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PAKISTAN: Women's committee highlights problems facing women in quake camps
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MUZAFFARABAD, 21 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Over 30 women sitting in a tent in quake-ravaged northern Pakistan are holding up their right arms high in the air, waiting for their turn to talk. Many are clutching scraps of paper with meticulous lists written on them.Full report
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KYRGYZSTAN: Typhoid cases reported in south
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OSH, 21 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Almost half a dozen patients have been hospitalised in southern Kyrgyzstan with typhoid in a town near radioactive dump sites. “Eight local residents have been hospitalised over the past week in the Mailuu-Suu town in the southern province of Jalal-Abad and we have five confirmed cases," officials said.Full report
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AFGHANISTAN: Five ex-commanders surrender arms to DIAG
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KABUL, 21 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Five ex-commanders in Afghanistan's southwestern Paktya province voluntarily surrendered 15 mt of ammunition, as well as more than 30 light and heavy weapons, to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme, officials from the UN-backed initiative announced on Tuesday in the Afghan capital, Kabul.Full report
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NEPAL: Grave danger for civilians due to the conflict
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NAWALPARASI, 21 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Kul Kumari Chapagain has not been able to sleep for over a week since she lost her 21-year-old daughter Asmita in a roadside bomb planted by the Maoist rebels.Full report
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AFGHANISTAN: Militants set fire to a school in southern Helmand
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KABUL, 21 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Suspected Taliban militants have set fire to a school for some 1,500 boys in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Full report
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PAKISTAN: USAID voucher programme makes difference in quake-affected north
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ISLAMABAD, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - A United States Agency for International Development (USAID) voucher distribution programme has begun to improve life for villagers in the quake-ravaged Bagh district of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.Full report
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PAKISTAN: Mob violence heightens insecurity among minorities
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LAHORE, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Huddled in a small group, three Christian men pore over the newspapers early in the morning in the congested Mozang area of Lahore. All around, vendors serve up thick, milky tea, glasses of ‘lassi’ (a yoghurt drink), greasy ‘parathas’ (flattened, fried bread) and spicy omelets.Full report
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KYRGYZSTAN: Landslide activity starts early in 2006
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ARAVAN, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - A landslide on Sunday ripped through a road linking the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh with the Aravan district, blocking traffic and destroying electricity and telephone services to the area, with no casualties reported.Full report
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NEPAL: Terrorism or liberation? Life in a rebel-held village
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NEPAL, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - When the clock strikes four in the morning, Lambu Lama and his family rush out of their home in a Maoist stronghold of Nepal. Rebels use the storeroom at the back of Lama’s house to clean and repair small arms and construct bombs. During the day, the orchards around his hilltop house echo to the sound of rifles cracking, as new recruits are initiated in the use of weapons.Full report
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NEPAL: Overview analysis: A people’s war?
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NEPAL, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Nepal’s brutal conflict between Maoist insurgents and security forces has exacted a heavy toll on the civilian population, especially those in contested hill districts, many of whom already live near or on the global poverty threshold.Full report
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