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Thomas Ruttig

Afghanistan Spezial: die ISAF-Mission und die Zukunft des Landes

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Bundeswehr.de, 4 November 2014 The official website of the German armed forces produced an “Afghanistan Special”, on the occasion of the near end of the ISAF mission. It interviewed AAN’s Thomas Ruttig – asking him to describe Afghanistan (a challenge) and  draw a balance of the ISAF mission (in German, with some photos).

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Afghan Deportees Return To Shattered Lives

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Gandhara blog (RFE/RL), 4 November 2014 Our former colleague and author Seyyed Reza Kazemi quoted again in this heart-breaking article about the an Afghan asylum seeker deported by Australia and hiding in Kabul now, with a link to his latest AAN dispatch: Sayed Reza Kazemi, an Afghan scholar at Heidelberg University in Germany, says his recent […]

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27 Nov 2014: “Afghanistan – Leap in the Dark” (AAN in Dessau, Germany)

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This is the title of a public presentation by AAN Co-Director Thomas Ruttig that will take place on 27 November 2014 in Dessau (Germany). „Nothing is good in Afghanistan.“ With this sentence in her New Year’s sermon for 2010 then chairperson of the Council oft he Evangelical Church in Germany, Margot Käßmann, triggered a harsh […]

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Return Duo Wanted in Kabul Bank Fraud: Afghanistan

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Indian Express, 3 November 2014 AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is quoted in this article about President Ghani’s re-upping of the Kabul Bank fraud case: Speaking to Express, Martine Van Bijlert co-director of Afghanistan Analysts Network said that the announcement of the probe was an important symbolic act for President Ghani to focus on Kabul Bank […]

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Unheard Stories of Afghanistan

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Lundagard, 3 November 2014 The students newspaper of Lund University in Sweden summarises a presentation by Thomas Ruttig (and an earlier one by Amrullah Saleh) about the current situation in Afghanistan and concentrates on the issue of education.

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Afghanistan’s Ghani drops Pashtun name from official documents

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AFP/Asia One, 31 October 2014 “Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network said the decision to drop the name was a “good step” as the president works on making the new national unity government a success. He added that it was reminiscent of an initiative to remove tribal names undertaken by former president Mohammed Daoud […]

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China faces delicate task in Afghanistan

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Global Times and People’s Daily, 30 October 2014 The two leading official English-language newspapers of the People’s Republic carry the same commentary on President Ghani’s China visit – so this seems to be the official line: “Even when the last US soldier leaves, China will never take on the role played by the US and […]

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Afghanistan Opium Production At Record High Amid Instability, Slowing Economy And High Demand

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International Business Times, 29 October 2014 In this article about the expanding opium production in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: “The main profits on Afghan drugs are made outside of Afghanistan, as opium and its derivatives go to Europe,” Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent think tank based in Berlin […]

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China Pledges $327 Million in Aid to Afghanistan

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Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2014 In an article about the visit of President Ghani to China, AAN author (without being identified as such) Reza Kazemi is quoted: Said Reza Kazemi, a Ph.D. student who has studied the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, said China was presenting itself as a stronger regional player. “China, if not […]

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Jäähyväiset Afganistanille

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YLE, 29 October 2014 Finnish TV draws a balance of the country’s part of the ISAF mission and quotes AAN co-founder Sari Kouvo: Ihmisoikeusjuristi Sari Kouvon mukaan tästä koitui operaatiolle sen suurin epäonnistuminen. – Maakunnissa oli parin vuoden ajan valtatyhjiö, mikä mahdollisti Talibanin ja muiden kapinallisten vahvistumisen uudelleen. Siinä hukattiin todellinen mahdollisuus, sanoo nykyisin EU:ssa […]

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Taliban return to Afghan town that rose up and drove out its leaders

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The Guardian, 28 October 2014 In a detailed report about the comeback of the Taleban and the end of the anti-Taleban uprising, “Martine van Bijlert, an Uruzgan expert with the Afghanistan Analysts Network” is quoted: In Gizab, however, residents waited in vain after the revolt for the government to exert control…  “Instead, they just felt like […]

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British troops “struggled to maintain clarity of purpose” in Afghanistan

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Voice of Russia, 28 October 2014 Also, the website of Russia’s state radio picks up an AFP report quoting an earlier AAN dispatch about the situation in Sangin district.  

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