al-Arabiya/AFP, 2 June 2013 ‘Scores of disabled people, several of them amputees, gathered outside a Red Cross office in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday to protest against militants who attacked the building four days ago.’ Reportedly, there was a similar demo in Kandahar.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1 June 2013 Abubakar Siddique looks at repercussions of the killing of Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, the deputy TTP commander, in a US drone strike.
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This is what happens when you ban male press from a female rock fest in Afghanistan The Gender Report, 29 May 2013 Last month, in Kabul’s Lycee Esteqlal the country’s largest ever female rock festival was held. Male journalists were excluded, and since almost none of the major international news outlets in the country employ […]
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Balkh newspapers struggling to survive Pajhwok News Agency (Kabul), 30 April 2013 ‘The newspaper industry in Balkh province is struggling to survive in the face of security concerns, declining readership and self-censorship. … Qayyum Babak, whose daily Jehan-i-Naw was shut down four years ago, said newspapers began losing their ground with a rapid increase in […]
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Afghans Failing Security Test In Badakhshan RFE/RL, 28 March 2013 After NATO handed over security duties in Badakhshan to the ANA and ANP last year, ‘a spike in violence and increased militant activity’ has been registered. The two Afghan authors write that ‘the region is an ideal testing ground of Afghanistan’s ability to secure remote […]
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Reuters, 26 February 2013 Best account of background of Karzai kicking out US special forces from Wardak so far…
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AP, 26 February 2013 ‘The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan incorrectly reported a decline last year in Taliban attacks and is preparing to publish corrected numbers that could undercut its narrative of a Taliban in steep decline.’ It is called ‘clerical errors’.
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al-Jazeera, 26 February 2013 Impressions from the key venue of talks-to-be with the Taleban, and a scenery in which ‘everyone is trying to woo them’. and ‘one representative for Berlin’ proven ‘particularly irksome’ (can also be a revenge for German accusations that the US have kicked them out of the talks for which they opened […]
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AfPak Channel, 22 February 2013 AAN author Niamatullah Ibrahimi’s analysis of the anti-Hazara violence in Quetta and in wider Pakistan.
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New York Times, 17 February 2013 Just a brilliant reportage: ‘Residents here call it Car Guantánamo. Behind these walls are thousands of cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles and even bicycles, lined up in vehicular purgatory after falling afoul of the Kabul traffic police. Things that have landed cars in the slammer: illegal left turns, parking violations, […]
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The National (UAE), 17 February 2013 More Afghan refugees – most not directly from the country but from Iran – are arriving in Turkey, after Iranian authorities did not extend papers, in some cases to people who lived there for decades. Reportage about a group of Afghan refugees living in a basement of an Istanbul […]
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At War Blog (NYT), 11 February 2013 ‘Get lost, or i put the vest on’ – Habib Zohuri’s take on war’s influence on everyday language in Afghanistan.
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