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Sudhansu Verma

Top Afghan Security Official Wins Case Challenging Corruption Accusation

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New York Times, 24 September 2012 A judicial panel here ruled in favor of Afghanistan’s national security chief Rangin Dadfar Spanta on Monday in an unusual case of a senior government official turning to the courts and the public to prove that allegations of corruption against him.

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The US Army And Afghanistan’s Bad Divorce

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The Daily Beast
 (blog), 19 September 2012 The experience of a former US trainer embedded in the Afghan security forces, saying that already ‘by the mid 2000s, the relationship [between the trainers and the Afghan troops] had begun to fray’ – because ‘the ANA was growing, getting better at its job, and chaffing at the […]

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Wahlkampf mit 10 000 Kugelschreibern (Campaign with 10,000 Ballpens)

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FR online and Basler Zeitung, 17 Sept. 2010 Willi Germund’s protrait of a Kabul candidate with democratic leanings and some of his opponents, like the big landlord who was charged for drug offenses and still has better chances than the democrat (in German, the Basler Zeitung is only accesible for subscribers).

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Majority of Female Prisoners Jailed for Fleeing Home

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ToloNews, 17 September 2012 An intersting about-face of the Afghan justice minister: after attacking women shelters as havens of prostitution several weeks ago (which drew angry protests and forced him to row back somewhat), he now admitted that most female prisoners in his country are jailed for something that is no crime at all: fleeing […]

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September 2012: German anthology on Afghanistan with AAN contribution published

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Under the title ‘Das Scheitern der Luftlande-Demokratie in Afghanistan: Die Bonner Vereinbarungen von 2001 und die versandete Demokratisierung am Hindukusch – ein Blick von innen’, Thomas Ruttig’s contribution to the recently published AAN E-Book ‘Snapshots of an Intervention. The Unlearned Lessons of Afghanistan’s Decade of Assistance (2001–11)’ now is available also in German. It is […]

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A Pointless Blacklisting

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New York Times, 12 September 2012 An opinion piece of our friends and colleagues Alex Strick and Felix Kuehn about the US declaring the Haqqani network terrorists. They are more on the ‘con’ than on the ‘pro’ side.

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Records Missing on Afghan Army Fuel Costs

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New York Times, 10 September 2012 It is about 475 million USD, by the way. And now imagine what happens if an NGO cannot account for 0.001 per cent of it…

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Murder spotlights Pakistan’s ‘heroin kingpin’

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Reuters, 5 September 2012 A fascinating story about a key Baluch drugs smuggler, his alleged links to Pakistani intelligence and – of course – to the Afghan conflict.

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Prevalence of malnutrition in southern Afghanistan ‘shocking’

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Guardian, 4 September 2012 Emma Graham-Harrison looks beyond the military realm: ‘Around a third of young children in southern Afghanistan are acutely malnourished, with a level of deprivation similar to that found in famine zones, a government survey has found, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into […]

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Abuse allegations mount against flagship Afghan police force

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Reuters, 29 August 2012 The discrepancies between the NATO narrative on the ALp and reality widens: Reuters reports, with reference to Afghanistan’s top military prosecutor, that ‘more than 100 ALP members have been jailed for crimes including murder, bombings, rapes, beatings and robbery’.

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What Surge? Afghanistan’s Most Violent Places Stay Bad, Despite Extra Troops

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Wired (blog), 23 August 2012 ‘When President Obama surged 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan in 2010, the new forces were concentrated overwhelmingly on two volatile areas of southern Afghanistan: Helmand and Kandahar Provinces. Now, as the troop surge is practically over, those provinces still rank as the most violent in the entire country. According […]

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