From the Digital Asia Library

Return to South Asia Web Sites Worth Considering

Afghanistan

• Afgha - Press Agency, Afghanistan
  http://www.afgha.com/index.php

  A news service that incorporates both western news agencies, Pakistani and Indian newspapers, as well as Afghani journalists. The archive is by topics: Drugs, Exclusive news, The External factor, History and society, Human rights, Peace process, Refugees, The Taliban, and, United Front



• Afghan news channel
  http://www.afghan-network.net/News/

  Provides an overview of news on Afghanistan in two sections: print and photo. The print section gleans text from internationally known wire services as well as Asian sources such as the Frontier Post and the Telegraph. The photo section provides links to media coverage that includes pictures. No indication of an archive



• Afghan women under the tryanny of the fundamentalists
  http://rawasongs.fancymarketing.net/women.html

  A collection of articles relating to the conditions of women under the Taliban



• Afghanistan
  http://www.icarp.org/afghan.html

  The Afghanistan portion of the Asian Studies section of the World Wide Web Library. Arranged by the following sections: General Information, Economics & business, Politics and law, Religion. There is also an extensive bibliography, unfortunately simply arranged A-Z with no subject breakdown



• Afghanistan Country Study and Government Publications
  http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/afghanistan/

  The online version of the Area Handbooks produced initially by the Dept. of Defense and more recently by the Library of Congress. An excellent forumula-driven compendium of information on history, economic conditions, politics and government, social conditions, and United States official interactions. The basic text dates to 1986 but chapters 1 (Introduction and historical setting) and 2 (Society and its environment) have just been updated (October 2001)



• Afghanistan news network
  http://www.myafghan.com/

  An American-based project to survey the major news agencies for their coverage of Afghanistan. Archived from 18 April 2000



• Afghanistan online
  http://www.afghan-web.com/

  A basic informational website on Afghanistan giving basic information, historical overview, extracts from the world press (with links to archives when available), geography, politics, the Kabul Museum, and a photo gallery



• Afghanistan Peace Association (APA)
  http://www.afghan-web.com/apa/

  Website of an Afghan exile group located in the United States. Latest information appears to be 1997. Contains information on a scholarship established for Afghan women



• Afghanistan, Amnesty International Report, 2000
  http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf
  /countries/f45d4bd4ae8ee428802568f200552988?OpenDocument

  The Amnesty International human rights report for 2000 on Afghanistan



• Azadi Afghan radio
  http://www.afghanradio.com/azadi.html

  The radio service on Afghanistan broadcast in San Francisco and Washington D.C. by a Pakistani-American radio. Archived since January 1998



• Institute for Afghan Studies
  http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/index.htm

  The Institute for Afghan Studies (IAS) is a non-profit, non-political, independent organization, founded and run by young Afghan scholars from around the world. The mission of the Institute is to be a center for research and a credible source of information about Afghanistan. Has an extensive section on National Treasures and their destruction



• Lemar - Aftaab
  http://www.afghan-web.com/

  An online quarterly journal dealing with the arts, history, and culture of Afghanistan. Archive available from July-September 1997



• News links Australasia
  http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~afghans/news.htm

  A list of online radio services which carry Dari and Pushto programs. The broadcast sources include Radio Afghan Dari News Serivces, BBC Dari and Pashto news, Deutsche Welle Dari and Pashto news, Iran Radio and Television, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, and Voice of America



• Omaid weekly
  http://www.omaid.com/

  A weekly news journal sponsored by the Afghan diaspora community. Print edition began in 1991, online archive available since August 2000



• PerPerry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Afghanistan Maps, University of Texas-Austin
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html

  An extensive and up to date list of available online maps compiled at the University of Texas-Austin PerPerry Castameda Map Library. The maps primarily come from the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Links are provided to other websites with Afghanistan map holdings



• Presidential Palace of the Islamic State of Afghanistan
  http://www.afghangovernment.org/

  Contains biogaphical information on President Rabbani, leader of the Afghan Government which was replaced by the Islamic Taliban movement in 1996. Includes information on the Leadership Council and its members, press releases, and a weekly news bulletin. URL http://www.afghangovernment.org/



• Radio voice of Mujahid
  http://www.payamemujahid.com/radio/index.htm

  Radio broadcasts of the three day a week service (Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday) from Afghanistan in both Pushto and Dari



• Relief Web Afghanistan
  http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE
  /Afghanistan?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&Expandview

  The Afghanistan section of Relief Web. Primarily provides text of documents issued by the United Nations Information Centre, Human Rights Watch, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), NetAid, World Health Organization, and World Food Programme. Archived from July 1999



• Reports from fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan
  http://rawasongs.fancymarketing.net/recent2.htm

  A collection of articles published 1997 to the present on conditions in Afghanistan. Contains a glossary of Afghan terms



• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
  http://www.rawa.org/

  Political and social organization working for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights, operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Their work involves documenting human rights abuses in Afghanistan distributing humanitarian aid to victims, education for women and refugee children, and health care. This large site includes extensive information about their work, press releases, press clippings, a photo gallery, video clips (in MPG, RealAudio, MOV, and AVI formats), audio clips of patriotic songs (in MP3 format), contents of their publications, RAWA documents, and general information on Afghanistan and women. Many of the pages are avaliable in Italian, Spanish, French, or Persian



• Voice of Afghanistan Radio (Canada)
  http://www.voiceofafghanistan.com/

  A Toronto-based radio broadcasting in Dari from 10 p.m. to midnight, weeknights. Archive of previous week available



• WAPHA
  http://www.wapha.org/

  Website of an Afghan women's exile community. Primarily deals with the treatment of women in Afghanistan since 1996 when the Taliban assumed control of the country

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