Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: April 2015

Meeting of women activists in Khost, 2014. Photo: Pajhwok.

Four next public events with AAN participation

Thomas Ruttig •

There are four public events in the next two weeks with AAN participation, in Copenhagen (Denmark), Heidelberg and Berlin (both Germany), Basle (Switzerland).   22 April 2015, 8pm at Heidelberg Theatre Podium discussion (in German), “Peace?! Afghanistan after the ISAF mission“ Participants: • Thomas Ruttig, Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network; • Ahmad Nasir Formuli […]

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Tajik gentlemen discussing in Dushanbe. Photo: Thomas Ruttig

‘Peace-for-Power’ versus Participatory Solutions: Lessons of Tajikistan’s civil war – a book review

Arne C Seifert •

In a highly relevant 2013 book, Central Asia analysts Kirill Nourzhanov and Christian Bleuer (*) have looked at social relations and the political system in Tajikistan at the end of the 1990s civil war in this Central Asian neighbour of Afghanistan. Our guest author Arne C. Seifert (**) has read the book and argues that […]

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Islamisten in Afghanistan Zwischen Angst und Anziehung

AAN •

FAZ, 13 April 2015 In the leading German daily Friederike Böge discusses the pro and cons of the alleged IS spread in Afghanistan, quoting from an AAN dispatch on the – meanwhile killed – deputy IS governor for ‘Khorasan’: Nach einem Bericht der Denkfabrik „Afghanistan Analysts Network“ lag das an der schwachen Stellung seines Stammes […]

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Afghanistan vows action after ISIS-style beheading video

AAN •

AFP/Daily Star, 12 April 2015 After an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan video purportedly showing the IS-style beheading of a former Afghan soldier was published online and reports of a local IMU commander pledging support to the Islamic State, AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted with comments on the IMU-Taleban-IS relationship: The video marks something of a departure […]

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Library in Kabul. Photo: Qayoom Suroush

Reading in Kabul: The state of Afghan libraries

Qayoom Suroush •

With Afghanistan’s educated class growing rapidly over the past decade while education resources remain scarce, there is an increasing need for a functioning public library system, AAN’s Qayoom Suroush argues. However, the only public library of Afghanistan’s capital – at the same time standing in for a non-existent national library – is not even close […]

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Afghanistan Vows Action Against Uzbek Insurgents After IS-Style Beheading Video

AAN •

Outlook India, 8 April 2015 The renowned Indian magazine, scrutinising an alleged pro-IS turn of the IMU and a video published by the organisation, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman: The video marks something of a departure for IMU, said Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. “It used to operate in coordination […]

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Brutalt dåd lyfter afghanska problem

AAN •

Helsingborgs Dagblad, 7 April 2015 The Swedish daily reports about the follow-up to the killing of the young woman, Farkhunda, in Kabul and quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert: Mordet har också satt strålkastaren på ett korrupt rättssystem samtidigt som det väcker frågor om vad ett islamiskt samhälle egentligen innebär, enligt Martine van Bijlert på Afghanistan […]

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Members of the anti-Taleban uprising in Alasai - photo by Obaid Ali

Fire in the Pashai Hills: A two-district case study from Kapisa

Obaid Ali •

The Taleban are making further headway towards Kabul. In Kapisa province, 80 kilometers northeast of the capital, they have already established an administrative system governing one of the districts, Alasai. An uprising staged against them last summer by local Jamiati commanders failed,  largely due to lack of support from government forces. At the same time, […]

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Islamic State’s apparent expansion may be deceptive

AAN •

Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2015 Another quote of AAN’s Borhan Osman on IS in Afghanistan/Pakistan: Islamic State’s “declaration of a move into ‘Khorasan’ may have been over-hasty,” Borhan Osman of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research group, wrote in a recent commentary. “Afghanistan and Pakistan are a long way from the group’s heartland […]

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