The Guardian, 17 September 2021 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the Taleban’s education policy for girls and women pre-2001 and currently: “Education and literacy are so strongly valued in Islam that the Taliban could not ban girls schools on Islamic grounds, so they always said they would open them when security improved. It […]
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Just Security, 16 September 2021 Huma Saeed, in this essay on justice and accountability during the past 20 years of the Afghan conflict, quotes from a 2013 AAN report: In effect, the United States reinvigorated warlords who had been militarily defeated and politically relegated to obscurity under the Taliban. Some factional commanders even anticipated disarmament […]
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The Guardian, 14 September 2021 The British daily quotes recent AAN research about a power struggle in the Taleban leadership and the disappearence from public view of their deputy leader Mulla Baradar: Baradar was already considered to have lost out in the internal Taliban disputes over the formation of the new government, according to the […]
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The National, 14 September 2021 The Dubai-based daily quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the dire economic and aid situation in now again Taleban-ruled Afghanistan: A journalist, Kate Clark, warned of an “impending humanitarian catastrophe” if the supply of foreign aid is cut off.“Afghanistan is a country that has relied heavily on foreign income and aid […]
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RFE/RL, 14 September 2021 In this article, looking at the new Taleban cabinet in Afghanistan, related AAN research is quoted: The Afghanistan Analysts Network concluded from those appointments that Baradar lost out in internal Taliban disputes over the formation of the caretaker government. Experts from the Afghanistan Analysts Network say Mullah Haibatullah’s absence from all […]
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The New York Times, 13 September 2021 In this opinion piece, author Sarah Stockman quotes from AAN’s Kate Clark’s major report of Afghanistan as a rentier economy: A report by Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network outlined how Afghanistan’s rentier economy undermined efforts to build a democracy. Since money flowed from foreigners instead of taxes, […]
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The Guardian, 10 September 2021 In this article looking back at how US troops’ mass killings boosted Taleban support in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted with the following assessment: “The insurgency was not inevitable. There was a good chance for peace in 2001. Everyone, including the […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 10 September 2021 This article quotes AAN research on pre-2001 Taleban governance: Indeed, the Taliban “showed little interest in running public services,” either during their rule from 1996 to 2001, or in areas under their control since then, according to a report this week by the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network. “It is […]
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ARD-Tagesschau, 9 September 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig comment on the visit of the ISI chief in now Taleban-controlled Kabul, seeing it as a gesture of new Pakistani influence, after decades denying their support for them (in German): Der Besuch der Pakistaner in Kabul ist für Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan Analysts Network alles andere als ein […]
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Time, 9 September 2021 This portrait of new Taleban ‘Prime Minister’ Mullah Hassan quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, looking back at his tenure with the UN under the first Taleban regime: He also comments on the current Taleban moof vis-a-vis the international community and the new Taleban government: According to Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the research […]
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Financial Times, 8 September 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on a possible working relationship between donor countris and the new Taleban regime: Thomas Ruttig, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research organisation, said that establishing a working relationship with the Taliban was vital to deliver humanitarian assistance and stave off a collapse in […]
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NBC, 8 September 2021 AAN’s Kate Clark comments on the new Taleban cabinet in this analysis: A State Department spokesperson said it had noted the lack of inclusivity, but Kate Clark, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a policy research organization based in Kabul,said it was not surprising. “The Taliban never gave any hint that […]
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