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Circling the Lion's Den: April 2013
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Circling the Lion's Den. A glance at the conflict in Afghanistan. How did this lot get here? And whos taking it awa. How Raymond Davis gummed up the works. Car rally in FATA runs out of gas. Drilling down into Lashkar-e-Taiba. Stinging rebuke on Pakistan aid programme. Legal News: Robert Langdon Is Pardoned! 8220;WICKED PROBLEMS”: COMPLEXITY IN 21st CENTURY CONFLICT. Candle Lighting: A Symbol of Nonviolence Against Darkness and Injustice. Tourists hurt in Afghanistan! Failure of Security Transition?
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Circling the Lion's Den: July 2012
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Circling the Lion's Den. A glance at the conflict in Afghanistan. Pakistans bloody TTP factions fight it out. Motasim removed from UN Sanctions list. The Afghan engineer who builds drones. Najam Sethi under threat. Semples Mawlawi mentally insane. Women heroes of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al-Qaeda a plague - Taliban commander. Arabs no longer welcome? Security for civilians at all-time low - report. The Punjabis who fought for Balochistan. Remind me - who are we fighting again? View my complete profile.
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Lessons learned: a very brief post-mortem of the 2014 elections | Afghanistan Analysis
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Thoughts and such on Afghanistan (and Pakistan). Afghanistan as explained by Yeats’s poetry. Book review: A Fort of Nine Towers and a tale of two books →. Lessons learned: a very brief post-mortem of the 2014 elections. May 3, 2014. Inside the voting booth in Afghanistan. This list is not exhaustive, of course, so feel free to add your thoughts in the comments. Marital status and the spouse’s religion don’t matter. Money can buy votes, but only for the right candidate. But Zalmai Rassoul found that his A...
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Book review: A Fort of Nine Towers and a tale of two books | Afghanistan Analysis
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Thoughts and such on Afghanistan (and Pakistan). Lessons learned: a very brief post-mortem of the 2014 elections. The Last Thousand chooses education a thousand times over →. Book review: A Fort of Nine Towers and a tale of two books. May 11, 2014. This is the first book review on this blog, and it is admittedly too late for a book that was published last year. But I have long wanted to write something about English-language books written by Afghan authors; this is my opportunity. Qais Akbar Omar, author.
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On the Conflict Mapping Report | Kabul Perspective
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Power Transition Key to Post-2014 Stability →. August 3, 2012 · 7:15 pm. On the Conflict Mapping Report. Recently bits and pieces of the report detailing war crimes and atrocities of 80s and 90s has been hitting media. Besides, there is lack of interest from the international community for publication of the report. President Karzai’s backers, particularly the US, will seek to prevent its publication given the NATO withdrawal deadline and Obama Administration’s rush for a political settlement with th...
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Political Transition and Calls for Electoral Reforms-II | Kabul Perspective
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Political Transition and Calls for Electoral Reforms-I. Supremacists of Academy of Sciences →. May 16, 2012 · 3:29 pm. Political Transition and Calls for Electoral Reforms-II. Op-ed published May 16. Read Part I of this op-ed here. In 2009, parliament adopted a law calling for approval of IEC commissioners from parliament. It was rejected by President Karzai. The current commissioners’ political sympathy for President is no secret. The incumbent President’s term will end on May 22, 2014. Law must pro...
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Kabul Perspective | Perspective of a Journalist from Kabul | Page 2
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Newer posts →. May 8, 2012 · 10:32 am. Strategic Pact and Uncertainties. Op-ed published May 08. President Obama’s short stay in Kabul was more of a symbolic political visit on the eve of Osama bin Laden’s first death anniversary. Addressing Americans from Afghanistan before launching reelection campaign, President Obama reminded them that he sent the Navy SEALs to kill Osama. Presidents Obama and Karzai also signed the US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). After two years of contenti...
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Failure of Security Transition? | Kabul Perspective
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Power Transition Key to Post-2014 Stability. August 15, 2012 · 6:48 pm. Failure of Security Transition? My op-ed Outlook Afghanistan published on August 13. According to civil society activists, 32 residents of Bamiyan have been killed during last six months, mostly in Jalrez District of Maidan Wardak and Ghorband District of Parwan on the way to Kabul. They say fuel tankers are torched by Taliban militants. Prices have gone skyrocketing in the province. With the local population welcoming and supportive...
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Power Transition Key to Post-2014 Stability | Kabul Perspective
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On the Conflict Mapping Report. Failure of Security Transition? August 15, 2012 · 6:06 pm. Power Transition Key to Post-2014 Stability. Nowadays most analysis and opinion pieces on op-ed pages by Western media pundits talk of Afghanistan returning to civil war after the NATO and US troops’ withdrawal in 2014. They express concerns about the fragile tribal atmosphere and fear fragmentation of Afghan National Security Forces along ethnic lines. Domestically, there are preparations and uncertainties about t...
