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Sudhansu Verma

‘Bei uns gucken sie sogar Bollywood-Filme’

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Frankfurter Rundschau, 24 November 2011 Willi Germund talks to a Taleban commander from Ghazni, who came to meet him in Kabul, who tells him that his favourite radio station is the Voice of America, that he doesn’t carry an AK-47 anymore because he is busy collecting ‘taxes’ from ‘the rich’, that Pakistan supports them and […]

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Berlin, 23 November 2011: Boell Foundation Afghanistan conference with AAN participation

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‘Zehn Jahre nach Petersberg: Wo steht Afghanistan heute?’ (Ten Years after Petersberg: Where does Afghanistan stand today?) is the title of a one-day conference of the German Heinrich Boell Foundation, part of the run-up to the international Bonn 2 conference on 5 December. AAN’s Advisory Board Chairman Francesc Vendrell and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig will be […]

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EU censors own film on Afghan women prisoners

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BBC, 10 November 2011 The EU has blocked the release of a documentary on Afghan women who are in jail for so-called “moral crimes”, which it commissioned and paid for, because of “very real concerns for the safety of the women portrayed”. Heather Barr, of Human Rights Watch: ‘It would be reassuring to think that […]

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Crucial plan to reintegrate Afghan insurgents falling flat

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McClatchy Newspapers
, 3 November 2011 Shashank Bengali and Habib Zohori’s rendering of how the reintegration programme in Ghazni is failing.

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Pakistani civilian victims vent anger over US drones

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BBC, 3 November 2011 When tribal elders from the remote Pakistani region of North Waziristan travelled to Islamabad last week to protest against CIA drone strikes, a teenager called Tariq Khan was among them. Four days later, he was dead – beheaded by a drone strike.

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India plans ‘world’s most dangerous railroad’ from Afghanistan to Iran

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Daily Telegraph, 2 November 2011 India is planning to build a railroad from Bamian’s Hajigak iron ore deposits to the Iranian port of Chahrbahar on the Arabian Sea in attempt to open a new trade route and reduce Kabul’s dependence on Pakistan. Delhi expects problems with the US, though, who might object to Iran’s role […]

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Clinton’s Dubious Plan to Save Afghanistan With a ‘New Silk Road’

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The Atlantic, 2 November 2011 Joshua Kucera’s analysis of the ‘New Silk Road’ plan: designed by Fred Starr, the chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, a small Washington think tank, initially dismissed by the State Department, the adopted by Petraeus’ CentCom – and, as he quotes Marlene Laruelle new book ‘Mapping Central Asia’: ‘The underlying […]

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The Ally From Hell

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The Atlantic, 1 November 2011 On the US-Pak relationship, the lies Pakistan is telling the US, the lies the US is telling itself – and about how much (or not) the Pakistani nuclear programme is protected, details about how the US want to render it useless in the case of an islamist coup and what […]

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Hope Amid Chaos: Mineral Resources & Afghanistan’s Economic Future

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Muftah, 31 October 2011 Article by IWA’s Javed Noorani discusses the opportunities, risks and pitfalls surrounding the extraction of Afghanistan’s mineral resources.

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Afghan Private Schools Under Scrutiny

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IWPR, 31 October 2011 Maiwand Safi reports about a probe ordered by President Karzai over Kabul’s private schools. While parents decry sometimes substandard teaching and high fees, the MoE criticises that English is taught instead of Dari and Pashto in some of them. The Chamber of Commerce sees an undue interference into the private sector.

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