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Thomas Ruttig

Zoff um Wahlergebnis in Afghanistan: Jeder Streit um Zahlen ist müßig

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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 20 June 2014 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, providing a first look at the unfolding counting crisis after round 2 of the Afghan provincial elections (in German). Particularly calls to street protests by pro-Abdullah politicians, which might get out of control, can lead to an escalation. All population data, however, ae unreliable in […]

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Elections (31): Afghanistan’s confusing election maths

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Only hours after polling centres had closed on the evening of the second round of voting in the Afghan presidential election, the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) was already giving the first turnout figures. They were high. Some media broadcast them without question; other outlets were more sceptical, citing anecdotal evidence suggesting turnout might actually […]

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Gewinnt doch wieder Karsai?

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Neues Deutschland, 17 June 2014 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the Berlin-based daily (subscribers only)), saying that – before even first preliminary results are out – both candidates come up wizh accusations of fraud. Due to the lack of an impartial institution to eliviate conflict, outgoing president Hamed Karzai might turn out as the […]

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Elections 2014 (30): Some initial reflections on E-Day II

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The counting of second round votes from the presidential elections is still under way in much of Afghanistan, although results are now trickling in from some polling stations. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to assess how well the second round went: the impact of security incidents, level of fraud and, especially importantly, how big the turnout […]

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Elections 2014 (25): Election mobilisation of women in the Pashtun southeast

Pakteen Ibrahimi • Thomas Ruttig •

For the second round of the presidential election on 14 June 2014, some of the major tribes in Paktia have decided their women should also participate more actively, allowing them to cast their votes themselves. Women turnout in Pashtun-inhabited areas is usually below average, which is increasingly being perceived as a disadvantage by candidates relying […]

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«Ein Machtkampf innerhalb der Taliban» Pakistanische Taliban greifen zum zweiten Mal den internationalen Flughafen von Karatschi an

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20 Minuten, 11 June 2014 The Swiss news portal interviews AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Pakistani Taleban’s attack on Karachi Airport and its implications in the region (in German).

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Taliban gegen pakistanische Regierung: Wie geht der Machtkampf aus?

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Deutschlandradio Kultur, 10 June 2014 Listen to the audio file of a live interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the attack of Pakistani Taleban on Karachi Airport and its regional repercussions.

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Importance of Taliban prisoner swap

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ORF FM4 (Austrian radio), 5 June 2014 English-language audio of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig an the significance of the Afghan prisoner swap and the Taleban video reased of it.

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Ein filmreifer Deal und viele Fragen

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Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), 5 June 2014 Article (in German) about the Afghan prisoner swap between the US and the Taleban, with quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, saying, among other things that  fears the Taleban could learn from their success with Bergdahl that it pays to abduct US soldiers are unrealistic, that the choice of Qatar as a […]

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Flaws in the governance

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The Gulf Today/The Independent, 28 May 2014 The author in the Independent writes: “money spent on Afghanistan does not mean money spent in Afghanistan, but even taking this into account it is extraordinary that, despite gargantuan sums spent, Afghan government figures reveal that 60 per cent of children are malnourished and only 27 per cent […]

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Zwölf Jahre Afghanistaneinsatz: eine Zwischenbilanz

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Bundeswehr-Journal, 24 May 2014 The German military forces’ website summarises the statement by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig at a hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the German parliament trying to draw lessons from 13 years of ISAF, initiated by the Green faction: […] Doch zunächst zu Thomas Ruttig, Mitbegründer und Co-Direktor der unabhängigen, gemeinnützigen Forschungsinstitution „Afghanistan […]

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Pour WikiLeaks, la NSA sait tout des conversations téléphoniques en Afghanistan

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France24, 23 May 2014 Asked whether he is surprised about Wikileaks’ disclosure that Afghanistan is onw of the two countries where all phone calls have been recorded by the NSA, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is not surprised and says that everyone in Afghanistan has been conviced of that for a long time and that mobile phones are […]

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