• the new Shia Family Law of Afghanistan has attracted criticism for including clauses that some analysts believe encourage spousal rape?

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Afghanistan

• Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, only the 13th such award since the Second World War?
• Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, attempting to save other injured soldiers?
• India's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban?
• Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan?
• Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan, is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War?
• Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan?
• U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan?
• cross stitches are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans, Middle East, Afghanistan, Colonial America and Victorian England?
• Gary O'Donnell is the first person in 26 years to be awarded a second George Medal, the last one posthumously for "immense bravery" in Afghanistan?
• Mark Donaldson became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, for his gallant actions under enemy fire in Afghanistan in September 2008?