The Turbaned Traders: The Taliban take over the urban economy ...for those living in areas that had been ‘insurgent strongholds’, see this AAN report Finding Business Opportunity after Conflict: Shopkeepers, civil servants and farmers in Andar district by Sabawoon Samim.... 14 Oct 2025 Sharif Akram • Economy, Development, Environment
Living a Mullah’s Life (2): The evolution of Islamic knowledge among village clerics ...these were in Ghazni’s Andar district – one founded in the 1880s by a prominent religious leader, Mullah Mushk-e Alam, in Shilgar[5]Senzil K Nawid, Religious Response to Social Change in... 20 Jul 2025 Sharif Akram • Political Landscape
Taliban Narratives (1) Books: “Who we are and why we fought” ...indistinguishable. Those who called themselves the leaders of the nation only showcased the good side while hiding resentments from the public. We heard the voices of people villages in Andar... 16 Mar 2025 Sharif Akram • Context and Culture
After the Deluge: Personal accounts of rain and floods in Zurmat district ...waters of several rivers pass through Zurmat – from Kotal-e Tirah and the mountains around Gardez city on to Band-e Sardeh, a lake in the eastern part of Andar district... 12 May 2024 Sayed Asadullah Sadat • Economy, Development, Environment
Sending Money Home: The impact of remittances on workers, families and villages ...there is, with their poorer neighbours falling even further behind. Similarly, in times of natural disasters such as floods, it is again remittance money that assists households. When Andar district... 25 Jan 2024 Sabawoon Samim • Migration
What We Wrote, What You Read in 2023: Daily struggles, edicts and orders, falcons flying high ...economy and politics were balanced by reports that zeroed in on the local, sometimes hyper-local level: how shopkeepers, civil servants and farmers in the formerly heavily contested Andar district have found... 11 Jan 2024 Kate Clark • Context and Culture
Survival and Stagnation: The State of the Afghan economy ...number of staff given for each ministry at the accountability sessions (a reasonable … Continue reading During the accountability sessions, acting minister Dr Qalandar Ebad said that foreign funding represented just... 7 Nov 2023 Kate Clark • Economy, Development, Environment
Finding Business Opportunity after Conflict: Shopkeepers, civil servants and farmers in Andar district ...at how in Andar, at least, the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has brought security and economic and political dividends. Andar district in Ghazni province. Map by... 30 Oct 2023 Sabawoon Samim • Economy, Development, Environment
Policing Public Morality: Debates on promoting virtue and preventing vice in the Taleban’s second Emirate ...visited Andar district in Ghazni province and Muta Khan district in Paktika province, he found the Taleban had banned music in Andar and repeatedly warned the district’s residents that violators... 15 Jun 2022 Sabawoon Samim • Rights and Freedoms
Who Gets to Go to School? (3): Are Taleban attitudes starting to change from within? ...go to the mosque after they turn nine [years old]. Similarly, in the Pashtun-dominated Andar district of Ghazni province, girls’ education is non-existent due to a similarly hostile attitude towards... 7 Feb 2022 Sabawoon Samim • Rights and Freedoms
Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg: Afghanistan’s economic distress post-15 August ...under Taleban control, we found, as the report on Andar in Ghazni put it, the Taleban “seriously and actively tax[ing] all economic and business activities.” Residents reported the Taleban taxing... 11 Nov 2021 Kate Clark • Economy, Development, Environment
What now for the Taleban and Narcotics? A case study on cannabis ...United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has reported. On that same trip, the author travelled to four districts in Ghazni province, Andar, Giro, Gilan and Nawa (see map below)... 27 Oct 2021 Fazl Rahman Muzhary • Economy, Development, Environment
