Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: January 2014

Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis

AAN •

New York Times, 4 January 2014 "Afghan hospitals like Bost, in the capital of war-torn Helmand Province, have been registering significant increases in severe malnutrition among children" writes Rod Nordland, reporting on the often over-looked socio-economic side of things in Afghanistan. "Countrywide, such cases have increased by 50 percent or more compared with 2012, according to […]

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The neglect of Kabul’s disabled war veterans

AAN Team •

al-Jazeera, 4 January 2014 An article co-authored by AAN’s Obaid Ali and former AAN colleague Ali Latifi describing the awful condition in which many of Afghanistan’s hundreds of thousands of disabled (many of them as a result of the war) have to live.

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From Alexander the Great to Ahmad Shah Massud: A social history of the pakol

Fabrizio Foschini •

The flat, woollen, rolled-up hat called a pakol is nowadays one of the undisputed symbols of Afghanistan. But how such a humble garment, stemming from the remotest corners of the Hindu Kush mountains, made it to international appreciation on par with lavish silky chapans and majestic four-meter-long lungis, remains somewhat of a mystery. AAN’s Fabrizio […]

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2014 – A year to fight the fear in Afghanistan

AAN Team •

BBC, 1 January 2014 In her year opener looking ahead at the Afghan 2014, the BBC’s Lyse Doucet quotes a tweet by AAN’s Borhan Osman: “Let’s celebrate 2014 with a spirit of #Nofear #Nophobia.” And adds herself: “Even in a country where every year has been called “critical,” this one matters. Most foreign troops will pull out […]

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A happy and peaceful new year!

AAN Team •

Dear readers, here at AAN, we would like to wish you a happy new year. For Afghanistan, 2014 is a year of many expectations but also anxieties. May it be a year of successful transition, harmonious cooperation and real peace negotiations. We will be here to accompany you. The AAN team

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