British Cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan
This is the story of Rahimullah who was the groundskeeper for the British / Christian cemetery in Kabul for about 3 decades.
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My name is Rahimulla. I have been the keeper of the British cemetery in Qala Musa for 28 years. The Christian cemetery is where they bring the foreigners when they die in Kabul. This land belongs to the foreigners. I think I am doing a good job here. Other people in the community criticise me, saying that I look after the graves of infidels, but I don't care. I need the money to feed my family. I am an old man and I can't find other work.
Feature on Christian minority community near Afghan border
1. Exterior of Church of the Holy Rosary.
2. Father Maximus Peter Fernando at altar with incense burner.
3. Man playing drums/ congregation singing.
4. Various of worshippers taking communion.
5. Candle.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Father Maximus Peter Fernando, Priest:
Certainly there is a fear among the people, because from the mosques we have been hearing some kind of threatening words, and also abuses of the Christians.
7. Father Fernando at altar/ congregation sits.
8. Various of congregation
9. Pull back from tapestry of Jesus to congregation.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hina Gulzar, Christian:
The Muslims want to attack the Christians, and especially the ladies, so we feel very insecure and want your help.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Sadeeq, Christian:
Everybody doesn't know what will happen. So no-one can help us in Pakistan as a Christian community.
12. Father Fernando in church.
13. Congregation
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's Christian minority fears it could be attacked as Muslim anger grows at the prospect of a international assault on targets in Afghanistan.
At the small Church of the Holy Rosary in Quetta, the congregation is terrified of becoming martyrs.
Quetta is 150 kilometres from the Afghanistan border and the Christian community forms a tiny 2 percent of the population.
They are praying America and its allies can defeat terrorism without striking the Taliban and triggering a holy war.
When U.S. President George Bush called the war against terrorism a crusade, a remark which has since been withdrawn, many in Pakistan took offence.
Father Maximus Peter Fernando said the fears of Quetta's Christians had been heightened by threats from the town's Mosques.
He's asked police to provide extra security for his church and its worshippers.
Some of the 150 members of Father Fernando's congregation have suffered verbal abuse.
Hina Gulzar said as a Christian woman, she felt particularly vulnerable.
Others worshippers fear foreign countries will not intervene if Christians do suffer a violent backlash.
Quetta has three small Christian churches.
The community fears its slightly higher standard of living than local Muslims also makes it a visible target for attack.
Christians are the largest religious minority in Pakistan.
They number around 10 million, in a total population of more than 120 million.
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Christian worker slain in Kabul
A British Christian aid worker murdered in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul last week has been laid to rest.
The funeral of Gayle Williams, 34, was held in Kabuls British cemetery on Sunday. The ceremony was joined by around 50 expatriates, including mother Pat and sister Karen, as well as the British Deputy Head of Mission Andrew Patrick and Vice-Consul Laurence Jenkins.
Williams was shot dead last week as she walked to the offices of Serve Afghanistan, the organization she had spent the last few years volunteering for.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for her death, saying it had killed her because she was spreading Christianity.
During the funeral Sunday, mourners heard a reading of Williams favorite Psalm, Psalm 84, and joined in singing hymns. Afghan police stood guard nearby and streets were sealed off to prevent traffic passing close to the cemetery.
The leader of the funeral declined to be named out of concerns for security. He was quoted by the BBC as describing Williams as a delightful young woman who loved life.
[A]nd she had that life cruelly cut short, he continued.
Two armed men gunned down a young, defenseless girl. It is hard to see this as anything other than a cowardly act that brings shame on the people who carried out this murder. And it brings shame and guilt on those that inspired them to do it.
A colleague at Serve Afghanistan said Williams had a positive perspective on life and through her joyfulness many heavy clouds were lifted.
She was a joyful and courageous woman, the colleague was quoted as saying. We lost a dear co-worker and we loved her.
Williams family later visited the presidential palace at the invitation of President Hamid Karzai.
Serve Afghanistan has halted operations in the country following Williams death, and is one of many aid agencies in the region reviewing security and future operations.
The U.K.-registered Christian charity has been working with Afghan refugees since 1980 in Pakistan and gradually moved both its project work and its head office into Afghanistan itself. In 2005 Serve provided full-time paid employment to over 200 Afghan nationals.
