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Sudhansu Verma

Kunduz economy rides 2014 jitters

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Afghanistan Today, 26 June 2013 An interesting look into the workings of Kunduz economy: The 2014 combat troop withdrawal gives some enterpreneurs the jitters, and it has its effects: ‘In 2012, a day labourer was paid on average 500 Afghanis (almost nine US dollars). The wage has now halved in some areas. Recession aside, finding […]

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Taliban offer to trade U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan

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The Star, 21 June 2013 New hints at the possibility of a deal for exchanging prisoners made by the Taleban representatives in Qatar have rekindled hopes in the US of bringing home Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, prisoner since 2009. The Taleban, on the other hand, ask for the release of some of their senior officials long […]

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Afghan revelations: Pakistan-US secret diplomacy created Doha roadmap

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The Express Tribune, 20 June 2013 This long article by the Pakistani newspaper offers Islamabad’s take of the opening of the Taleban office in Qatar. According to its many (unnamed) diplomatic sources “the real breakthrough in these negotiations came through personal diplomacy between John Kerry and Pakistan’s Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.” It thus […]

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28 June 2013, Brussels: Round-table discussion with Sari Kouvo

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Dr Sari Kouvo of the Afghanistan Analyst Network (AAN) will present AAN’s upcoming report ‘Tell Us How This Ends – Transitional Justice and Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan’ at a European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) Brown Bag Lunch. The EPLO lunch events are 1-1.5 hour-long, informal round-table discussions on a wide range of geographic and […]

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The World According to Warlick

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El Snarkistani Storify feed, 19 June 2013 AAN guest blogger Gary Owens gathered examples of the apt and insightful social media presence of US Ambassador James Warlick.

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Emergency Aid for Afghan Bomb Victims “Stolen”

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IWPR, 13 June 2013 IWPR reporters track down the lot of a 100,000$ worth of medical help meant for the clinic of remote (and contested) Azra district of Logar immediately after it had been hit hard by a truck bomb in July 2011 (AAN then wrote about the ruthless attack). The materials apparently never made […]

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Safe as Houses?

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Afghanistan Today, 6 June 2013 Safe houses and shelters are a life-saving resource for many Afghan women who have run away from violence or have been disowned by their families. But such sanctuaries as the House of Hope in Mazar-e Sharif can lose their funding after 2014 if the government does not step in to […]

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Iran executions anger Afghan families

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al-Jazeera, 6 June 2013 Dozens of Afghans have been executed in recent months across the border in Iran, mostly for drug related offences, writes Bettany Matta. She looks into some individual cases, and also reports that the Taleban claim that they had taken up the issue in their recent meeting in Tehran: ‘We mentioned all […]

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Landays

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Poetry Foundation (no date) Read a fascinating article about one of the most popular Pashtun literary forms, the landay, in its 22 syllables a kind of Afghan haiku – and about them into picking up current events.

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Of Facts And Fables In Afghanistan

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 June 2013 Bashir Ahmad Gwakh teels the story how the air was let out of some over-hyped popular books about Afghanistan.

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