work for contractors. They are only there for money, stealing from the 7^th poorest country in the world.

 

جنگجويان طالب بالاي يك پوسته امنيتي بندرتورغندي هرات شب پنجشنبه حمله نموده كه تلفاتي را درپي نداشته است .

بندرتورغندي هرات كه در120 كيلومتري شمال شهرهرات ومرز مواصلاتي هرات وتركمنستان ميباشد واقع شده است .

اين حمله درمسيرشاهراه هرات تورغندي بالاي يك پوسته امنيتي صورت گرفته كه تلفات جاني براي پوليس وارد نگرديده است اما با مشاهده شدن اثارخون گمان ميرود طالبان تلفات جاني داشته باشند.

اما قاري يوسف كه خودش را سخنگوي طالبان ميداند درتماس تلفوني به رسانه هاادعانموده است، درنتيجه حمله شان بالاي پوسته امنيتي درمسيرشاهراه هرات تورغندي سه تن ازپوليس را بقتل رسانده ويك تن ديگررا نيز باخود به اسارت برده اند .

اين درحالي است كه امنيت داخلي شهرهرات شديدا ازسوي مقامات امنيتي وپي ارتي تامين بوده وهيچ گونه نا امني درحومه اين شهربچشم نميخورد وهم اكنون اجلاس سازمان اقتصادي اكو وارد روز دومش شده كه قراراست روزجمعه وزراي خارجه ده كشورعضوسازمان متذكره روزجمعه 27 ميزان وارد اين شهرشده وحامد كرزي رئيس جمهوري كشوردرجلسه روزشنبه نيزحضورداشته باشد.