Month: August 2025

The Daily Hustle: Building a business in Kabul one stitch at a time

Hamid Pakteen • Roxanna Shapour •

In Kabul’s Timur Shahi area, tailoring is serious business. Rows of shopfronts compete for customers. One marvels at how so many tailors, offering basically the same service, stay in business in such close proximity. But they do. Each tailor has his own loyal customers who have been with him for years, even generations. In this instalment […]

10 Aug 2025

“We have nowhere to go” – Afghan families forced out of Iran face poverty and destitution

Rukhshana Media, 8 August 2025 Stories told by Afghan forced returnees from Iran – some never lived in Afghanistan – from a park in Herat turned into a makeshift camp. The only help available in Herat is from local volunteers in the city, where people have mobilised to assist the new arrivals coming across the […]

8 Aug 2025

Afghanistan: Barriers and Enablers to Self-Employment for Women

ACAPS, 12 February 2025 This report by the analysis organisation ACAPS throws interesting light on the situation of female Afghan entrepreneurs that are caught between the Taleban policies banning women (if not completely segregated from men) from almost all spheres of social life and the urge to generate income, including by those who lost their […]

5 Aug 2025

Afghanische Geflüchtete: Pakistan plant neue Massenabschiebungen

Tageszeitung, 3 August 2025 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports Pakistan’s announcement to start the third phase of its deportations of Afghan refugees, now of the 1.4 million holders of Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, refugees registered both by Pakistan’s authorities and the UN Refugee Agency. It is the most extensive wave of deportations to date. The article […]

3 Aug 2025

Breaking the Cycle of Centuries-old Violence: A decline in blood feuds in Khost province?

Sharif Akram •

Blood feuds or revenge killings are closely connected to honour and shame, as seen through tribal customs and centuries-old traditions in Afghan society. For many decades, these feuds perpetuated cycles of violence, claimed countless lives and undermined the formal justice system. However, in recent decades, they seem to be in decline, as Afghan society experiences shifts […]

3 Aug 2025

After Key Report On Afghanistan, State Department Says Taliban Was Keeping Aid

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 2 August 2025 In this article about the final (quarterly) report of the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), now abolished, – that highlights Afghanistan corruption – AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: “If you followed those reports, you were clearly aware where it was going and […]

2 Aug 2025