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13 April 2012: New article by Thomas Ruttig in ‘Orient’

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‘The Road through Qatar: Chances for a political solution with the Taleban’ is the latest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in ‘Orient’, issue II/2012, a Berlin-based journal founded in 1960 and currently edited by Deutsches Orient-Institut in the German capital. It is part of a special issue on Afghanistan. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the […]

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Afghanistan War: Special Operations War Plan Proposed

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AP, 12 April 2012 Now the McRaven Plan: The AP has learned details of a plan developed by the head of US special operations ‘that would replace thousands of US troops with small special operations teams paired with Afghans to help an inexperienced Afghan force withstand a Taliban onslaught as U.S. troops withdraw’. According to […]

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The Logistical Nightmare of Leaving Afghanistan

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Der Spiegel (online), 3 April 2012 How NATO and the US will need Russia and the Central Asian Republics to be able to pull out of Afghanistan.

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19 April 2012: Informal Briefing on Legal Aid in Afghanistan

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The Swedish Embassy organised a discussion on 19 April surrounding the release of a new report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN): “Legal Aid in Afghanistan: Contexts, Challenges and the Future”. The report, that was released on Wednesday 18 April, discusses the historical, legal and political context of recent reforms in the field of legal […]

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Jobs for Ex-Militants Feed Distrust of Afghan State

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Wall Street Journal, 1 April 2012 Yaroslav Trofimov tells the story of Commander Abdullah, locally known as Charsi, or hashish smoker, one of the most feared insurgent leaders in western Afghanistan and now ‘reintegrated’, waiting to be put in charge of the local Afghan Border Police. Local elders worry: ‘What lesson is this teaching to […]

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Yakaolang’s historical fort on verge of destruction

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Pajhwok News Agency (Kabul), 31 March 2012 The priceless ancient Kushan Chehel Burj fort with its 40 surviving towers is on the verge of being lost due to natural and human influences, but local and foreign archeologists remain silent on the issue, the Kabul-based agency reports.

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18 April 2012: New AAN report: Legal Aid in Afghanistan: Contexts, Challenges and the Future

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In this new AAN report, lawyer and legal aid expert Sarah Han looks at the historical, legal and political context to the provision of legal aid and describes the efforts of the international community over the past five years to developing funding streams for the accused. In doing so, the author commends the modest but […]

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Ahmed Rashid in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Comedy Central, 28 March 2012 Ahmed Rashid tells the Americans what they apparently did not realise: there are two different Talebans – the Afghan and the Pakistani and answers the questions why, despite the Hellfire they let rain on Pakistan, no one loves them there.

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Why the aid drawdown in Afghanistan could be a good thing

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IRIN, 26 March 2012 The gradual drawdown of US-NATO troops, and the planned handover of full security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014, has had the aid community worried about a corresponding drop in aid funds. But many aid workers also see the transition as an opportunity to reset aid delivery in Afghanistan, which for […]

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Torture By Music

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BBC, 26 March 2012 A British citizen who was released after two years in Guantanamo, and never charged with any crime thereafter, reports that the tirture technique he feared most was being tortured with music. Listen to a documentary that charts the progress of him, alongside other ex-detainees, campaigners and psychologists, as they attempt to […]

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