Good news about Afghanistan

By Sardar Ahmad, in Kabul for AFP 1056AM GMT 09 March 2010

About time too. Photo AFP/Gtty

Stories about war, depressed soldiers, self-murder bombs, drug traffickers, kidnappings, poison attacks on schoolgirls - bad headlines had dominated given the 2001 US-led advance overthrew the Taliban regime.

So he set up Good Afghan News to fill the gap.

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"Sure, you find sprinkles of great headlines here and there," pronounced Qazi by email from his home in northern California.

"But they don"t get the courtesy (they) need given they are customarily in the same journal that"s carrying 3 or 4 alternative articles revelation people how bad things are in Afghanistan," he said.

And he"s right - there are a little great headlines stories in Afghanistan.

Billions of assist dollars pumped in to Afghanistan given 2001 have helped set up roads, energy stations, irrigation systems and hospitals opposite the country.

Millions of children, together with girls, are right away going to school.

Preventable diseases such as polio are being dealt with, thousands of clinics have been set up to yield much-needed health caring in farming areas and notwithstanding fast problems of corruption, millions of people opinion in elections.

But to one side the assist efforts, 121,000 US and Nato infantry are stationed in the nation - shortly to climb to 150,000 - to quarrel a Taliban insurgency.

Many of these infantry are assisting to sight the Afghan armed forces and infantry to safeguard Western nations can begin pulling out their own infantry in about eighteen months, as their participation in Afghanistan is increasingly without a friend both in between Afghans and in their home countries.

A large descent opposite Taliban insurgents and their drug-trafficking cohorts in the southern range of Helmand has compounded the consistent drumbeat of bad news.

Operation Mushtarak has replaced thousands of families, and commanders contend it could be weeks prior to the militants are pushed out and the booby-trap bombs they have left at the back of are cleared.

Nato mistakes are racking up a flourishing fee of civilians opposite the country, as well as heightening Afghan open annoy about the unfamiliar infantry presence.

These factors shroud anything great that competence happen, from exports of apples to illusory general success in cricket that has seen the inhabitant group validate for the World Twenty20 finals.

That"s where http://www.goodafghannews.com comes in, pronounced Qazi.

To have certain his summary gets across, he illustrates his site with a smiley face wearing a normal Afghan turban.

"This site is opposite in that we usually concentration on the great news. If it is bad headlines we pass, given there are already sufficient sources for that kind of news," Qazi said.

The tinge of the website is upbeat, the headlines sprinkled with copiousness of call for help outlines along with photos of sports heroes, happy young kids and industrious men digging irrigation channels and given money crops alternative than drug poppies.

Unsavoury topics such as human rights abuses are dealt with in a certain light - for instance, falls in assault opposite women and kid abuse.

"How honeyed it is! It"s an sparkling day for Afghan sports fans all over the world," reads a title about Afghanistan"s basketball group at the new 2010 South Asian Games in Bangladesh, where Afghan athletes won five bullion medals.

"More Afghans right away with entrance to electricity," reads an additional title on a prolonged inform about dual small energy plants in a remote northern Afghan village.

Another essay goes in to item about a girls" propagandize in horse opera Herat range being saved and built by unfamiliar troops.

"The propagandize includes 10 classrooms, 6 executive bedrooms and a sports gymnasium. The propagandize will house the needs of 600 students," it says, reminding readers that in between 1996 and 2001 the Taliban system of administration criminialized girls from in attendance school.

In the couple of months given Qazi proposed Good Afghan News with the aphorism "Afghan headlines that will have you happy," he has purebred thousands of hits from Afghans, he said.

"I could simply see thousands on vacation the site each day. Everyone I discuss it about the site loves the thought and tells me they will widespread the word," he said.

But the most appropriate headlines from Afghanistan, he said, has nonetheless to come.

"My greatest wish? I would similar to to see a permanent assent in Afghanistan."