Deutschlandfunk, 29 July 2014 Audio of a radio feature (in German) by German freelancer Marc Thörner who found out that German troops in Kunduz province – during what has often been described as “Germany’s first military offensive since World War II” – have killed a number of Afghan civilians (and found proof for it) during […]
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Voice of America, 16 July 2014 Another ‘farewell’ interview of President Hamed Karzai, with some remarkable statements: regretting some of his statements in an earlier BBC interview; speaking i favour of a natipnal unity government but against “an arrangement of a sort of coalition of political parties”; saying that the “change of system from presidential […]
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Wall Street Journal, 1 July 2014 The United Nations has classified the Afghan police and the Taleban as “persistent perpetrators” of underage recruitment and urged Kabul to “redouble its efforts” to eliminate child fighters. In a report released on Tuesday, the UN said at least 97 children were recruited to fight in 2013 alone, up […]
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The Caravan, 1 July 2014 Extremely interesting long text by Mahvish Ahmad describing how Balochistan’s 67-year-old movement for independence has turned from Marxist into a “middle-class insurgency of engineers, peasants, college dropouts, ex-policemen, shopkeepers and others”. “Today, when war and militancy in Pakistan are often equated with the activities of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, few, even […]
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BBC, 30 June 2014 After Pakistani troops have moved into Miranshah in North Waziristan, the BBC reports that most fighters of the TTP, the Haqqani network and foreign fighters, are “believed to have slipped into Afghanistan’s Khost province after Pakistani troops left a section of the border unmanned for a couple of weeks prior to the […]
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The Atlantic, 23 June 2014 Mujib Mashal’s extensive portrait of outgoing president Hamed Karzai, with even more extensive interview (view link).
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The Atlantic, 23 June 2014 Portraits of Omar Daudzai, Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Eng. Ibrahim Spinzada.
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The News, 14 June 2014 The Pakistani daily’s analyst Amir Mir thinks the six-months break of US drone strikes in Pakistan (now ended) has been caused by warnings by the Afghan Taleban that such strikes could kill Bowe Bergdahl. Now, after the prisoner swap, this reason does not exist anymore. He adds that one of the […]
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RFE/RL, 12 June 2014 With interesting examples in pictures.
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Pajhwok Afghan News, 11 June 2014 The two candidates “Abdullah and Ghani have held out countless promises to the masses, who seem tired of the long-drawn out electoral process” comments the Kabul-based news agency, and compiles an interesting list. It does not include yet Ghani’s latest one, to appoint a women to the Supreme Court.
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Pajhwok Afghan News, 10 June 2014 The Karzais and the Massuds, the Gailainis, the Mojaddedis and late Haji Qader’s people, the Shahranis and even Pacha Khan Dzadran and his brother…
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RFE/RL, 3 June 2014 This article quotes several Afghan MPs, experts and academia about why it took the Afghan parliament almost ten years to finally discuss a law against money laundering – because there are personal and high-ranking economic interests at stake.
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