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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The News/AFP, 28 October 2014 The Pakistani newspaper picks up a report apparently from AFP about the closure of the UK’s Camp Bastion, on of the largest NATO/ISAF bases in the country, in Helmand province. In it, it quotes from an AAN dispatch discussing the situation in one of Helmand’s districts, Sangin: “A report by […]
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Eurasia Review, 27 October 2014 In a short analysis of the trend of Central Asian jihadists enrolling with the IS to fight in Syria and Iraq , the author quotes from Christian Bleuer’s recent AAN dispatch about the same issue.
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The Guardian, 27 October 2014 Article on the recent fighting in Gizab quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert: “The US military expected most Afghans to turn against the Taliban when they realised that government forces were the stronger part. In Gizab, however, residents waited in vain after the revolt for the government to exert control, said […]
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