New York Times, 14 February 2017 Mujib Mashal’s heart-breaking story about two mothers who each lost three sons fighting on both sides of the Afghan war,
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New York Times, 1 February 2017 Very good analysis and a couple of tough questions by Barnett Rubin on the complex issues that the new US administration will face when dealing with Afghanistan, for example: sending more troops and putting stronger pressure on Pakistan – “there is no base for believing that either of these measures […]
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RFE/RL, 26 January 2017 The Gandhara blog of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has done good research: all (at least many) past tweets by the new US president by country. Click Afghanistan.
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Daily News (Pakistan), 20 January 2017 Article on the ill-treatment of women in Afghanistan refers to a case discussed in AAN’s recent dispatch by Salima Ahmadi “Reality Check: No justice for women in Ghor province”: On 25 October 2015, Afghanistan Analyst Network in its paper reported 19 years old girl Miss Rukhshanda was stoned to death in […]
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The Guardian, 26 December 2016 Sune Engel Rasmussen on commander Perim Qul’s militia in Rustaq in the northern province of Takhar, paid by the Afghan intelligence service and – indirectly – its donors, that include the CIA.
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The New York Times, 26 December 2016 Mujib Mashal has located the Norwegian diplomat, a former missionary in Pakistan, who told him how he built relations of trust to Pakistani and Afghan clerics, among them Taleban, and opened up a channel for Norway’s peace diplomacy that attempted to bring about direct Kabul-Taleban talks and peace […]
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Tolonews, 18 November 2016 An eye-opening report about the real picture of girls education in Afghanistan: While the provincial authorities of Paktika admit that not a single girl has finished class 12 since 2001, they promise tht the first ones will do so this year. But civil society activists doubt even this: “We could not find […]
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The Economist, 9 December 2016 The weekly’s columnist “Lexington” has accompanied outgoing US secretary of defence Ashton Carter on his last journey to South Asia, including Afghanistan. An extremely interesting read. For example here: For any reporter who visited Afghanistan at the height of the war, it is startling to hear how America’s objectives have […]
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Tolo News, 19 November 2016 A study by Kabul-based Pursesh Study and Research Organization shows that Hindus living in Afghanistan have been discriminated against and that their rights are not entrenched in the country’s constitution. According to the study, the Hindus’ rights are being violated in a number of ways including that regarding the confiscation of their […]
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Pajhwok, 14 November 2016 Kabul-based news agency Pajhwok – that has started to regularly report its own war casualty figures from Afghanistan – has published the October 2016 figures: “As many as 3,285 people have been killed and wounded in 193 attacks across Afghanistan last month, showing a 35 percent increase in assaults and 83 […]
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Los Angeles Times, 31 October 2016 Another how militias – both ‘official’ and private – strive due to rivalries among the local authorities, this time from Takhar province
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New York Times, 31 October 2016 The Times has spoken with the Taleban’s former chief negotiator and head of their political commission Sayed Muhammad Tayeb Agha – who is still influential among the more politically inclined insurgents – who has not only broken with nearly 15 years of public silence but also the so far seemingly unambiguous Taleban […]
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