· October, 2007

Stories about Afghanistan from October, 2007

Afghanistan: Private Military Contractors

Afghanistan Watch quotes an online foreign policy daily World Politics Review, which has published a piece devoted to the private security contractors in Afghanistan. As reported, the media has generally...

31 October 2007

Afghanistan: NATO Leases Out?

Afghanistan Watch reports on the NAYO decision to lease cargo helicopters (perhaps, from Russia and Ukraine) because members of the alliance again refused to provide airlift out of their own...

30 October 2007

Afghanistan: Exports Go Up

Afghanistan Watch reports that the country's exports, which are 10 times lower than imports, have shown the upward trend this year.

25 October 2007

Afghanistan: Asia Foundation Survey

Afghanistan Watch looks inside the Asia Foundation's latest survey of the Afghani people and notes that it paints a nuanced picture and provides some fascinating data on various issues: from...

24 October 2007

Afghanistan: Countering the Narcotics

Informed Comment Global Affairs continues its series of posts to analyze the main aspects of counter-narcotics policy in Afghanistan, in response to the recently published U.S. Counter-Narcotics Strategy for Afghanistan...

23 October 2007

Afghanistan: The View from Herat

Informed Comment Global Affairs reports on the 17th meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization that has taken place in Herat last week, being focused on...

22 October 2007

Afghanistan:Freedom of press in danger

Baktash Syavash,blogger and journalist has interviewd[Fa]Tavab Nyazi, an Afghan journalist who was jailed for seven months.Yavab Nyazi was accused of collaborating with Taliban.The blogger writes that Nyazi was jailed illegally...

21 October 2007

Afghanistan:Father of Saffron

Safrang writes about a man who used to be a opium poppy growing farmer and then he shifted to grow saffron.The blogger says this man who is called “father of...

14 October 2007

Afghanistan: Corruption, Beauty, and Hope for the Future

Afghan blogger Mohammad Fahim Khairy asks, is President Hamid Karzai out of touch? "On the night of the [suicide] attack, Karzai showed up on national television and announced “The attacker is definitely a foreigner because Afghans do not kill any Muslims in the month of Ramadan.” How easily Karzai dismisses the crimes of the so-called Muslim Taliban that millions of people have witnessed with their own eyes."

4 October 2007