Afghanistan Analysts Network – Dari Pashto

Month: ثور / غويی ۱۳۹۱

How Tribal Are the Taliban?

Thomas Ruttig

Thomas Ruttig, in ’Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands’, Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews, eds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) and London, 2012. The book contains chapters about a broad spectrum of issues, both political and ethnographic, that go back to a seminar held at Stanford University in late 2009: James […]

نورې خپرونې / سایر انتشارات نور یی ولوله

Death of an Uruzgan journalist: Command Errors and Collateral Damage

Guests Kate Clark

An investigation into the fatal shooting of an Afghan journalist by a US soldier raises critical questions about the safety of local reporters working in the field, and the need for greater honesty by ISAF when operations go wrong, according to a new report by AAN’s senior analyst, Kate Clark. Omaid Khpulwak was killed at […]

ځانګړي راپورونه / گزارشهای ویژه نور یی ولوله

Legal Aid in Afghanistan: Contexts, Challenges and the Future

Guests Sarah Han

In this new briefing paper, lawyer and legal aid expert Sarah Han looks at the historical, legal and political context to the provision of legal aid and describes the efforts of the international community over the past five years to developing funding streams for the accused. The author commends the modest but significant improvements in […]

ځانګړي راپورونه / گزارشهای ویژه نور یی ولوله

The Road through Qatar: Chances for a political solution with the Taleban (not online)

Thomas Ruttig

Thomas Ruttig in: Orient (Berlin), II/2012 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the ‘long and winding road towards negotiations with the Taleban’, the US-Karzai controversy about who should have the lead in such contacts and the main hurdles that stand in the way of meaningful talks, in the light of the increasing disengagement of the West […]

نورې خپرونې / سایر انتشارات نور یی ولوله