Month: April 2020

Die Taliban, dein Freund und Helfer

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7 April 2020 AAN’s Fazl Muzhary is quoted in this text about the Taleban’s dual strategy, their governance (including a corona awareness campaign) and their stepped-up offensiv against the government troops (in German, behind a pay wall):

7 Apr 2020

Coronavirus forces Afghanistan’s child workers off the streets

Reuters, 7 April 2020 “Afghanistan’s child workers are forced to stay at home due to the COVID-19 lockdown, with families concerned about how they will earn money now” – a reportage by Stefanie Glinski.

7 Apr 2020

5 Days of Political Talks in Kabul; Does Arg Follow a Divide Strategy?

Reporterly, 6 April 2020 AAN’s Ali Adili is briefly quoted in this analysis of the Ghani-Abdullah row in Afghanistan: Ali Adeli [sic], an analyst in the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network, believes that the stability and partnership team led by Abdullah is working on a “delay strategy”.

6 Apr 2020

Topdara-stupan berättar om det buddistiska arvet

Jelena Bjelica •

SCA/SAK, 6 April 2020 Jelena Bjelica’s AAN report, The Largest Standing Stupa in Afghanistan: A short history of the Buddhist site at Topdara, has been translated (and shortened) into a version in Swedish.

6 Apr 2020

Afghanistans Friedensprozess am Scheideweg

Deutsche Welle, 25 March 2020 Quoted AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the intra-Afghan negotiations and Taleban structures: Jahrelang sei die Fragmentierung der Taliban von den USA und der afghanischen Regierung hochgespielt worden, so Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan-Experte und Mitbegründer  des Afghanistan Analysts Network. “Das war Teil ihrer psychologischen Kriegsführung.”  He also added, “Die Taliban ernten die Früchte der Uneinigkeit in Kabul”. […]

3 Apr 2020

Islamic State in Afghanistan: future spoiler?

Afghan Hindsight, 2 April 2020 This entry in Bill Foxley’s blog quotes AAN research: The Afghanistan Analysts Network has cautioned that many reports of ISKP fighters are inaccurate and warned against assuming that the existence of foreign fighters was automatic proof of an ISKP presence.[14]

2 Apr 2020

Blood in the Abode of Peace: The attack on Kabul’s Sikhs

Fabrizio Foschini •

At a time when Afghans face a looming pandemic and worsening conflict, one recent event has stood out: the attack on the Sikh gurdwara in the Old City of Kabul one week ago. It was an unprecedented, sectarian attack on a peaceful, non-Muslim religious minority. 26 people were killed and 11 wounded, men, women and one child. […]

1 Apr 2020