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KANDAHAR - A charity organization has started distributing assistance to around 2500 needy families in Kandahar city, Dand, Daman, Arghandab and Panjwai districts.
Later today, when he faces a Hungarian athlete in the Judo competition, Ajmal Faizzada, 25, will become the first Afghan athlete to compete in the 2012 London Olympics. This year Afghanistan has sent six athletes to the games, including one woman.
KANDAHAR - The people of Kandahar, particularly Ulemas, have strongly condemned the fighting tactics of the insurgents, in which they use public properties to reach their goals and cause huge casualties to innocent civilians.
KABUL - Social media is becoming an intrinsic part of urban life in Afghanistan and Afghan youth are increasingly using social websites and weblogs on the internet for wider communications and debates on all kinds of social and political issues.
About 27,000 health workers, volunteers and community mobilizers fanned out across 16 provinces of Afghanistan over the past two weeks in a drive to eradicate measles and polio from the country under a UN-supported Government campaign.
KABUL - Last week, 214 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in 48 separate incidents in Afghanistan. Anti-government elements were responsible for 98 per cent of these civilian casualties.