Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Sudhansu Verma

‘Windfalls of war’: Companies with spotty records making billions off Afghanistan

AAN •

Fox News, 22 February 2014 "So who's getting rich off the war?", asks the right-wing US network and answers: "The biggest American benefactors of contracts in Afghanistan in recent years (…) DynCorp International, KBR and Fluor Corporation". And it says how: questionable track records, overcherging, enjoying almost monopolised access to contracts… Apart from that, it also mentions […]

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Past Is Prologue or: A tale of two Olympics

Anthony Agnello •

Shortly before a historic and emotionally laden Olympic hockey match between American and Russian athlets in 1980, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. The US, at that time, had actually already started its covert operation to support the mujahedin against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul; it would be their fight that would finally lead to the Soviet withdrawal. In […]

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[Interview with former Pakistani ambassador] Husain Haqqani

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The Diplomat, 21 February 2014 "I am worried about the fact that in 1947 what is today India had a literacy rate of 18 percent and what is Pakistan today had a literacy rate of 16 percent — a difference of just 2 percent. Today, the difference is about 20 percent. Today, India has a […]

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AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini on Kuchi community in Afghanistan – November 2013

Fabrizio Foschini •

Extensive interview with the author Fabrizio Foschini on findings of his report, ‘The Social Wandering of the Afghan Kuchis: Changing patterns, perceptions and politics of an Afghan community’

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AAN Co-director, Thomas Ruttig on Swiss Radio, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – November 2013

Thomas Ruttig •

Interview of Thomas Ruttig by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, on UNODC report regarding poppy cultivation in Afghanistan

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Local Afghan Power Structures and the International Military Intervention – November 2013

AAN Guests •

Extensive interview with the author Philipp Münch on findings of his report, ‘Local Afghan Power Structures and the International Military Intervention’  

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مردی با بمب دستی زن و دو کودکش را در غرب افغانستان مجروح کرد

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BBC (Persian), 18 February 2014 In an article about a man in Herat who blew up his own family members with a hand grenade, AAN's Wazhma Samandary is quoted as saying that cases of domestic violence might not have gone up, but the number of such cases reported: خانم وژمه سمندری از شبکه تحلیل گران […]

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Kabul seeks changes to legislation that would have limited family violence testimony

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Stars and Stripes, 18 February 2014 In a report on a proposed controversial change to Afghanistan's criminal code, AAN's Christine Roehrs is quoted: Christine Roehrs, an analyst with the Afghanistan Analyst Network, said that even if changes are made to Article 26 to allow family members to testify voluntarily, the new article will still be […]

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Afghan law to be revised after pressure on women’s rights

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AFP/New Straits Times, 17 February 2014 In an article reporting that President Karzai has ordered amendments to a proposed law criticised for eroding women’s rights, the author quotes from AAN's recent dispatch on the matter, authored by Sari Kouvo and Wazhma Samandary: “Although there is important mobilisation against violence against women,  there is also a backlash,” […]

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Kabul, così lontana così vicina

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Oggi Treviso, 17 February 2014 The Italian website indirectly quotes AAN's Thomas Ruttig as saying that "a presenza militare della NATO si è conclusa con un fallimento quasi totale". No further reference where this has been taken from.

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The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

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Firstlook, 17 February 2014 The US National Security Agency "is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people" (as AAN also has shown in one case from Takhar […]

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