The stoning of a woman and the attack at a weekend vacation spot have woken up Afghanistan's young but a pro-peace protest movement is only at its very beginnings.
On a cold, windy day in December 2009, a school building in the isolated Malakand region of northwestern NWFP (today renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was being guarded round-the-clock by soldiers. All
Taliban threats to disrupt the polls notwithstanding, voting for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections concluded on 18 September with less violence than anticipated. Though there were over 300 reports of
