Zee News, 22 September 2014 In this article on the election result, power-sharing deal and the national unity government in Afghanistan, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: “We do not know if a government of national unity was merited by what happened at the polls,” analyst Kate Clark said in a briefing paper on Monday for the […]
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Wiener Zeitung, 22 September 2014 The German-language article in the Vienna-based newspaper picks up Kate Clark’s AAN analysis of the Afghan election outcome: “Durch das Abkommen muss die neue Administration mehr Arbeit schultern, als die Kontrahenten sich zu Beginn ihres Antretens vorstellen konnten”, heißt es in einer Analyse des “Afghanistan Analysts Network”. Im günstigsten Fall […]
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ARD, 21 September 2014 The report of German state broadcaster on its main news show Tagesschau about the election outcome also quotes AAN’s Kate Clark (in German): “Wir reden über Afghanistan immer als Land nach einem Konflikt. Aber das stimmt nicht. In Afghanistan tobt ein bewaffneter Aufstand. In der Regierung und in der Opposition finden […]
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Tagesspiegel, 21 September 2014 In this article (in German) announcing the ‘outcome’ of the Afghan presidential election, the Berlin-based daily quotes a recent AAN dispatch authored by Lola Cecchinel about the security context of the electional aftermath, on increasing numbers of fighters coming in from Pakistan and for Taleban territorial gains in Kunduz province.
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Neues Deutschland, 19 September 2014 Thomas Ruttig’s full guest article (in German) analyses the situation on the eve of the proclamation of the Afghan presidential election result, including the (then still pending) agreement on a “government of national unity”, saying that experience from other countries shows that such ‘grand coalitions’ often lead to political stagnation […]
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Stars and Stripes, 18 September 2014 In this article about the pre-election result announcements positioning, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: “Kate Clark, a researcher with the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network, said the two camps were literally wrangling over the percentages of the election’s final results.”
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Stars and Stripes, 12 September 2014 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the many ways one can be arrested – and released – as a ‘terrorist’ in Afghanistan: “There are ways to release people if you’ve got money or influence. That’s always been the case,” said Kate Clark, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts […]
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Los Angeles Times, 7 September 2014 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here on Iran’s role in Afghanistan: Obaid Ali, an analyst for the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said Washington hopes the long-term agreement will signal to Iran that it should not attempt to destabilize Afghanistan, its neighbor to the east. “The Saudis and Pakistanis are […]
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Radio 1 (Netherlands), 4 September 2014 Listen to an 11:50 minute audio in Dutch on the Afghan elections stalemate, featuring AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and EU chief observer Thijs Berman.
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PanArmenian, 5 September 2014 The short item about the Afghan audit indirectly quotes an AAN information that “a few hundred boxes of votes have been completely invalidated so far but many more could be partly invalidated.”
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 4 September 2014 Guest article (in German) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the security situation in Kunduz province, five years after a German PRT commander ordered an airstrike against alleged Taleban who turned out to be mostly civilians, not engaged in fighting. The strategic aim behind the German airstrike and later operations – […]
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Los Angeles Times, 4 September 2014 Covering the truck bomb attack against Ghazni province’s intelligence HQ, correspondent Ali Latifi, a former AAN colleague, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman: “Attacks of this nature are meant to send a message to the government that the opposition can infiltrate the centers of their security apparatus,” said Borhan Osman, a […]
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