Aurel Stein's Grave - British Cemetery Kabul, Afghanistan by William Nowik
when i 1st went to afghanistan in 2006 a friend, peter genovese, asked me to find the grave of stein and place a stone on stein's marker. as i'd not heard of stein before i did some research on him. i did find stein's grave and put a stone on his marker for my friend.
Hundreds rally against decision to free Christian convert
SHOTLIST
Mazar-i-Sharif
1. Various of crowd marching
2. Riot police at the scene
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Cleric (No name available):
The time for your power Karzai and Qanooni (Head of Afghan Parliament) is only for four years we will not support you any more.
Kabul
3. Wide shot conference
4. Mid shot Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan Minister of Foreign affairs:
I hope there is a solution for this. I don't know the details of the outcome. I cannot judge it. It is in the judicial procedure and I hope there is a solution for it, that takes into account the constitutional rights of our citizens with no damage to the image of Afghanistan.
Mazar-i-Sharif
6. Various of protest march with security forces watching demonstrators
STORYLINE
Chanting Death to Christians, hundreds of clerics, students and others marched Monday through an Afghan city to protest against a court's decision to toss out a case against a man who faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity, police said.
Police in riot gear stood guard but did not intervene in the protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Despite the trial being dismissed, uncertainty surrounds how and when the man, Abdul Rahman, might be released, with Muslim leaders still calling for his execution despite a storm of international protest.
Clerics criticised the government for the move with one rally leader saying:The time for your power Karzai and Qanooni (Head of Afghan Parliament) is only for four years we will not support you any more.
Several Muslim clerics have threatened to incite Afghans to kill Rahman if he is freed, saying that he is clearly guilty of apostasy and deserves to die.
The court dismissed the case because of problems with the evidence and testimony by Rahman's family that he was insane.
Prosecutors have demanded Rahman be examined to determine whether he is mentally unfit to stand trial.
Monday's protest against the court's decision ended peacefully about two hours after it started, said police officials.
A senior Afghan official, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter, told the AP that Rahman would be freed shortly, but that the details of how it would be done were still being hammered out.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said at a news conference in the capital, Kabul, that he was optimistic the issue would soon be resolved.
I hope there is a solution for it, that takes into account the constitutional rights of our citizens with no damage to the image of Afghanistan, Abdullah said.
Rahman was being prosecuted for converting 16 years ago while working as a medical aid worker for an international Christian group helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
He was arrested last month after police discovered him with a Bible.
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8911C
(10 Mar 1989) }8911C RR 8911C - AFGHANISTAN: WOMEN
10.3.89 (dur: 8 mins 5 secs / eng.sot: 59 secs)
RR STORY: With the withdrawal of Soviet forces from
Afghanistan, the government of President Najibullah faces an
increasing threat from Mujahaddin rebels, but it is the
country's women who stand to lose most if the Mujahaddin
seize power and install a revolutionary Islamic government.
SHOWS: Kabul skyline = market = soldiers = women in market =
file Afghan war showing Mujahaddin attack = mosque = men
praying = soldiers buying postcards = military parade = women
soldiers = army base = sot women soldier = propaganda poster
showing woman as peacemaker = hospital = children injured in
rocket attack = doctors treating patients = cemetery =
mourners at graveside = special housing for war widows =
women working in co-operative women signing up for army = sot
women conscript = Mujahiddin propaganda posters = women on
streets of Kabul.
SOURCE: WTN
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Feud between Kabul's last remaining Jews
1. Various of Ishaq Levin praying at the Jewish cemetery of Kabul.
2. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ishaq Levin: I came here today to deliver my prayers. This is the old Jewish cemetery of
Kabul where more than 500 of my people, most of them my relatives in one way or the other are buried.
3. Various of Afghan children watching Levin pray
4. Various of Levin praying
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ishaq Levin: There used to be 70-80 Jewish families living in Kabul alone plus some 150
families in the town of Herat in the West. But when the political turmoil started in Afghanistan some
twenty five years ago, all those revolutions and wars, almost everyone fled to Israel. So, for the last
twenty five years I'm totally alone alone here.
