Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: September 2012

Filling the Power Ministries: Biographies of the four candidates

Kate Clark •

Parliament was about to start scrutinising President Karzai’s nominations for three of the most powerful positions in government, plus one less significant ministry yesterday (Tuesday). But the nominees did not make into the Wolesi Jirga because the MPs demanded that they must be accompanied by either the President or one of his deputies in person.(1) […]

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A Pointless Blacklisting

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New York Times, 12 September 2012 An opinion piece of our friends and colleagues Alex Strick and Felix Kuehn about the US declaring the Haqqani network terrorists. They are more on the ‘con’ than on the ‘pro’ side.

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The ‘Other Guantanamo’ (3): Bagram and the Struggle for Sovereignty

Kate Clark •

Bagram Detention Centre has been officially transferred to Afghan control today, with the fundamental question of sovereignty – who has the right to arrest and detain Afghans on Afghan soil – still not resolved. The US insists it still has the right; the government says this is illegal. On Saturday (8 September 2012), President Karzai, […]

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Records Missing on Afghan Army Fuel Costs

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New York Times, 10 September 2012 It is about 475 million USD, by the way. And now imagine what happens if an NGO cannot account for 0.001 per cent of it…

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Murder spotlights Pakistan’s ‘heroin kingpin’

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Reuters, 5 September 2012 A fascinating story about a key Baluch drugs smuggler, his alleged links to Pakistani intelligence and – of course – to the Afghan conflict.

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Prevalence of malnutrition in southern Afghanistan ‘shocking’

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Guardian, 4 September 2012 Emma Graham-Harrison looks beyond the military realm: ‘Around a third of young children in southern Afghanistan are acutely malnourished, with a level of deprivation similar to that found in famine zones, a government survey has found, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into […]

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AAN Reportage (2): The Andar Uprising – Has the Tide Already Turned?

Emal Habib •

In the spring of 2012, the Taleban lost control of substantial parts of one of their strongholds, Andar district in Ghazni. The government and national and international media called it a popular uprising. In Part 1 of AAN’s special reportage on the events of Andar, guest blogger and local journalist, Emal Habib(*) questioned this narrative. […]

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AAN In The Media – September 2012

AAN Team •

The Tricky Business Of Reintegrating The Taliban  NPR, 28 September 2012 In an attempt to put down the insurgency in Afghanistan, the international community has spent millions to try to reintegrate former Taliban fighters and other militants back into society. So how well has it worked? Critics like Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network […]

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