Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: June 2013

Safe as Houses?

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Afghanistan Today, 6 June 2013 Safe houses and shelters are a life-saving resource for many Afghan women who have run away from violence or have been disowned by their families. But such sanctuaries as the House of Hope in Mazar-e Sharif can lose their funding after 2014 if the government does not step in to […]

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Iran executions anger Afghan families

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al-Jazeera, 6 June 2013 Dozens of Afghans have been executed in recent months across the border in Iran, mostly for drug related offences, writes Bettany Matta. She looks into some individual cases, and also reports that the Taleban claim that they had taken up the issue in their recent meeting in Tehran: ‘We mentioned all […]

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Guest Blog: A Dangerous Case for Intervention: A response to the CNAS report on Afghanistan

Gary Owen •

The US-based Think Tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has released a report about the current political and security situation in Afghanistan and also looks at the future of US military involvement there after 2014 Afghanistan by some prominent authors, led by the previous ISAF commander General John R. Allen. It would be […]

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What Sgt. Bales’ Guilty Plea Means for Afghanistan And The United States (audio)

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Kouw.org, 5 june 2013 Patricia Murphy reports live from the trial, and Ross Reynolds interviews Larry Goodson, South Asian Specialist at the US Army War College; plus Kate Clark, a senior analyst with the Afghanistan analysts network, and President Hamid Karzai’s brother Mahmood.

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Landays

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Poetry Foundation (no date) Read a fascinating article about one of the most popular Pashtun literary forms, the landay, in its 22 syllables a kind of Afghan haiku – and about them into picking up current events.

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Of Facts And Fables In Afghanistan

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 June 2013 Bashir Ahmad Gwakh teels the story how the air was let out of some over-hyped popular books about Afghanistan.

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Spring Offensive 2: Civilian casualties

Kate Clark •

At least fifteen children have been killed in the war in Afghanistan in the last 36 hours. All were ‘collateral damage’ from insurgent attacks – victims of two IEDs in Laghman and Farah and a suicide bomber’s blast in Paktia. The surge in the insurgency this year has been intense and civilians, generally, are being […]

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Afghan reintegration scheme in the spotlight

AAN Team •

IRIN, 4 June 2013 In an article looking at the success (or absence of) of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program (APRP), AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: ‘Reintegration offers money or other material incentives, and this is not the main – or sole – motive of many insurgents. I had the feeling that […]

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The Attack on the ICRC and the Changing Conflict in Afghanistan

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Political Violence @ a Glance (blog), 4 June 2013 This blog links to Claudio Franco’s AAN blog about ‘the changing Taleban DNA’ and Kate Clark’s AAN blog on the attack on the ICRC.

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Police: Suicide bomber kills 10 in Afghan market

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ABC/AP, 3 June 2013 This report, on the killing of 10 schoolchildren by an IED planted by insurgents, refers to Thomas Ruttig’s AAN blog on the insurgents’ spring offensive: ‘”The level of violence this year is the highest it has been since the war started in 2001,” said Thomas Ruttig of the Afghan Analysts Network […]

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President Karzai’s Visit To India: Setting The Policy Markers For Post-2014 Afghanistan

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Eurasia Review, 3 June 2013 This analysis by Shanthie D’Souza quotes from Thomas Ruttig’s AAN blog ‘Trouble at the Goshta Gate: New tensions and old wounds along the Durand Line’.

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After the ‘operational pause’: How big is the insurgents’ 2013 spring offensive?

Thomas Ruttig •

With two high-profile attacks in Kabul and one in Jalalabad in the two last weeks, Afghanistan’s insurgents seem to have made true on their promise of a ‘monumental’ spring offensive. In terms of propaganda, the three attacks were successful: the media in Afghanistan and abroad gave the incidents wide coverage. AAN Co-Director Thomas Ruttig has […]

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