Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: September 2014

Rebuild Afghanistan’s Giant Buddhas? Foot-Shaped Pillars Give Legs to Debate

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Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2014 A platform has been build to protect visitors of the site of the destroyed giant buddha statues in Bamian – that awkwardly look like the statues’ feet. This had brought UNESCO to the scene and rekindled the debate about whether to rebuild the statues (which would be difficult in […]

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Does the Afghan poll deal mean a shaky political foundation?

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AFP, 22 September 2014 The news agency quotes from an AAN dispatch: “‘We do not know if a government of national unity was merited by what happened at the polls,’ analyst Kate Clark said in a briefing paper on Monday for the Afghan Analysts Network. ‘This political transition… cannot be called democratic, as it actually […]

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Afghan Power-Sharing Deal Ends Election Impasse

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Voice of America, 23 September 2014 Extensive quotes of AAN’s Kate Clark in this article after Ashraf Ghani was named new Afghan president: Kate Clark of Afghanistan Analysts Network is a long-term observer of the Afghan affairs. She is skeptical about Ghani’s claims the deal will ensure an effective governance and restore lasting peace to […]

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Trónok harca afgán módra

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Népszabadság (Budapest), 23 September 2014 In this article by the Hungarian daily about the outcome of the Afghan presidential election and the national unity government deal, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: Thomas Ruttig, a kabuli székhelyű Afghan [sic] Analysts Network (AAN) kutatóintézet szakértője szerint, bár a hierarchia szerint a CEO az elnöknek tartozik elszámolással, közel […]

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Magtdeling giver håb for Afghanistans sikkerhed

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Information (Denmark), 23 September 2014 In this article about Ghani having been named new Afghan president, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the democratic, or not so, content of that particular way of handing over power: Thomas Ruttig, stifter af Afghan Analysts Network i hovedstaden Kabul, er enig i kritikken. »Afghanistan har besluttet sig for […]

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Political Crisis Passes, But Afghan Defections Abroad Continue

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Global Post/NBC, 23 September 2014 This article with its somewhat optimistic headline (in the first part) starts with a report about another defection abroad of Afghan army officers, before it comes to the election aftermath and also quotes Kate Clark from her latest AAN dispatch: “In the end, the deal to form a successor administration […]

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Wahlergebnis ohne Zahlen: Afghanistan merkwürdige Präsidentenwahl

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Tageszeitung, 22 September 2014 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on “Afghanistan’s remarkable presidential election”. “Afghanistan’s politicians haven proven that they have fantasy: Probably for the first time in the history of elections, they have come to a result but not one they base on concrete percentage figures. … Despite, or because of, obvious manipulations, […]

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Alle Widersprüche unter den Teppich gekehrt (Not online yet)

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Tageszeitung, 22 September 2014 Guest article (in German) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily, summarising the election result (without figures), the deal about the government of national unity (GNU) and the sober atmosphere in which it was signed. The article concludes that these are symptoms of Afghanistan’s weak democracy, and that the reform plans […]

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Will Afghanistan’s power sharing deal work?

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al-Jazeera, 22 September 2014 An audio of a (remote) round table on the situation after Ghani’s declaration of president: Will this deal hold? And will it lead to stability in Afghanistan? Panelists: Helena Malikyar – historian and commentator on Afghan issues; Thomas Ruttig – co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (unfortunately the skype connection broke down in my second […]

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Doubts cloud sense of relief as new Afghan government takes shape

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Reuters, 22 September 2014 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on chances of governments of national unity in Afghanistan and elsewhere here: Thomas Ruttig, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said other countries’ experience with unity governments suggested they were only temporary fixes for entrenched power struggles. Those that do work tend to be in countries with strong […]

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Afghan poll results delayed to ‘hide scale of ballot rigging’

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The Telegraph and The Australian, 22 September 2014 Also, the British and the Australian dailies quotes from Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch: Kate Clark of the Afghan Analysts Network agreed that the transition from President Karzai’s administration to a new government had not been achieved by the ballot box. “It actually avoided democratic means to determine who […]

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