Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

AAN in the Media

Women’s lives under the Islamic Emirate

In a report for Scotland’s Daily Herald newspaper on 3 September 2023, Foreign Editor David Pratt, quotes AAN research on women’s lives: Education, employment and travel curtailed, barred from parks, gyms, and other public spaces, torture for those that disobey, the oppression of women in Afghanistan grows daily and amounts to “gender apartheid.” Their observations are both […]

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Profitieren die Taliban? Das Dilemma der Helfer in Afghanistan

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 August 2023 The author in one of Germany‘s leading dailies, Tobias Matern, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig here, as saying – in the context of the discussion about whether seek diplomatic channels with the Taleban – that “[humanitarian] aid has priority over reaching political aims” (in German). https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/afghanistan-hilfsorganisationen-heinrich-schoeneich-taliban-dilemma-1.6168051?reduced=true

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Should world leaders start talking to the Taliban?

BBC, 14 August 2023 Along with Afghan women and western diplomats, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here: “There’s a lot of distrust, even disdain, between sides who fought each other for years,” says Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. “The Taliban think the West still wants to corrupt their nation and the West doesn’t […]

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Einst keine Sicherheit, nun keine Hoffnung

dpa, 14 August AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article of German news agency dpa on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Taleban’s takeover of power (in German): Trotz der desaströsen Lage erwartet der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig keinen baldigen Machtwechsel. “Die Taliban sitzen fest im Sattel.” Oppositionsgruppen, die während der ersten Taliban-Herrschaft […]

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Auf Kurt Becks Taliban-Spuren

Tageszeitung, 14 August 2023 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes in the Berlin-based daily about the initiative of a former Afghan diplomats and some SPD politicians to organise an ‘intra-Afghan dialogue conference in Germany in October to bring representatives of the Taleban and ex-President Karzai (and other groups) together – and the hurdles such an initiative faces.

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„Es tauchte die ‚Ursünde‘ auf“

Tageszeitung (taz), 13 August 2023 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, together with taz’s Asia editor Sven Hansen, interviews German MP Michael Müller who heads the German parliament’s enquiry commission looking at the country’s contribution to the Afghanistan mission 2001-21 (in German). https://taz.de/Michael-Mueller-ueber-Afghanistan/!5949655/

AAN in the Media