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Ten Years After – or: My Former Cleaner’s Beard

Ten years ago today, the first bombs were dropped over Afghanistan. Most Kabulis welcomed them and even applauded when houses of certain Taleban ‘guests’ were hit. They were really tired of living as international pariahs and under a leader who’s face was unknown and who only recommended prayer to overcome social problems, leaving the real […]

7 Oct 2011 Thomas Ruttig • War and Peace

The slow winding down of the Parliamentary crisis

Over the last few days the number of MPs attending the plenary session has been slowly growing, while the Law Support Coalition has struggled to maintain coherence. Individual members are being peeled off, while even those determined to make a stand are questioning whether they should remain outside the session. A compromise seems to be […]

6 Oct 2011 Gran Hewad • Martine van Bijlert • Political Landscape

Women’s Rights after 2001: Progress, but much of it on paper only

Ten years ago on 7 October, the first US bombs fell on Afghanistan – the ouverture to the US-led international intervention on Afghanistan. Thomas Ruttig, an AAN Senior Analyst, interviewed AIHRC commissioner Dr Soraya Rahim Sobhrang* to get her view on the balance of this intervention, with a particular focus on women’s rights. AAN: When […]

5 Oct 2011 Thomas Ruttig • Rights and Freedoms

The government’s new peace strategy: Who to talk to?

After the Rabbani assassination, the Afghan government has made it clear that it intends to revise its peace strategy. It has however been very short on the details of what this might look like, other than that it needs to revolve around ‘talking to Pakistan’. The change comes in the midst of deteriorating relations with […]

4 Oct 2011 Martine van Bijlert • War and Peace

Agreement on Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India – October 2011

The copy of the agreement can be found here.  

4 Oct 2011 admin • International documents on Afghanistan

3 October 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo discusses the current situation in Afghanistan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland

Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland, AAN’s Sari Kouvo discussed the current situation in Afghanistan with represenatives of Finnish ministries and civil society.

3 Oct 2011 AAN • admin • Events

2 October 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo discusses gender, conflict and Afghanistan and KATU’s Security Seminar in Helsinki, Finland

AAN’s Sari Kouvo held a seminar about gender and human security at the annual security seminar of the Civil Society Conflict Prevention Network in Finland. The aim of the seminar was to challenge the state-centered security paradigm through a focus on human security. Other speakers included Finland’s Minister of Development, Heidi Hautala, and Minister of […]

2 Oct 2011 AAN • admin • Events

Pashto Women’s Poetry – A Mirror of their Social Status?

“My love will gather us both together on the day of resurrection Brutes have placed stones between us in this world.” – On Friday, 16 September, the Mirman Baheer Association, a Pashtun women’s socio-cultural network, met in Kabul.* It was the third gathering of Pashto women poets by the Association and it brought together more […]

30 Sep 2011 Naheed Esar Malikzay • Rights and Freedoms

Death of Rabbani (4): Former Taleban Director of Ariana Airlines was the key go-between

Details of the identities of two of the men involved in the plot to kill former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, have been given to AAN by a person close to the Afghan government. These fresh details ultimately came from Rahmatullah Wahidyar, the member of the High Peace Council who was the conduit for the killer to […]

26 Sep 2011 Kate Clark • War and Peace

The Death of Rabbani (3): Emerging details

Details about the assassination of Burhannudin Rabbani are trickling in, raising many questions. It is still unclear whether this was a Taleban authorised hit, a Taleban ‘rogue operation’ or the work of another group. At the funeral, President Karzai said ‘the blood of the martyr and other martyrs of freedom requires us to continue our […]

25 Sep 2011 Kate Clark • War and Peace