<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In a Jail in Cuba Beat the Heart of a Poet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PESHAWAR, Pakistan  --  Among the old leather volumes in the library of Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is a black plastic binder full of rumpled  letters he wrote, sent from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenmann</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Approves Spending Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate unanimously approved yesterday an $81 billion bill to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, provide relief to Asian tsunami victims and construct a massive embassy in Baghdad.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Disarming Presence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64144-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64144-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marla Ruzicka moved her one-woman human rights crusade to Iraq, where she was killed Saturday in a suicide bombing at age 28.]]></description><author> Pamela Constable</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[General Predicts Taliban's Demise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59533-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59533-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan predicted Saturday that the Taliban militia would collapse as a viable fighting force over the next several months as rank-and-file members accept a reconciliation offer from the Afghan government.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misgivings About an Old But Risky Practice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59531-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59531-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although statistics on the prevalence of marriage between first cousins in Afghanistan are not available, officials suggest the practice is widespread and deeply ingrained.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55058-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55058-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Kyrgyzstan Reassures Rumsfeld on Air Base <br>   BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan  --   Leaders of Kyrgyzstan's interim government assured Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Thursday that political upheaval in the former Soviet republic would not jeopardize American use of an air base to support the war in Afghanistan.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karzai Seeks Extended U.S. Security Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49147-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49147-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan, April 13  --  President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that he was seeking a long-term security arrangement with the United States, but he declined to say whether it would include the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Dominican Ex-President Is Focus of Drug Probe <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic  --   The government said Tuesday it was investigating possible links between former president Hipolito Mejia and a businessman facing cocaine trafficking charges in the United States.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghan Women Still Face Cultural Roadblocks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42443-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42443-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new plan in Herat to teach women to drive and give them licenses is at once a symbol of the official rights women continue to win in Afghanistan and a reminder of the difficulties they still confront in exercising those freedoms.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38818-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38818-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Cairo Bomb Killed American Citizen <br>   CAIRO  --   A bomb in a Cairo bazaar popular with tourists killed a U.S. citizen, a Frenchwoman and a man who was probably the bomber, Egyptian officials said Friday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35787-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35787-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Bomber Attacks Tourists In Cairo; 2 Dead, 18 Injured <br>   CAIRO  --   A blast apparently set off by a bomber on a motorcycle hit a tour group in a historic bazaar Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding 18  --  the first attack targeting foreign tourists in the Egyptian capital in more than seven years.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Copter Crash Kills 16 In Afghanistan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29957-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29957-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan, April 6  --  At least 16 people were killed Wednesday when a U.S. military helicopter crashed in bad weather in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said. It was the most serious military accident since the arrival of U.S. troops here in 2001.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghans Get No Guarantees on Reconstruction Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32388-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32388-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan, April 6  --  U.S. and British officials said they were receptive to a recent request by Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more control over international funds being used to rebuild this war-ravaged country, but they offered no guarantees Wednesday at the conclusion of a three-day meeting between Afghan officials and representatives of more than 40 donor nations and agencies in Afghanistan's capital.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28349-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28349-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Ex-Envoy to Afghanistan Gets Baghdad Posting <br>Zalmay Khalilzad, a former White House official who has served as U.S. ambassador to  his native Afghanistan, was named yesterday to take over the post in Iraq.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[L.A. Times Wins Pulitzer for Public Service]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25368-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25368-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal each won two Pulitzer Prizes today, as the awards recognized work on such issues as hospital problems, railroad safety, stem cell research and, in two cases, the sexual affairs of politicians.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poet Laureate's Prized Words]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26665-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26665-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two Washington authors  --  a reporter and a poet  --  were awarded Pulitzer Prizes Monday.]]></description><author> Linton Weeks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persian New Year Celebrations Unite Afghans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23647-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23647-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan  --  "Looking at the audience, I see that you are all Kandaharis," the singer said into the microphone as he surveyed a sea of heads sporting the sparkly caps and long-tailed turbans common to that southern city. "But my Pashto is not strong, so I hope you will enjoy our music in Dari."]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taliban Suspected in New Attacks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20786-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20786-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 2  --  Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed a convoy of civilian trucks carrying vehicles to the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan, killing three drivers, an Afghan official said Saturday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Lady Applauds Afghans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12153-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12153-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[First lady Laura Bush spent several hours in Afghanistan on Wednesday for a first-time visit intended to promote education for women and to celebrate the gains made by Afghan women since the repressive Taliban government was ousted by U.S.-led forces three years ago.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11428-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11428-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/afghanistan/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Iranian Woman Wants to Make Unprecedented Run at Presidency <br>   TEHRAN  --   A female lawmaker said Tuesday that she wanted to compete in Iran's presidential elections in June, despite the fact that no woman has ever been allowed to run for the office in the Islamic state.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>