Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: February 2020

Placating Ghor, For Now: 10-days protest pushed the government to respond

S Reza Kazemi •

Frustrated by the exclusion of their primary development needs from Afghanistan’s budget for the coming year, a growing number of residents in the neglected and isolated central province of Ghor brought the local administration to a standstill by staging a sit-in for around ten days (21-31 January 2020). They only agreed to end their demonstration […]

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Kabul Now: “My mother beats me every time I make a mistake,” says Nargis

AAN • Thomas Ruttig •

Kabul Now, 28 January 2020 A hard-wrenching story of violence against children and family traumatisation. – Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says violence against children is on the rise, and the International Bureau of Children’s Rights points out that the scale of violence against children is far beyond domestic violence: deprivation from education, beatings, rape, child labor […]

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Daily Telegraph: “If my mother doesn’t get drugs, she beats me”: the Afghan children forced to feed their parents addiction

AAN • Thomas Ruttig •

Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2020 Another story about intra-family violence against children, this time as the result of poverty and drug addiction, from Kabul and the border province of Nimruz. The province’s capital Zaranj has more than 10,000 addicts.  

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USIP: Youth Protest Movements in Afghanistan

AAN • Thomas Ruttig •

USIP, 1 February 2020 An interesting report about three of Afghanistan’s youth protest movements, ie case studies of Jombesh-e Tabasum (Tabassum movement) in 2015, Jombesh-e Roshanayi (Enlightenment movement) in 2016–17 and Jombesh-e Rashtakhez-e Taghir (Uprising for Change) in 2017. The authors – Srinjoy Bose (University of New South Wales), Nematullah Bizhan (Australian National University) and Niamatullah […]

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The Khans Of Bombay’s Hindi Film Industry – Analysis

AAN • Thomas Ruttig •

Eurasia Review, 1 February 2020 A 2012 AAN piece by Fabrizio Foschini is referenced in this article, looking at ‘Pathan’ actors and characters in Mumbai’s  film industry – saying that the “mother of all Pathan movies remains Kabuliwala (1961)”, after Tagore’s short story.

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