{"id":30448,"date":"2012-06-20T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30448"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:12:33","slug":"so-now-they-want-to-talk-about-human-rights-issues-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30448","title":{"rendered":"So now they want to talk about human rights issues in Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> writes today that some human rights groups are concerned about the future of women and girls in Afghanistan after the US pulls out in 2014. Seems that they would have thought about that before now;<\/p>\n

Over the past two days, women\u2019s rights advocates and others have expressed outrage over comments by the Afghan justice minister in which he claimed that women\u2019s shelters encouraged \u201cimmorality and prostitution,\u201d according to news reports. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s funny because Malalai Joya<\/a>, the former Afghan legislator, has been trolling her way across the country telling Americans that Afghanistan would be better off without the Americans there. For a peek at what Afghanistan will look like after the Taliban take the country back, let’s look at what they’re doing in Pakistan. They’re preventing children from getting polio shots, holding their futures hostage until the CIA ends their drone program according to the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[Hafiz Gul Bahadur] said the decision had been taken by the shura-e-mujahedeen, a council that unites the myriad jihadi factions in the area, including Taliban, Qaeda and Punjabi extremists.<\/p>\n

The announcement, made over the weekend, is a blow to polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, one of just three countries where the disease is still endemic, accounting for 198 new cases last year \u2014 the highest rate in the world, followed by Afghanistan and Nigeria. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Global Post<\/a> reports that Afghan children are being used as weapons already as the US is focused on withdrawal more than combating the Taliban’s unique strategies to undermine good order in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

Hundreds of students have fallen ill in recent weeks after their drinking water was apparently spiked and poison was sprayed into their classrooms. <\/p>\n

The attacks have intensified the debate about the Taliban\u2019s reemergence and possible return to power. When the fundamentalist movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, girl\u2019s education was severely restricted and only around one million children in total were enrolled in schools at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The media is focused on US troops accidentally burning Korans, urinating on corpses and mugging for the cameras, and now that it’s apparent that our whole reason for going into Afghanistan – removing the Taliban – has failed, mainly due to this administration’s signals that we won’t be committed to the destruction of the Taliban and their allies, the Taliban isn’t bothering to disguise their intentions to rule with an iron fist. Back to the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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