6. Various of Zebulon Simentov praying at the Kabul synagogue
7. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Zebulon Simentov: Our elders in Israel wanted me to take the Torah and other holy
scrolls from Kabul synagogue to Israel. But Ishaq Levin did not want that to happen. He reported me to
the Taliban police as a thief and a dangerous subversive element.
7. Various dilapidated interiors of synagogue
8. Zebulon Simentov showing the writ issued by Taliban banning him from opening the cupboard containing
Jewish scrolls
9. Peeling synagogue walls
10. Stairs between the ground and the first floor of the synagogue with the Star of David as an ornament
11. Ishaq Levin praying in his room at the first floor of the synagogue
12. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ishaq Levin: When he arrived I was hoping he would become my support and soulmate.
instead he reported me to the Taliban police who beat me
13. Various exteriors of the Kabul synagogue
14. Zebulon Simentov praying in the synagogue's main room
15. Ishaq Levin praying in his room
STORYLINE:
The Jewish community in Afghanistan was once a proud one, with 40-thousand people, flourishing businesses and a
distinctive Torah design.
But the population eroded through the last century, and recent decades have seen the Soviet invasion,
civil war and the rise of the radical Islamic Taliban movement to power.
After Israel came into being in 1948, most of the 5,000 Jews still in Afghanistan emigrated there, but Ishaq Levin stayed in Kabul. He was the synagogue's shamash, or caretaker, before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, when most of the remaining Jews left.
Now in his late seventies - he says he does not know how old he is - Levin often visits the Jewish cemetery where some 500 Jews were buried in the last 150 years. Most of them are related to Levin in one way or another.
The cemetery stands totally abandoned in the outskirts of Kabul with not a single tomb stone remaining intact. It's in an area that saw some of the most ferocious fighting of the war between Afghan mujahedin and Taliban for control over the Afghan capital.
Levin likes to say that he's the only Jew remaining in Kabul. That is not exactly the case.
Zebulon Simentov, 43 is another Kabul Jew and a bitter enemy of Levin. Simentov re-emigrated from Israel some
five years ago. He wanted to start a carpet business and also to send the Kabul synagogue Torah to
where most of Afghan Jews now are - Israel. He has failed on both counts.
Today Afghanistan's last two Jews, Ishaq Levin and Zebulon Simentov, live at separate ends of the same
decaying synagogue in the Afghan capital and are feuding, each claiming to be the rightful owner of the
synagogue and its paraphernalia.
The walls of the building are peeling. The windows are shattered and old prayer books are crumbling in
the holy ark.
An old staircase with the Star of David as a wrought iron ornament serves as boundary between two men, with
Simentov controlling the main praying chamber and Levin the bottom floor.
running a brothel.
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The only British Cemetery in Kabul Afganistan/گورستان تاریخی انگلیس ها در قلب کابل
این گورستان ۱۸۰ ساله محل دفن سربازان انگلیسی است
گورستان انگلیسیها یا «قبرگورا» درکابل، پایتخت افغانستان، با ورود نظامیان بریتانیایی به افغانستان درسال ۱۸۳۹ میلادی ایجاد شد. براساس شواهد تاریخی این گورستان در بخش غربی تپه وزیرمحمد اکبرخان، که متصل به پایگاه نظامیان بریتانیایی وقت بود، بنا شده است که امروز به نام «قبرگورا» یا گورستان سربازان انگلیس شهرت دارد. این گورستان حدود۳ یا ۴ هزار متر مربع وسعت دارد و توسط یک نگهبان افغان که از سوی سفارت بریتانیا استخدام شده، نگهداری میشود.
گورستان انگلیسیهای کابل ۱۸۰ سال قدمت دارد. این گورستان محل دفن اجساد افسران ارشد و سربازان انگلیسی است که درجنگهای افغان وانگلیس کشته شدهاند. دولت وقت بریتانیا درآن زمان اجساد افسران و سربازان کشته شده را به دلیل فاصله زیاد تا بریتانیا و احتمال از بین رفتن اجساد در مسیر، در نزدیکترین محل به قرارگاه آنها دفن میکرده است.
گفته میشود حالا هم پیروان مسیحیت که توانایی انتقال اجساد درگذشتگان خود به کشورهای متبوعشان را ندارند، آنها را در همین گورستان دفن میکنند.
