Information on these specific subjects could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB. However, please consult the text and attachment of Response to Information Request AFG19846.E of 22 February 1995 for brief information on Kabul's civilian police.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Afghanistan: A Country Study. 1986.

Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited. 1987. Edited by Rosanne Klass.

Amnesty International. August 1991. Afghanistan: Unfair Trials by Special Tribunals.

_____. November 1986. Afghanistan: Torture of Political Prisoners.

Asia Watch. 23 February 1991. Afghanistan: The Forgotten War: Human Rights Abuses and Violations of the Laws of War Since the Soviet Withdrawal.

British Refugee Council. n.d. Nick van Hear. The Afghan Tragedy.

Human Concern International. 1990. Jane Murphy Thomas. Afghanistan: A Forgotten War.

International League for Human Rights. 1994. Collective Responsibility in the New Afghan War.

International Peace Academy. 1992. William Maley and Fazel Haq Saikal. Political Order in Post-Communist Afghanistan.

Kafai, Abdolhossein Majid. June 1984. Country Report on Afghanistan.

Laber, Jeri and Barnett R. Rubin. 1988. A Nation is Dying.

News from Asia Watch. 1991 to present.

Office of Asylum Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S.A. September 1994. Afghanistan: Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions.

The Refugee Policy Group. December 1991. Afghanistan: Trends and Prospects for Refugee Repatriation.

U.S. Committee for Refugees. December 1992. Hiram A. Ruiz. Left Out in the Cold: The Perilous Homecoming of Afghan Refugees.

_____. January 1985. Allen K. Jones. Afghan Refugees: Five Years Later.

World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Penal Systems. 1989.

On-line search of media sources.