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Taliban Secrecy Obscures Afghanistan’s Economic Reality

28th January, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes: A newly-released World Bank assessment suggests economic conditions in Afghanistan are improving just as UN agencies are warning that the country is on the verge of “systemic collapse.” Making the dilemma even more mysterious is the Taliban’s lack of transparency – for if business is booming, why isn’t the cash flowing to those

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Posted in Economic News, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: Poverty |
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The Case for Partitioning Afghanistan

26th January, 2023 · admin

Small War Journal: Proponents of Iraqi partition commonly observe that Iraq is the artificial dividend of French and British diplomats drawing arbitrary lines across their maps in 1919 and 1946. In fact, most Middle Eastern borders that match this description typically divide barren, uninhabited deserts, rather than separating long-standing population groups. Instead, this description applies

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial, Political News |
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The world is ignoring ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan — again

14th January, 2023 · admin

The Hill: In an attempt to moderate their international image after the fall of Kabul, Taliban authorities pledged to ensure security for Afghanistan’s religious minorities. These were false promises. In reality, the Taliban has used its power to remove Hazara leaders from all levels of government, discriminate against Hazaras in distributions of humanitarian aid and

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: ethnic cleansing, genocide, Hazaras, Pashtun war on Hazaras |
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Taliban Support for Kuchi Land Grabbers Could Bolster Resistance

31st December, 2022 · admin

Michael Hughes: The Taliban have much to gain – both economically and militarily – by enabling the Kuchis, Pashtun nomads, to seize land and build homes within sedentary communities in Hazarajat and other areas in the country’s northeast. However, the strategy is also pregnant with risk: for land disputes have historically been known to spark

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Posted in Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Kuchis, Land grabbing, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun Kuchi Invasion, Pashtun war on Hazaras |
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What I saw in an Afghanistan abandoned pool changed my life

27th December, 2022 · admin

Fox News: If I could prevent one teenage girl from choosing to jump from a rooftop rather than suffer rape and abuse at the hands of the Taliban, my time in Afghanistan, however long that might be, would be worthwhile. If I could prevent one family from being forced to watch their father shoved off

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Posted in Human Rights, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists |
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Mental Illnesses Under Taliban

26th December, 2022 · admin

8am: Since the Taliban takeover, Afghan citizens have been dealing with many psychological disorders, and the mental health of millions has been damaged. Previously, with Taliban suicide attacks, roadside bombings, assassinations of government employees and foreign institutions, and other acts of violence by this group, the collective psyche of the society had been severely damaged,

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Posted in Health News, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Mental Health |
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Why China’s belt and road plan is facing threat of jihadist terrorism

16th December, 2022 · admin

South China Morning Post: As global geopolitics continues to be driven by great power competition, China will feature more prominently in the transnational jihadist rhetoric. Jihadist groups like Isis-K require a bigger adversary to justify their extremist violence and attract funding and recruitment. For the past two decades, the raison d’être of transnational jihadism was

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial |
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Anti-Pakistani Militants Find ‘Strategic Depth’ in Afghanistan

3rd December, 2022 · admin

Michael Hughes: General Mirza Aslam Beg as a chief instructor at the National Defense College during the early 1980s allegedly first articulated Pakistan’s version of the military doctrine known as “strategic depth,” which posits Islamabad’s hegemony in Afghanistan as critical in case of war with India. Many in Rawalpindi felt the Taliban seizing Kabul (again) was crucial

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Posted in History, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Afghan activist Zarifa Ghafari: ‘They sold Afghanistan to the Taliban’

2nd December, 2022 · admin

FT: Ghafari is scathing about the 20 years of US intervention. “It was not a ‘war on terror’. It was war to produce more terrorism,” she says. “They [US forces] destroyed entire villages. And if you asked, they would say, ‘There was one or two Taliban.’” In Afghanistan’s perennial woes she sees the traces of

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Posted in History, Opinion/Editorial, Political News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: US betrayal of Afghans, Zarifa Ghafari |
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Afghanistan: Why Ahmad Shah Massoud still matters to the Middle East

14th November, 2022 · admin

Middle East Eye: As the Taliban reel from the repercussions of the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan, there is fresh debate over the right way to carry out a war – Few individuals would unite Bernard-Henri Levy, Michael Waltz, Qassem Soleimani and Abdullah Azzam like Ahmad Shah Massoud, the subject of their boundless admiration. So what

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Posted in Human Rights, Opinion/Editorial | Tags: Ahmad Shah Masood |
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