Afghan Paper Calls for Checks on "Tribal-Based, Partisan" Media Sources
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Text of article by Nangarhari in Pashto entitled "Mass media should be controlled based on a particular legal framework" by Afghan state-run newspaper Anis on 7 February  The freedom of speech is one of the biggest achievements of the current democratic system in the past five years.
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WASHINGTON -- With new fighting expected to break out this spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to John Negroponte, the director of national ...
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A senior Taliban commander has threatened  to kill an Italian reporter accused of spying if the Italian  government does not meet the group's demands, a Pakistan-based  news agency reported.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying yesterday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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An Italian newspaper rejects Taleban claims that one of its journalists, kidnapped in Afghanistan, is a spy.
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Journalists are insisting help is needed for those required to bear witness to the atrocities of war.
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On 21A of Wednesday&#39;s paper, a headline appeared above an interview. The headline, &quot;Abbas takes hard stance on refugees,&quot; should have been more visible.
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Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday said U.S. troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish or air any images of U.S. troops or a car where three Afghans were shot to death.
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China announced rules on Sunday   requiring foreign media to seek approval from its state news   agency to distribute news, pictures and graphics domestically,   and warned against reports that "endanger national security."
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Text of report by Afghan state TV on 6 February  [Presenter] A radio station called Saday-e Azad Nejrab [Free Voice of Nejrab] has started operating in Kapisa Province.
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Britain has launched a reconciliation drive in Afghanistan in an effort to undermine the radical Islamist Taliban militia, The Guardian reported in an early edition of its Tuesday newspaper.
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Reporters there say they face a growing threat from feuding political factions.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An independent commission will probe claims by all 15 challengers to interim leader Hamid Karzai that Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was marred by incompetence and fraud, a top official said Sunday.    The move to head off the attack on the vote's legitimacy came as workers began the long process of collecting ballots from Saturday's historic election, in which Karzai was a heavy favorite...
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Pakistan's government is equipping and sending militants into Afghanistan, a state-run Afghan paper said on Wednesday, the harshest criticism yet against Islamabad in the face of the bloodiest violence since the Taliban's fall.
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PRAGUE, Jan 17 (IPS) - In the midst of a war between government and the  media, a new and controversial press bill will force media  outlets to publish anyone's reactions to articles considered  offensive.
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Campaigning is under  way for Afghanistan's presidential poll, amid warnings of insecurity and intimidation.
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President Hamid Karzai is among four candidates who submitted complaints about Afghanistan's disputed elections ahead of the start of counting, now expected on Thursday, officials said.