Future looking bleak for Afghan fortune tellers
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
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As the war-weary Afghans are getting closer to the first-ever presidential polls, the spiraling violence is going to hamper the ongoing stabilization process in the post-war nation, observers here believe.
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Papers in Afghanistan have welcomed the inauguration on Tuesday of Hamid Karzai as president, but warn that the country faces many challenges.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- As the US Black Hawk helicopter skimmed low over the desert, the signs of approaching spring were everywhere: melting frost in the hollows, the first shoots of green in the nearby fields, shrinking snowcaps on distant peaks.
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure
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Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says.
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Entrepreneur Kamela Sediqi teaches Afghans around the country the skills they need to start ventures.
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KARABAGH, Afghanistan -- When Mahmad Naib ventured back to his village north of Kabul after U.S. warplanes and Afghan fighters drove out the Taliban militia in November 2001, he found little but scorched earth. The grapevines were dead, the houses looted, the mosque in ruins and the magnificent...
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November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
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F   atima     Gailani  is used to waiting. After living in exile for 24 years, working for her embattled country out of a suitcase, the 50-year-old Afghan has mastered the virtue of patience by never losing hope. Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan is an important milestone along that journey, she explained, though she knows steep obstacles remain.
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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan  - Life is grim when you   can't pay the rent on a scorpion-infested cave, there is no job   in sight and desperate people are waiting to take your spot.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent study.
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DASHTAK, Afghanistan -- The village of Dashtak sits on a bumpy, washed-out specter of a road, an hour's drive off the main highway between Kabul and Afghanistan's lawless southeast.
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Before the kidnapping of three United Nations workers last month, Afghanistan's capital was beginning to build a reputation as a party town, but everything has changed in recent weeks.
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In a culture increasingly focused on personal wealth, many Chinese look to traditional fortunetelling tools to enrich them.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. - A fortuneteller now sees her future - and it involves 18 months behind bars. Grace Uwanawich, also known as &quot;Mrs.