بر روی در و دیوار این گورستان، تابلوهایی به چشم میخورد که روی آنها اسامی سربازان خارجی که پس از سال ۲۰۰۱ در جنگ با طالبان درافغانستان کشته شده و در این محل دفن شدهاند، ثبت شده است.
نگهبان گورستان میگوید که هرسال بستگان تعدادی از سربازان بریتانیایی که در جنگهای افغان و انگلیس در افغانستان کشته شده و اینجا دفن شدهاند به گورستان میآیند و بر مزار نزدیکان خود به برگزاری مراسم میپردازند.
Taliban shows off items seized from detained aid workers
1. Wide shot of videos, tapes and leaflets on floor
2. Close up of documents in local languages
3. Close up of tapes
4. Close up Video tape with 'Jesus' written on it with Farsi translation
5. Wide shot tapes
6. Close up leaflet with pictorial illustrations of Christianity
7. Audio cassette tapes
8. Close up book 'Firm Foundations - Creation to Christ' pan to file
9. Close up CD disks 'Dari' pull out to tapes
10. Wide shot tapes and Christian literature
11. Wide shot of exhibits
12. Shot of open files and Talibans looking at evidence
13. Close up of leaflet
STORYLINE:
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Monday displayed what it calls evidence of a conspiracy by western aid organisations to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity.
In the capital of Kabul, Mohammed Wali, the Taliban's minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, issued a notice to all aid organisations that their aid projects will be scrutinised by three Taliban ministries -- security, vice and virtue and intelligence.
The Taliban's Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil said the ruling Islamic militia feared a conspiracy by western aid organisations, including the World Food Program, to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity.
The investigators are looking at a larger conspiracy by countries and organisations to try to convert good Afghan Muslims to Christianity, Muttawakil told reporters in Kabul.
One week ago the Taliban arrested 24 workers of Shelter Now International, including eight foreigners -- two Americans, four Germans and two Australians.
The foreign aid workers were charged with proselytising.
The evidence, which was seized from the office of Shelter Now International, included compact discs, cassettes and literature - all containing stories about Christianity, the coming of Jesus Christ and all translated into local languages.
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Afghanistan: At least 7 dead in Kabul bomb attack at protest victim's funeral
At least seven people were killed and over 100 injured following three suicide bomb attacks, in Kabul, Saturday, at the funeral of a protester killed on Friday. People wounded in the attack were seen arriving at a surgical centre in the Afghan capital run by the 'EMERGENCY' NGO.
The bombs were detonated during the funeral of a demonstrator, Salem Izidyar, who was among the five killed on Friday when clashes erupted between police and protesters demonstrating near the site of Wednesday’s deadly Kabul truck blast.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Christian Cemetery,
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Afghanistan: the Great Game (Part I)
#TheGreatGame In this episode Stewart tells the story of #Soviet and United States involvement in #Afghanistan. From 1928 until 1978 there had been relative peace and in the 1960s and '70s was on the hippie trail but the #coldwar was at its height with Afghanistan surrounded by American allies #Iran and #Pakistan. In northern Afghanistan soviet aid was provided and in southern Afghanistan American aid. In #Kabul Islamists and communists vied for supremacy and when the communists took control in 1978 they asked the #SovietUnion for military assistance. Reluctantly they agreed after the Afghan president went to #Moscow in 1979. 80,000 troops entered Afghanistan and the United States saw a chance for revenge against the Soviets who aided the communists in Vietnam. The #CIA covertly through #GeneralZia, President of Pakistan, provided modern weaponry. #CharlieWilson and socialite #JoanneHerring were prominent in the raising of 9 billion dollars covertly passed to Afghanistan. In 1988 the Soviets pulled out and the country descended into a vicious five-year civil war that the #Taliban emerged victorious imposing strict Islamic law. Afghanistan became a safe haven for many #terrorist groups and when the twin towers were attacked in New York the USA.
Memorial for IAM aid workers
(12 Aug 2010)
1. Pan from grave stones to people gathering in British cemetery in Kabul for holding memorial ceremony for the killed IAM (International Assistance Mission) workers
2. Close up of cross
3. Various of foreign diplomats arriving for the memorial
4. Woman standing next to a grave
5. Close up of cross
6. Various of foreign diplomats
7. Zoom out from cross sign to graveyard
8. Wide pan from graves to foreigners in the cemetery
STORYLINE:
A memorial was held on Thursday for the members of a medical group that were killed last week in a remote area of northern Afghanistan.
