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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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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reset.it, 16 January 2015 The Italian magazine prints a long interview (in Italian) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. English version to follow.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Los Angeles Times, 10 January 2015 Discussing the link between former President Karzai’s ban on NATO air support for the ANSF and the number of civilian casualties, author Ali Latifi quotes AAN’s Obaid Ali: Obaid Ali of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research group, said increased civilian casualties are in part due to the […]
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The Times of Central Asia, 9 January 2015 In a report that the national security services of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have taken preventive measures to strengthen their border with Afghanistan amid reports on concentration of fighters on the Afghan side of the border, the website quotes AAN: According to the independent non-commercial organization, Afghanistan Analysts […]
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al-Jazeera, 6 January 2015 Reporting that “Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has marked 100 days in office as he continues to struggle to name a cabinet, creating a political stalemate”, the Qatar-based TV station quotes AAN’s Kate Clark : Kate Clark, a senior analyst for the Afghanistan Analysts Network, told Al Jazeera that though Ashraf came to power promising to tackle […]
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