AAN is pleased to publish a translation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Penal Code for Courts by Islamic scholar John Butt.* The Code largely deals with what in Islamic law are called ta’zir punishments. These are discretionary, decided on by a judge or ruler, in this case, by the Islamic Emirate’s Supreme Leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. The bulk […]
Taleban and related documents
AAN has translated a decree from the Islamic Emirate’s Supreme Leader concerning assets belonging to Afghans who are absent from the country and those who are engaged in ‘spreading disorder’. The decree orders the dissolution of the Directorate of Residential Property Assessment under the Office of Administrative Affairs and tasks the military wing of the Supreme […]
Taleban and related documents
AAN is pleased to publish Islamic scholar John Butt’s complete translation of the Islamic Emirate’s law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The law specifies various actions and behaviour that the Emirate has forbidden or made obligatory for Afghan men and women. It also details the duties and powers of the ministry’s enforcers, who are granted extensive authority to impose penalties on those they have […]
Taleban and related documents
In 2004, a major report mapping the war crimes and human rights violations committed in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 was published by the United Nations before being swiftly taken down under political pressure, allegedly from then president Hamed Karzai, some of his ministers and foreign backers and from within the UN. What became known as […]
Human Rights
In its first update for five years, the Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography now covers some 8,000 titles. It is an invaluable resource for those studying and researching contemporary Afghanistan, particularly the post-1979 period. The author, Christian Bleuer, began compiling the bibliography in 2004/05 when, as a graduate student, he became increasingly frustrated with trying to find […]
AAN Bibliography
AAN has translated selected articles from the Draft Law Concerning the Prevention of Usurpation of Land and Restitution of Usurped Land that specify the types of land which are of concern to the IEA and which are referred to in the 15 December 2023 report ‘Land in Afghanistan: This time, retaking instead of grabbing land?‘ […]
Taleban and related documents
(English translation and original Pashto and Dari) AAN has translated the decrees, edicts and instructions of Taleban supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, from 2016, when he became leader, to May 2023, which were published in the Official Gazette on 22 May 2023 in Pashto and Dari. You can preview the English translation online, after the list […]
Taleban and related documents
AAN has calculated that, as of 1 May, the Taleban held 33 of Afghanistan’s 421 district centres. Two months later, at the end of June, they had captured and held 125 more, capturing also eight others, but losing them back to the government. In July so far, as the map below shows, the Taleban have […]
Others
The Afghan government has continued to lose district centres to the Taleban. By our reckoning, the insurgents have gained control of more 160 district centres since 1 May, most of them since mid-June. Added to the ones they already controlled, that puts the insurgents in charge of just over half of all Afghanistan’s district centres.
Others
AAN’s working translation of the rules of procedures (published by VOA in Dari and Pashto on 9 December 2020 here) Introduction The credibility and honour of Afghanistan is bestowed by its Islamic identity and national unity. Our country can be saved from dependencies, [and] direct and indirect interference by others when Islamic justice is safeguarded in the […]
Peace process
Presented on 14 September 2020, as a result of the Conference of War Victims’ families and relatives on the start of Intra-Afghan Peace Talks “The entire peace process must be victim-centered, just and aimed at healing the wounds of victims of war and avoiding future recurrence of violence and crime.” Resolution Conference of War Victims’ families and relatives on the start of Intra-Afghan […]
Peace process
AAN’s translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team members from the original Dari published by the Taleban here, on 12 September 2020, the same day intra-Afghan negotiations began in Doha. AAN has published biographies of the team, drawing on a wide range of sources, here. Honourable Sheikh Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Mawlawi Sheikh Abdul Hakim, son […]
Peace process
