Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: December 2014

A “Pending Issue”: Pakistani Balochs seeking shelter in Afghanistan

Monica Bernabe •

While millions of Afghans have fled to Pakistan over the past four decades, now, Pakistanis are flocking to Afghanistan. There are not only those who flee Pakistani military operations in Waziristan, though, but also Pakistani Balochs who say that they flee from repression by the Pakistani government, linked to latest Baloch insurgency activities. In Afghanistan, […]

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AAN’s Kate Clark on closure of Bagram Detention Facility in Afghanistan, and the fate of the detainees.

Kate Clark •

In conversation with AAN’s country director Kate Clark on closure of the Bagram Detention Facility in Afghanistan, and what will be the fate of the detainees?

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Kommentar Nato-Abzug aus Afghanistan: Müdigkeit auf allen Seiten

Thomas Ruttig •

tageszeitung, 29 December 2014 Op-ed comment by AAN’sThomas Ruttig on the occasion of the end of the ISAF mission: The end of ISAF leaved the Afghans a series of problems, some new, some exacerbated versions of old ones: among them the economic crisis that emerges now, with the ISAF-induced growth collapsing, and the continuing war […]

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Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan

AAN •

Spiegel, 28 December 2014 Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists, called JPEL. […] The documents suggest that sometimes […]

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“Green Is Happiness, Green Is Peace”: Gardening Afghanistan, from Babur to Bost hospital

Lalage Snow •

A garden for a king who loved the flower covered Kabul foothills so much he wanted to be buried there, a garden for checkpoint soldiers (where once a queen allegedly had tea under an apricot tree), one for hospital patients to heal in and one for the children of a poor farmer. In the midst […]

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NATO troops end one Afghanistan mission, start another / Das Ende der langen ISAF-Mission

Thomas Ruttig •

Deutsche Welle, 27 December 2014 German international radio, in its year-ender, quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “The ISAF mission hasn’t solved the main problem in Afghanistan,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the “Afghan Analyst Network” based in Kabul and Berlin. “The war is not over yet, dismantling the Taliban came to nothing, insurgences have […]

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Thomas Ruttig on 2014 elections, Democracy and Political Transitions in Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig •

In conversation with one of the co-founders of AAN Thomas Ruttig on 2014 elections, democracy and governance in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistans ungewisse Zukunft

Thomas Ruttig •

Schwäbische Zeitung, 24 December 2014 Op-ed by AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig in this southern German daily, about the 2015 prospects for Afghanistan: The optimism after the establishment of the national unity government starts fading, with a dangerous economic crisis looming and developmental gains eaten up by the security situation that is not improving.

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Merry Christmas!

AAN Team •

Here at AAN, we’d like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas! May your holidays, in Afghanistan as well as abroad, be peaceful. And for those who remain in Kabul and wish to celebrate in style: as every year, fancy trees  are back again and sold, including decoration, on Flower Street in Shar-e Naw. Many […]

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Afghanistan’s Still-Broken Government

AAN •

The American Conservative, 23 December 2014 Reporting, among other things, about Secretary Kerry’s role in brokering the government of national unity, the author says: “For a deeper dive into the details, see the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network’s take.)” The longer sequences from Martine van Bijlert’s dispatch follow: According to Martine van Bijlert at AAN, “Ghani and Abdullah […]

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