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Despite a Whiff of Unpleasant Exaggeration, a City’s Pollution Is Real

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New York Times, 21 January 2013 A report about pollution and air quality in Kabul, with the Kabul mayor Mohammad Yunus Nawandish saying: ‘Kabul air is not as polluted with human feces as they say.’

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Black & Veatch, with history of problems in Afghanistan, now has another

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McClatchy newspapers, 19 January 2013 Another (failed and USAID-financed) US contractor story, featuring the ‘White Elephant of Kabul’, the Tarakhel Power Plant, a USD 300 million project.

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Where Many Streets Have No Name: One for the Freedom of Speech?

Thomas Ruttig •

Afghan journalists want to rename a street in central Kabul ‘Freedom of Speech Street’ to honour the many colleagues who have sacrificed their lives in this cause over the past ten years. Their initiative has met some resistance – not because of the content but because the street already bears the name of an independence […]

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AAN Reportage: What Sparked the Ashura Day Riots and Murder in Kabul University?

Borhan Osman •

Last November, on the day of Ashura, a Muslim religious day with particular importance for Shias who mourn the martyrdom of the Prophet’s grandson Hussain, clashes erupted between Sunni and Shia students in the dormitory of the Kabul University. The campus was literally turned into a battlefield. One student was killed and more than a […]

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Former United States Envoy Returns To Kabul Politics

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Wall Street Journal, 8 December 2012 Zalmay Khalilzad, Afghanistan-born former US ambassador to Kabul and, in 2009, rumoured to have considered a presidential candidacy himself is currently in Kabul: ‘I am here to facilitate an agreement among key personalities and forces on a possible consensus on key issues confronting the country, and the formation of […]

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Afghanistan’s displaced dread the coming winter

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Los Angeles Times, 1 December 2012 An under-reported minority: ‘Afghanistan is home to 460,000 internally displaced people, Afghans who have fled war, strife or famine in other parts of the country. More than 30,000 have settled in illegal camps around Kabul in search of jobs and shelter

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Was kommt nach dem deutschen Truppenabzug?

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ARD tagesschau.de, 28 November 2012 AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini on Germany’s main TV channel’s website about Afghanistan’s future development: ‘The worry I have is not a civil war in Kabul. The political elite will possibly be able to prevent that they fall out with each other completely and fires rockets at each other. I am worried […]

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Afghan Clash Raises Sectarian Fears

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Wall Street Journal, 25 November 2012 Wall Street Journal article selectively quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert (who had also stressed that such incidents currently remain small and scattered and do not necessarily represent widely spread sentiments): The incidents of sectarian tensions in Kabul that are becoming more frequent create a vicious circle, analysts say.

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The Asia Foundation’s 2012 survey and how to read opinion polls in Afghanistan

Martine van Bijlert •

On 14 November the Asia Foundation released its 2012 ‘Survey of the Afghan People’, based on data collected by ACSOR (Afghan Center for Socio-Economic Research), a Kabul-based research organisation that has done the data collection for almost all large publicly released opinion polls. It is the eighth survey in its kind: the first was released […]

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Stabilizing Afghanistan a major diplomatic challenge

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People’s Daily (China), 25 September 2012 … including for China, writes a commentator with the interesting name Chen Chenchen in Beijing’s official English-language daily, the Global Times. ‘Many are speculating about the long-term ambitions of Beijing, believing that the emerging power is seeking a larger role in post-NATO Afghanistan and is looking for greater influence […]

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Wahlkampf mit 10 000 Kugelschreibern (Campaign with 10,000 Ballpens)

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FR online and Basler Zeitung, 17 Sept. 2010 Willi Germund’s protrait of a Kabul candidate with democratic leanings and some of his opponents, like the big landlord who was charged for drug offenses and still has better chances than the democrat (in German, the Basler Zeitung is only accesible for subscribers).

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Afghanistan Marks Independence Day With Low-Key Event

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RFR/RL, 18 August 2012 The short report quotes Reuters, that several Kabul residents said they were disappointed that the historic day was no longer being marked by many Afghans.

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