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  1. Afghan/schools You take our motorbikes, we close your schools: bit.ly/JQzALt 9:00 AM May 25th via web
  2. Afghan/Kabul Can Kabul lose its layers of dust and be green again? bit.ly/Mbz60c 10:53 AM May 21st via web
  3. Afghan/peaceprocess Are Taliban surrenders being faked in Ghazni?: bit.ly/J6LgWs 10:25 AM May 18th via web
  4. Afghan/innovation Don't sweat it dude, try the Irfan Cooler man: bit.ly/LS1X9F 7:04 AM May 16th via web
  5. Afghan/capitalflight All aboard for Dubai. Afghan cash flees to safer ground: bit.ly/L6FysL 6:33 AM May 15th via web
  6. Afghan/resources The lapis lazuli gemstone is a winner, but for who? bit.ly/KSsgKo 4:07 AM May 12th via web
  7. Afghan/property The ink has dried on the strategic pact, but property buyers are still holding back: bit.ly/J8W1Ik 1:33 AM May 7th via web
  8. Afghan/US Afghans ponder the much trumpeted strategic pact just signed by Obama and Karzai: bit.ly/IVBl6K 12:38 PM May 5th via web
  9. Afghan/innovation Is it a bird, an F-16? An amateur drone builder takes his work into the skies over Nimroz: bit.ly/KfeLtG 6:48 AM May 3rd via web
  10. Afghan/narcotics A fresh assault on the poppy fields incenses Kandahar farmers and insurgents: bit.ly/JvomHV 2:19 AM Apr 27th via web
  11. As foreign troops in Afghanistan rush for the exit, so are the country's businessmen bit.ly/I0NLsG 12:32 AM Apr 25th via web
  12. How Afghanistan keeps the balance between its allies US and Iran bit.ly/I7vu1z 2:03 AM Apr 24th via web
  13. Afghan/Childlabour Thousands of childhoods are consumed by the brick kilns: bit.ly/HXPcH9 7:01 AM Apr 22nd via web
  14. Afghan/protests How insurgents in Jalalabad are using student protests to win hearts and minds: bit.ly/ICSY8V 11:53 AM Apr 11th via web
  15. Afghan/resources Tribal tug of war has paralysed Khost's chromite cash cow: bit.ly/I01QXY 7:54 AM Apr 10th via web
  16. The reopening of Herat's national museum has revived the debate about stolen antiques and the complicity of officials bit.ly/H2Pwst 6:10 AM Mar 31st via web
  17. Afghan/security They come by night: No surprise that Afghans dislike US night raids, but what are people saying? bit.ly/HoI3DZ 1:11 PM Mar 29th via web
  18. How a young woman from Khost fought the Taliban and became a role model, compared by some to a 19th century heroine bit.ly/GVcwVI 5:13 AM Mar 28th via web
  19. While much has been reported about the alleged spree killer of Kandahar, little is known about the victims. bit.ly/HfE8r0 1:05 AM Mar 27th via web
  20. Curse or blessing? Is the Afghan government able to manage the mineral wealth to the best effect for the country? bit.ly/GPYNyG 5:19 AM Mar 25th via web
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