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  • Video Production Our camera crew, backed by a team of editors and producers, are capable of working under pressure in any environment to produce material in a wide-range of styles and formats. We can set you up with highly experienced camera crews ready to go with their own equipment and feeding facilities for spot-news, features, edited TV packages, press conferences or just a single interview sent to your news room through FTP or quick feeding points if required. We can be your camera-stringer in Afghanistan, a country rarely off the main headlines. Whether you need two-camera shoots, B-roll, man on the street, archive footage, studio or field lighting, landscape images and establishing shots, or moving pictures from the thick of the action, our team can deliver with style and impact.

    We use Sony PAL PD 170 and Sony HD cameras for shooting and Adobe Premier 2.0 and Final Cut Pro for editing but can switch to other systems should your domain require.
  • Photography With local knowledge, our photographers are able to offer a deeper perspective on Afghanistan and yet still produce work to the standards required by the global media – which means we understand the paramount importance of objectivity and honesty in the way we depict events. From spot news to features and commercial pictures our network of talented photographers operating across the country are capable of capturing and filing all angles of the story 24-hours a day. With years of experience documenting Afghanistan's breathtaking landscape, its people and the tumultuous events that tie them together, our photograpers are equipped and trained in using the latest technology to produce images that rival their international counterparts.
  • Reporting Our team of Afghan reporters are native Dari and Pashtu speakers but also proficient in English with the writing skills needed to provide ready-for-print news stories, features and analysis tailored to the needs of your publication. We are all fully-trained and capable journalists, for whom accuracy, balance, responsible sourcing and deadlines are as important as they are for you. Our contacts books are crammed with newsmakers, officials and colorful personalities across Afghanistan, and we can also hook you up with Kabul-based freelance journalists or one of our own staff to string for you on a regular basis. We could also conduct interviews on your behalf, provide color from hostile scenes and contribute quotes, should you need them for your copy.
  • Translation / Fixing / Facilitating Reporting from Afghanistan, gripped as it is in violence and entangled in cultural complexities, can be quite a challenge. A helping hand from Kabul Pressistan will ensure your trip here is successful. Contact us before you set off to get the full lay of the land. Working with Kabul Pressistan during your stay in Afghanistan, you'll be notified about major government announcements that are usually in local languages and can easily slip under the radar of foreign correspondents. We'll alert you to any media advisories and give regular tips-off about incident in any part of the country. Read more
  • Monitoring / Research / Survey For clients seeking a customized solution to researching, studying, and analyzing Afghanistan-related issues -- be it human resources, culture, religion, conflict and the insurgency -- Kabul Pressistan is the answer. Our team of local researchers can get to the heart of the topic, returning comprehensive results tailored for your project, mission or business.

    The Kabul Pressistan Monitoring Service is the best way to keep abreast of the latest trends in Afghan politics, current affairs, the insurgency and counter-insurgency. Our service includes constant monitoring of local politics, government and insurgent groups for mention of any foreign organization -- diplomatic missions, military missions, corporations and brand names – analysied and packaged for each client.

    If you require a more objective look at what the people of Afghanistan are thinking, we offer complete accurate, reliable and fully independent opionion polls and surveys on any issue, in all cities and regions of the country. We can operate to tight deadlines, delivering full statistical breakdowns from broad samples of the population or even reliable focus groups. We can take your questions to representative and clearly documented groups of any size.     Read more

 Afghanistan News Calendar (2010)

Sunday, March 21
Nowruz or Afghanistan's solar-based Zoroastrian new year and one of the biggest annual festivals during which tens of thousands of people from across the country travel to the northern Mazar-i-Sharif city to celebrate the event in the Hazrat Ali shrine

 

Monday, March 22
National Education Day. The event is celebrated by a gathering of school students and teachers in Kabul and other cities. As a tradition, the head of the state rings the bell marking the first day of the school after annual winter vacations

 

Wednesday, April 28
Victory over the last Communist regime by the anti-Soviets resistance known as "mujahedin". The event is celebrated by military parades and official speeches in capital Kabul and other major cities

 

Sunday, May 2
Peace Jirga: a traditional tribal conference known as "jirga" to be held in Kabul to discuss ways of reaching peace with the Taliban and other insurgents. The event is the biggest step in government efforts to reconcile with the Taliban

 

Wednesday, May 12
President Hamid Karzai is scheduled to meet President Barack Obama in the White House, after he was invited to visit Washington during Obama's surprise trip to Kabul in late March

 

First half of June
Kabul Conference: a follow up to the "International Conference on Afghanistan" held in London this spring, the Kabul Conference will bring representatives of over 60 countries and organizations to discuss the future of Afghanistan including a possible handing over of security responsibilities from foreign troops to Afghan security forces

 

Thursday, August 19
Afghanistan Independence Day. The event, marking Afghanistan's independence from the Great Britain in 1919 is celebrated by military parades, official speeches and late night street parties in Kabul and other major cities.

 

Friday-Saturday-Sunday, August 10-11-12
Eidul Fitr, the biggest Islamic festival marking the end of Ramadan or the holy month of fasting. Afghans wear new dresses, visit relatives and prepare special foods and sweets during the Eid festivity

 

Tuesday, September 21
Afghans vote in the second post-Taliban parliamentary elections. The vote originally planned for spring was delayed due to security and financial problems

 

Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, November 16-17-18
Eid al-Adha or festival of "Sacrifice", like Eidul Fitr is an important Islamic holiday. Rich Afghans slaughter an animals (goat, sheep, cow or camel) in line with Islamic traditions


Friday, December 17
Ashura or the aniversary of Hazart Hussain the grand son of Prophet Mohammad "martyrdom". Mostly Shiiats, Muslims in Afghanistan and across the Islamic world mourns the day with ritual flagellation by small blades attached to chains

 

 

 

News Alerts & Tips

Interior ministry blames some of the killing of the protesters on the guards of the foreign military bases The interior ministry in a statement blames the killing of some of the protesters in today's anti-US riots on the guards of the foreign military bases. Below are a near word-by-word translation of some parts of the official interior ministry statement: "The interior ministry will investigate the killing of some of our countrymen who died by scattered firing of the guards of the foreign military bases ... More

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Afghanistan News Calendar
In the Afghanistan news calendar many events and incidents are unexpected such as Taliban suicide bombings, counterinsurgency operations that often lead to scores of civilian deaths and political developments that make big headlines.

But some events that are likely to make news are known to happen. Click here for a news calendar
Chronology of major events in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Afghanistan is hardly off the world's headlines since the United States invaded it to unseat the Taliban from power as a punishment for sheltering Al-Qaeda leaders whom Washington accused of carrying out the 9/11 attacks on its cities.

Since then an international force currently numbering more than 150,000 troops are stationed in the country fighting an insurgency being waged by the remnants of the Taliban regime. The Chronology