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Sudhansu Verma

Why One of Afghanistan’s Most Feared Men Is a U.S. Ally

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Times, 4 October 2011 This follow-up article by Julius Cavendish gives more detail on Azizullah, the violent Special Forces’ ally in Paktika’s Bermel district, and provides a glimpse inside the murky world of Afghan Guard Forces, Counterterroism Pursuit Teams and otherwise largely uncontrolled Afghan forces..

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3 October 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo discusses the current situation in Afghanistan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland

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Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland, AAN’s Sari Kouvo discussed the current situation in Afghanistan with represenatives of Finnish ministries and civil society.

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2 October 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo discusses gender, conflict and Afghanistan and KATU’s Security Seminar in Helsinki, Finland

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AAN’s Sari Kouvo held a seminar about gender and human security at the annual security seminar of the Civil Society Conflict Prevention Network in Finland. The aim of the seminar was to challenge the state-centered security paradigm through a focus on human security. Other speakers included Finland’s Minister of Development, Heidi Hautala, and Minister of […]

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Tehran hosted Taliban event, seeks Afghan role

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Washington Post, 29 September 2011 A Taleban delegation, consisting of Nik Mohammad and possibly Tayyeb Agha, registered as the “American Opposition Forces”, participated in Tehran’s recent Islamic Awakening conference. The representatives did not address the conference and apparently did not meet with the Afghan delegation led by Rabbani, although some members had noticed their presence.

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10 myths about Afghanistan

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Guardian, 27 September In 1988, the Soviet army left Afghanistan after a concerted campaign by the western-backed mujahideen. But since then, many enduring myths have grown up about the war-torn country. In his new book, Jonathan Steele sorts the fact from the fiction.

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23 September 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo in cooperation with the European Network for NGOs in Afghanistan (ENNA) hosts a discussion about civil society in Afghanistan in Brussels, Belgium

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AAN’s Sari Kouvo in cooperation with the ENNA Brussels’s office organised an informal information-sharing event for Brussels-based think tanks and civil society organisations. The aim of the event was to share information about Afghanistan-related advocacy and policy in Brussels and about civil society activities in the run up to the high-level conference on Afghanistan in […]

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State failure (Killing of Hazaras in Baluchistan)

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Friday Times (Pakistan), 23-29 September 2011 In his editorial, Najam Sethi reports that ‘[o]ver 500 Shia Hazaras have been killed in Balochistan by Sunni extremists in the recent past. Last Tuesday, a bus was waylaid near Quetta by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists who mowed down 26 Shia passengers in cold blood. A month earlier, a story in […]

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20 September 2011: AAN’s Sari Kouvo contributed to the NY University’s Abu Dhabi Institute’s Gender and Counter-Terrorism debate

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AAN’s Sari Kouvo served as commentator at the launch of the report ‘A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism’ at the NY University’s institute in Abu Dhabi.

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12 September 2011: Discussion Paper by Ann Wilkens: A New Pakistan is Needed

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This latest discussion paper by Ann Wilkens, Advisory Board member of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) outlines key political challenges facing Pakistan and relevant for Afghanistan. The focus of the report is on possible political openings after the killing of Osama bin Laden. For more details click here.

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