London, May 24, 2012,

More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers were rushed to a hospital in a north Afghanistan town following a suspected poison attack blamed on Taliban.
Most of the girls have been discharged but 30 - including three female teachers - are still being treated in the hospital in Takhar province, BBC quoted officials as saying.  read more »

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 17, 2012, Reuters
About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education.
Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul.  read more »

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Afghan prosecutors announced Wednesday that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from twelve to three years. The prosecutor said she would, for now, remain in jail -- with her child -- for not reporting her attack fast enough.  read more »

Ralegan Siddhi, Nov 22 :

Anna Hazare says thet alcoholics should be flogged and shamed in public, a prescription usually given by Taliban. Global Council of Indian Christians(GCIC) condemns Hazare's attempt to talibanise India.Alcaholics needs sypmpatheic mentoring.  read more »

KABUL: The father-in-law of a young Afghan woman who said her nose and ears were sliced off to punish her for running away from her violent husband has been arrested, officials said. The woman, Aisha, gained worldwide attention when she appeared on the August 9 cover of Time magazine. Under orders from a commander acting as a judge, she was disfigured last year as punishment for fleeing her husband's home, according to Time's story in August and other accounts. Just 18 years old at the time, Aisha said she ran away to escape her in-laws' beatings and abuse. AP  read more »

WHEN ALI Mirzia visited India for the first time, he came as an Afghan contestant at the Asian Kickboxing Championship in Mumbai. He left as the welter-weight gold medallist. He was back in 2008, this time as a refugee, escaping religious oppression. Ali is an Afghan Christian. He converted to Christianity in his native country, the hotbed of Islamic intolerance.  read more »