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...raise the minimum age for girls to 14, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of 15 for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated...
...first faint sliver of the new moon over Afghanistan Saturday will signal the onset of Ramadan, but this year the holy month may be a time both of fasting and fierce fighting. The Taliban negotiated away their last stronghold Friday, Mullah Omar reportedly handing the city over to two Pashtun warlords and heading for the hills. Thousands of Taliban fighters, many of them foreign volunteers, remained under siege at Kunduz in the north, with the Northern Alliance threatening to launch a bloody assault by nightfall Friday if they fail to surrender. The era of Taliban power is plainly over...
...Post believe the Alliance is getting an opportunity to redeem its recent bad rap from the media. Military realities have made it a central cog of the U.S. war effort, the paper argues, and stepped up air support has raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan cannot and has not offered because of domestic political constraints." The danger, of course, is de facto partition of Afghanistan, "a prospect no Afghan...
...strategic linchpin of Northern Afghanistan. Military strategists consider the capture of the city essential - both to prove the battle-worthiness of the Northern Alliance and also for the ultimate defeat of the Taliban. The capture of the city has also been deemed a necessary victory before the onset of Ramadan and winter...
...Even if the Northern Alliance manages to cast aside doubts over its fighting ability and seizes Mazar-i-Sharif before the onset of winter impedes the prospects for ground warfare, the U.S. will have to do more of the heavy lifting itself in the campaign to defeat the Taliban. With Washington having been given the nod by Moscow, U.S. personnel are currently scouting airfields in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, not only as logistical bases for long-term resupply efforts in an expanded Northern Alliance-controlled slice of northern Afghanistan, but also as potential staging areas for a more substantial commitment...