By Hanan Habibzai Powerful warlord, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was appointed on Sunday to lead a delegation tasked with starting peace talks with Taliban. A cleric like many of the Taliban, but an ethnic Tajik like many of their opponents. He and his party has no interest to the returning of Taliban, he fought against the Taliban and there would be little trust on so called reconciliation efforts under him. He was once the leader of a rebel party during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, and served as president in the 1990s when mujahideen factions waged a war for control of power and killed tens of thousands of civilians in capital Kabul and other part of Afghanistan. His gorilla regime ended with the Taliban's rise to power in the 1996. Rabbani subsequently became the political leader of the alliance of Afghan factions, with the help of the foreign countries and United States, overthrew the largely Pashtun Taliban in 2001. After the fall of Taliban regime, the key foes in Northern Alliance under Rabbani accused by international human rights groups being violent against humanity and massacred thousands. These Northern Alliance warlords were direct involved killing thousands of Taliban prisoners earlier 2002. Those warlords who committed crime against humanity after the fall of Taliban as well as in the civil war of the 1990s , apparently criticized the peace talk with the Taliban time to time. ''The Taliban has no trust on any of those warlords who are belonging to Northern Alliance and fought under American-led coalition force against them .'' Said Jan Mohammad ,a Kabul residence. |
By Hanan Habibzai More then three decades of war has forced millions of children in Afghanistan to feed their families. The United Nation figures show that 8.5 million children are the main responsible members of the families working in the streets to earn money and brining food to the rest of households. An Afghan child struggling to earn money for food The Poverty, poor security and an influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries are the main factors that compel families to force their children to work. The Poor security:an Afghan child walking to cross the troops A United Nation survey released last year ,showed that children were employed in a range of heavy jobs from washing cars in the street to working in shops and restaurants as well as in mechanical factories and garages. Afghan employment law specify that children can work from the age of 15 but their working hours must not exceed 35 hours a week. Afghanist...
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