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Thomas Ruttig

Afghan Cabinet nominee wanted by Interpol for tax evasion

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Reuters, 17 January 2015 Reporting on accusations of tax evasion that brought him on an Interpol ‘most wanted’ list against the candidate for Afghan agriculture minister Mohammad Yaqub Haidari, Reuters quoted a “biography of Haidari compiled by the Afghanistan Analysts Network [that] cited a recent television interview in which he said he once ran an agricultural import-export […]

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Islamic State Group Reaches for Afghanistan and Pakistan

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AP/New York Times, 16 January 2015 In this report, among a growing number of ‘sightings’, the “new, emerging threat from the Islamic State group” for “Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to al-Qaida and Taliban militants” is reported. Also AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted with his non-alarmistic attitude to the issue: “… the IS would struggle to mount […]

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Afghanistan’s Unity Government Takes Shape

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RFE/RL, 15 January 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted three times in this article about the new Afghan cabinet: “You would expect both a need to balance political forces and to in some way reward backers and strive to have some good people there,” says Kate Clark, country director of Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent […]

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[China] Exploring a New Role: Peacemaker in Afghanistan

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New York Times (blog), 14 January 2015 Exploring the reasons behind China’s increasing engagement with Afghanistan, including with the Afghan Taleban, the authors says that China now has established an independent (from Pakistan) channel to the Afghan Taleban. The same article also says, however, that during its recent visit to China, a small Taleban delegation “traveled […]

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د اشنا تلويزیون وروستۍ خپرونه

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Voice of America (Pashto service), 14 January 2015 AAN’s Obaid Ali can be seen in the news of Ashna TV, the Pashto service of Voice of America, with a statement on the new cabinet: many new faces, women and well-educate people included but therefore also “not very experienced.” (click on video window at the top […]

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Weder Warlords noch Taliban

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Deutsche Welle, 13 January 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here several times about the new national unity cabinet (in German), first about why it took so long: “The same political camps that were heavily competing with each other during the presidential campaign were now forced to get a cabinet together. Different political and patronage […]

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Ashraf Ghani needs Pakistan help with Taliban talks

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BBC, 13 January 2015 In this commentary for the BBC, Ahmed Rashid states that relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan “have improved dramatically” and that the new Afghan president “is looked upon favourably by Pakistan’s generals”  – “because he has avoided any anti-Pakistan rhetoric and his long stints in government never led to open hostility with Islamabad… Even more […]

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Today’s Headlines and Commentary

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Lawfare (blog), 13 January 2015 The blog links to the “Afghanistan Analysts Network’s … full review of the new Afghan cabinet now awaiting approval by parliament” in its daily headlines.

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A Turning Point in the Afghan War?

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Just Security (blog), 12 January 2015 One of the blogs editors, Ryan Goodman, refers to AAN’s first 2015 paper (“Resolute Support Light”, by Philipp Münch): “For an analysis of the potential differences between US-led combat operations in Afghanistan and NATO’s Operation Resolute Support, see this important paper published by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (esp. pp. 2-3) and […]

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Afghan president finally nominates cabinet ministers

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Reuters, 12 January 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig quoted in this article with a first take, and much shorter than in our 12 January dispatch, about the new national unity cabinet candidates list: Thomas Ruttig, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, agreed the top posts reflected political networks over professional qualifications, but there were also lesser-known names […]

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