The 10 members - six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and a German - were on a mission organised by a Christian Charity group, called International Assistance Mission (IAM) providing medical care to impoverished villagers in Nuristan province. On their way back to Kabul they were accosted by gunmen.
IAM said on Thursday that militants, not robbers are to blame for the killings. In the first days after the attack, the International Assistance Mission leaders said they suspected the team was set upon by robbers, despite a Taliban claim of responsibility.
Local police also said they suspected a criminal motive behind the killings.
The director of the IAM Dirk Frans claimed that the murders were not a robbers, but an opportunistic ambush.
Frans said the team was attacked as they made their return trip towards Kabul from their mission to dispense medical care to villagers in remote Nuristan province.
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INDIA ORDERS DEPORTATION AFGHAN CHRISTIAN WIDOW (RescueChristians.org).flv
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Funeral for British aid worker killed earlier in the week
1. Wide of security at entrance to British Cemetery
2. Close-up of sign reading (English): British Cemetery
3. Various of British aid worker Gayle Williams' colleagues carrying coffin
4. Mid of Afghan security watching funeral
5. Mid of Williams' family members and colleagues walking at cemetery
6. Williams' mother with family members and Williams' colleagues
7. Wide of mourners around coffin
8. Wreath with picture of Williams
9. Wide of funeral UPSOUND: (English) man at funeral, name not given:
Two armed men gunned down a young, defenceless girl. It is hard to see this as anything other than a cowardly act.
10. Williams' mother and sister during funeral
11. Wide of funeral, with man playing guitar and people singing
12. Various of burial
13. Williams' mother crying
14. Flowers and petal being thrown at coffin inside grave
15. Close-up of Williams' sister crying
16. Mid of mourners
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rina van der Ende, SERVE Afghanistan aid group spokesperson:
It was a decision she made herself, she wrote down as a desire, if something would happen, she would like to be buried in Kabul so that's something she wanted to do, she wanted to work in Afghanistan and she wanted to be buried in Afghanistan.
18. Mid of picture of Williams on her grave
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rina van der Ende, SERVE Afghanistan aid group spokesperson:
As far as SERVE is concerned, they hope to continue with all the activities they have but the detailed decisions will be made further during the week.
20. Wide of cemetery with cross in foreground
STORYLINE:
A funeral for an aid worker killed by gunmen in Afghanistan earlier this week, was held in Kabul on Sunday.
The woman, 34-year old Gayle Williams, a dual UK-South African national, was shot on Monday as she was walking alone to work in the western part of Kabul.
Williams was working with disabled Afghans for the UK registered charity 'SERVE' - Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprises - which describes itself as a Christian charity registered in Britain.
In a statement on its Web site, SERVE described Williams as a person who always loved the Afghans and was dedicated to serving those who are
disabled.
Williams' family members, including her mother and sister, and colleagues gathered at the British Cemetery in Kabul to attend her funeral.
SERVE's spokesperson Rina van der Ende, said that Williams herself made a decision earlier to be buried in Kabul, should anything happen to her.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the slaying, saying that she had been killed because she was in Afghanistan to teach Christianity.
Afghanistan is a conservative Islamic nation and has little tolerance for outside religious interference.
Proselytising is prohibited by law, and other Christian missionaries or charities have faced severe hostilities.
A spokeswoman for the group in Kabul denied that its workers were proselytising
The attack will add to a growing sense of insecurity in Kabul, which is now blanketed in police checkpoints.
Embassies, military bases and the UN are erecting cement wall barriers to guard against suicide bombings.
Kidnappings targeting wealthy Afghans have long been a problem in Kabul, but attacks against Westerners in the city and surrounding provinces have also increased recently.
In mid-August, Taliban militants killed three women working for the US aid group International Rescue Committee while they were driving in Logar, a province south of Kabul.
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کلام جسم گشت - The Word Became Flesh
In this program God's word is shared from the first chapter of the gospel of John and the first chapter of Letter to Colossians and the first chapter of Genesis. Also a beautiful testimony of a Luri man who gave his life to Christ and many other questions and answers.