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Under Pul-e Sukhta bridge. Photo: Qayoom Suroush

Under the Bridge: The drug addicts’ scene in Kabul

Qayoom Suroush •

Addiction to drugs is an often underestimated phenomenon in Afghanistan. Thousands of people become addicted to drugs every year in a country that is the world’s major producer of opiates, although many of them developed the habit while living abroad as refugees. In Kabul, they concentrate in western areas of the city, living in veritable […]

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Bala Hissar, Sherpur fortress and Arg: The architecture of power in Kabul

Bill Woodburn •

Throughout the centuries, the seat of power in Kabul has almost always been within the walls of a strong fortress-palace. That will continue, as whatever the outcome of the current election, the new president will continue to live in the Arg. Guest author Bill Woodburn*, retired military engineer and specialist in fortified architecture, traces the […]

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Killing of Americans at Kabul hospital highlights foreigners’ risk

AAN •

Los Angeles Times, 25 April 2014 In another article about the killing of three medical staff of a NGO-run hospital in Kabul, AAN's Kate Clark is quoted with an explanation: "They [foreign civilians] can be seen as the soft underbelly of the intervention, an easy way to hit Western governments rather than trying to fight […]

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Afghan Officer Kills 3 Americans at Hospital

AAN •

Wall Street Journal, 25 April 2014 In an article on the killing of three medical staff at a NGO-run hospital in Kabul, AAN's Kate Clark tries an explanation:  "There is perhaps the start of a trend of foreign civilians being targeted," said Kate Clark, a veteran analyst with the Kabul-based Afghan Analysts Network. "For various […]

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”Regeringen kan ligga bakom mordet på Horner”

AAN •

Svenska Dagbladet, 12 March 2014 AAN member and former head of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, Anders Fänge, is quoted here, commenting on the assassination of Swedish journalist Nils Horner in Kabuö on 11 May:   Svensk polis har tränat afghansk polis inom ramen för Europol, men Anders Fänge är tveksam till om det har gett någon […]

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Swedish journalist Nils Horner murdered execution-style in Kabul

AAN •

The Independent, 11 March 2014 Reportng the assassination of a Swedish-British journalist in central Kabul this morning, AAN's Kate Clark is quoted. "Kate Clark of the Kabul-based think-tank, Afghanistan Analysts Network, said it was too early to say if there is a trend for targeting westerners in the city, since the attack was unique and […]

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Rallies, Debate, Rain and Snow: The 2014 presidential election campaign starts

Kate Clark •

The Afghan presidential election campaign has kicked off – two months before polling day. Candidates are showing a range of attitudes, from launching big, brash public rallies to a rather desultory ‘we start tomorrow’ attitude. With no evident frontrunner, it seems the campaign will involve a real attempt to win over voters and will be […]

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Pakistan ‘behind fatal blast’, say Afghan officials

AAN Team •

AFP/The Australian, 21 January 2014 The news agency report about reactions to the Taverna attack quotes from the AAN dispatch: “It was an attack on foreign civilians targeted merely for being foreign, a rare occasion in this Afghan war,” said Afghanistan Analysts Network.”

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Deadly Kabul attack throws aid work into peril

AAN Team •

AFP/The Daily Star, 20 January 2014 This report about the fallout of the Taverna attack in Kabul quotes extensively from AAN’s dispatch: “This was an attack on foreign civilians targeted merely for being foreign – a rare occasion in this Afghan war,” the Afghanistan Analysts Network said in a report released Sunday. “[It] may be […]

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Implications of the Kabul Restaurant Attack

AAN Team •

Centre for International Policy Studies (Canada), 19 January 2014 The blog of the Ottawa-based institute picks up, among other sources, AAN’s take on this attack: “The more immediate impact of Friday’s attack will likely be on the civilian international personnel in Afghanistan, as Kate Clark and Christine Roehrs of the Afghan Analysts Network [sic] point out. […]

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Taliban attack on expats in Kabul cafe is likely to accelerate disengagement

AAN Team •

Guardian, 19 January 2014 Emma Graham Harrison picks up the jist of AAN’s dispatch on the Taverna attack in her article:”This was an attack on foreign civilians targeted merely for being foreign – a rare occasion in this Afghan war,” the Afghanistan Analysts Network said in a report on the killings. “It is unlikely that an attack […]

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Taliban Attack on Kabul Restaurant Rattles Close-Knit Expat Community

AAN Team •

Wall Street Journal, 18 January 2014 “Many foreigners in Kabul were particularly enraged by the fact that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who frequently issues statements to criticize U.S. airstrikes, took some 20 hours to come up with a condemnation of the restaurant attack” claimed by the Taleban writes the leading US daily and quotes Kate Clark, a […]

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