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I am just back from Afghanistan, going to community college in North Carolina and of course I am still with the US Army Reserves. So I really need to get some things settled quickly. My brother lent me an old car he had in his backyard, although it needs new tires and I have to get the timing fixed or it shall not run much longer. I also need to find some cheap auto insurance. For now I am staying in my uncles’ camper trailer to save up my money. I figure that I have been out in the

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Afghanistan is importing 25 times more tea than its own need. This black tea is used for smuggling purpose in Afghanistan. A lot of trucks full of black tea travel from Pakistan road going to India for exporting this imported black tea. For trading, even passports not needed by the Afghanistan. Kamran Akmal a news reporter of Pakistan was evaluating this trading if it is right. A lot of senior knowledgeable personalities also considered this trading as illegal. The Afghanis people should not enter our land without having passports. Even by using our own roads these people are also

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Backed by a government minister, Afghanistan’s clerics have issued directives to the country’s television broadcasters to take the immensely popular Indian soaps off the screens terming the dramas as un-Islamic. This is a rhetoric often used in Afghanistan during the brutal Taliban regime where only the Sharia was followed but the involvement of a minister in the western-allied Hamid Karzai government in this moral clean-up call is a bit surprising. After the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan was considered to be on the way towards a secular democracy, yet the ban call is not a sign of a gradual

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Since the early 2000s US soldiers have fought in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. This has led to many returning home wounded and requiring assistance to get their life back on track. While veteran services have been around for many years, the rise in the numbers of injured and wounded in recent years put a strain on these. The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF) was established in 2007 to help with this.

The DVNF works with ex-servicemen and women that have suffered problems as a result of their time in the military services. This can include those that

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A government delegation in Kandahar, Afghanistan was attacked yesterday as they visited the site where a US soldier killed 16 women and children earlier this week. Although the US staff-sergeant is now being held by US forces, many Afghan citizens have been calling for revenge – leading many to conclude that his attack could end up costing several British and US lives as the Taliban and Afghan militants look to avenge the killings.

The delegation, in Kandahar to visit tribal elders and villagers who have been in uproar surrounding the attack (in some reports burning US flags and effigies

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