Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: December 2017

Pressure and Peril: Afghan refugees and Europe in 2017

Thomas Ruttig •

The number of Afghan refugees arriving on Europe’s shores this year was significantly lower than in 2015 and 2016, but the arrivals have not stopped. In 2017, there were still a few thousand Afghans making the hazardous trip across the Mediterranean to the continent, and tens of thousands more continued to be on the move inside […]

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The King of North vs. the President

Thomas Ruttig •

The Hindu, 30 December 2017 A short quote of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about the fall-out between the Afghan government and Balkh governor Atta: The timing of the fallout with Mr. Noor as well as within the Jamiat party is crucial. “This could be part of a strategy for for the 2019 presidential […]

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Angst vor Abschiebung

Thomas Ruttig •

Niederösterreichische Nachrichten 51/17, 29 December 2017 The Austrian local newspaper carries an article about a young gay Afghan who fears to be deported to Afghanistan. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in the article, saying there is no guarantee the Afghan state will be able to protect the man if deported, and that one could also […]

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Zeugnis mit Kratzern

Thomas Ruttig •

Wiener Zeitung, 28 December 2017 The Vienna newspaper reports about Afghanistan’s education system in 2017. The author quotes from AAN’s dispatch on corruption in the school system: Für die Kabuler Denkfabrik “Afghanistan Analysts Network” ist der Bericht die “klarste und schonungsloseste Korruptionsbeurteilung in Afghanistans Bildungssektor bisher”.

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Cover of Afghan Info. Issue no 79, October 2016.

“The Rédactrice Says Farewell”: A goodbye to the Afghanistan Info (1980-2017)

Thomas Ruttig •

It is already December and time to look back at the year almost just passed. Before we come to the macro issues of Afghanistan’s political, security and socio-economic situation in 2017, we want to say “thank you” to Micheline Centlivres-Demont and Pierre Centlivres, and wish a “goodbye” to the Afghanistan Info, a bulletin of news […]

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Many bonded child laborers work in Takhar salt mine

AAN •

Pajhwok News Agency, 27 December 2017 The Kabul-based news agency draws attention to two widespread, but underreported social phenomena in Afghanistan: child and bonded labour.

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Taliban Strategy In Afghanistan: 2017 And Beyond

AAN •

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 24 December 2017 In this look at the Afghan Taleban’s strategy, there is a link to AAN’s recent paper on Taleban ideology by Anand Gopal and Alex Strick van Linschoten in the discussion “who they are”: While they are sometimes labeled nationalists, the Taliban are keen to brandish their Islamist credentials […]

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Ist Afghanistan das nächste Schlachtfeld des IS?

Thomas Ruttig •

Web.de, 23 December 2017 The news page of the German email provider published a summary on the IS activities in Afghanistan, based on interviews with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and with Nicole Birtsch, of the Berlin-based think-tank SWP.

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In Afghanistan bringen sich alte Warlords neu in Stellung

Thomas Ruttig •

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22 December 2017 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this report about the firing of Balkh provincial governor Atta by President Ghani, stemming from an earlier round of this conflict, saying that it is also about the competition for leadership in the Jamiat party: «Die Tatsache, dass Atta nun öffentlich […]

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The Soul of Herat’s Citadel Comes Home: Reflections on an exhibition of miniatures

Kate Clark •

A historic exhibition of reproductions of miniatures has opened in the Citadel in Herat where many of the pictures were painted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At that time, Herat was a centre of Islamic art and culture. In the decades that followed, as dynasties fell or moved, the miniatures were scattered, eventually ending […]

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First external AAN publication in Dari: Ehsan Qaane on Afghanistan and the International Criminal Court

Ehsan Qaane •

سیزده سال بعد از عضویت افغانستان در محکمه بین المللی جزایی: افغانستان در کجایی کار آن محکمه قرار دارد؟ “13 years after Afghanistan joined the International Criminal Court: Where does Afghanistan stand vis-à-vis the work of this court?” is the title of the Dari-language paper by AAN researcher Ehsan Qaane that was presented at “The Third […]

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[عطا محمد نور پس ازبرکناری اش از سوی رییس جمهور غنی]

AAN •

BBC Persian, 20 December 2017 See a video on Youtube of AAN’s Obaid Ali in an interview with the BBC Persian news of 29 Azar 1396 on the situation after the resignation – or firing – of Balkh provincial governor Atta Muhammad  Nur (his part starts at 8:50 of the file).

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