Forbes, 4 April 2018 [Eric] Prince’s eyes dart around as if he’s on guard while he shares the early framework of his Afghanistan proposal. It revolves around a private force of 6,000 contractors, supplemented by 2,000 U.S. special operations troops and support personnel, who would embed with local Afghan units. Air power would be led […]
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AFP, 8 March 2018 A very interesting article about one of Afghanistan’s most underreported minorities, the Jogi. Most of the group of 20,000 to 30,000 who are Sunni Muslims live in northern Afghanistan, many near Mazar-e Sharif. But Afghanistan’s constitution does not explicitly recognise them as Afghans, making it difficult for them to obtain a tazkira. In 2006, the […]
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The New Yorker (online), 27 February 2018 Barnett Rubin, an American who helped open secret negotiations with the movement, answered their 14 February 2018 Open Letter “to the American people” and calls for them to challenge the Afghan and the US governments and the second meeting of the Kabul Process beginning today in Kabul with […]
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War on the Rocks, 23 February 2018 Prof Barnett R. Rubin’s theses on peacemaking and hurdles (mainly regional ones) for it. If we read if carefully, he suggests to hand over to the Chinese and Indian ‘mega-economies’ and hope for some trickle-down effect for peace in Afghanistan.
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Washington Post/Stars and Stripes, 14 February 2018 Pamela Constable has met ex-President Karzai and looks at his ambiguous politicking: His theories often sound conspiratorial and his proposals self-serving. It is not always easy to tell if he believes his more far-fetched assertions, such as that the United States is secretly supporting the Islamic State offshoot […]
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Expressen (2014), 1 June 2014 The story of the little Afghan girl that was the sole survivor of an US air strike in 2013 that had now made waves in the media, was already told 8and in English) by Terese Cristiansson in the Swedish newspaper Expressen in 2014.
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The Intercept, 27 January 2018 Amazing story by May Jeong, from Assadabad in Kunar province, that has happened in September 2013. But also: Apparently the story had been written elsewhere before – see above: “The story of the faceless girl” from 2014.
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Gandhara, 25 January 2018 A new example of ‘militias gone wrong‘ in the northeast of Afghanistan, here Kunduz, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty blog contributors Ajmal Aryan and Abubakar Siddique.: Farmers across Kunduz say illegal militias prey on their livelihoods and extort money or take away a portion of their produce in the name of Islamic taxes […]
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ToloNews, 22 January 2018 Intersting article on the context of the recent Taleban hotel bombing in Kabul – which avoids, however, to mention the apparently confirmed (by other media) information that the company is owned by Chief Executive Dr Abdullah’s chief of office
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AFP, 6 January 2018 A very interesting article, reminding of one of the most important archaeological landmarks of Afghanistan. “This is a masterpiece. You have to imagine how it looked like, fully decorated with lapis, some parts in red, it was all covered and painted: it was like a garden of paradise inside, with a […]
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Pajhwok News Agency, 27 December 2017 The Kabul-based news agency draws attention to two widespread, but underreported social phenomena in Afghanistan: child and bonded labour.
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Pajhwok News Agency, 18 December 2017 Report about a lesser known method of how the Taleban fund themselves, by the Kabul-based news agency.
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