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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Lam Thuy Vo Afghanistan is an increasingly dangerous war zone, but, according to journalist Lam Thuy Vo, Germany hasn't exactly laid out the welcome mat for Afghan refugees. While Germany approved 96 percent of asylum applications for Syrians in 2015, Afghan asylum-seekers have less than a 50-50...
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Published: 01 December 2016
As an Afghan refugee, Zabi Hashemi has a 50–50 chance of receiving asylum status in Germany. LAM THUY VO
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Published: 01 June 2012
Alima, a three-year-old Afghan girl, lines up with other IDPs to receive winter coats in Farah City. ISAF Public Affairs
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2017
... World Policy Journal asks leading writers and thinkers about the role of family values in an evolving world. We hear from Mexican-American authors Sandra Cisneros and Erika L. Sanchez, Afghan nonprofit leader Sakena Yacoobi, Tajik novelist Shahzoda Nazarova, and writer Devdutt Pattanaik of India...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 25–36.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of Staff, Eighth United States Army; and Commanding officer of the 10th Mountain Division Artillery. © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute US Army Uruzgan, Afghanistan—Two days before Afghanistan’s election in September 2010, some 1,200 Afghans stormed a NATO coalition...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 82–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Peter Tomsen It was 4 a.m. on June 23, 2001, and a few distant stars punctured the darkness above the Uzbek city of Samarkand. I stepped out into the night, leaving the lobby of a concrete, Stalinist-era hotel, accompanied by Abdul Haq, an Afghan Pashtun leader in the anti-Taliban resistance...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan
Barnett R. Rubin an d Andrea Armstrong
For much of the modern era, Afghanistan The collapse of the Afghan state as a re
might credibly be defined as a large body of sult of the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the
rocky land surrounded by neighbors who ex factional...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in Shakir conducts jihad with the sword. God
Peshawar, Pakistan, and operated by the becomes happy with the defeat of the Rus
Afghan mujahidin (holy warriors), pub sians
lished a series of primary education text Z al [is for] Oppression (zulm).
books replete with images of Islamic...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 31–37.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Jack Devine; Whitney Kassel Jack Devine is former CIA deputy director of operations and chief of the CIA Afghan Task Force, 1986-87. He is president of the Arkin Group, a private sector intelligence company based in New York. Whitney Kassel is a former foreign affairs specialist...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 68–77.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Alima, a three-year-old Afghan girl, lines up with other IDPs to receive winter coats in Farah City. ISAF Public Affairs ...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 69–78.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Michael Daxner © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Between 2003 and 2007, I visited Afghanistan 10 times in my capacity as an advisor to the Afghan Minister of Higher Education, and as an independent academic researcher examining relations between the NATO-led...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... Afghanistan’s government ranks
the expansion of Afghan government au among the world’s weakest and its people
thority than at any point since late 2001.”5 among the most destitute. The country re
The hard-core Taliban may be temporarily lies on international assistance not only for
defunct...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 51–59.
Published: 01 September 2000
... one who was there at the time, king in 1973. While it may sound sinister
is almost certainly no. to call those officers “Soviet-trained,” many
Like the beat of a butterfly’s wings, in the Afghan military had received training
this local coup fanned regional and then just across the border...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Patricia Degennaro © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute On April 1 this year, a riot erupted in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province. Infuriated by a Florida preacher’s burning of a Quran, hundreds of Afghans overran a United Nations...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Special Forces and America’s Green
Frontier province. Here the last British gov Berets.
ernor and the Muslim League jointly side The British romance with the Pashtuns
tracked the Red Shirts, a brave, promising deepened after the Second Afghan War
and inconvenient popular movement...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2001
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and fight alongside the Mujaheddin, or to period, Tajikistan’s Islamic opposition was
study at Pakistani and Saudi madrassas. inspired by the Afghan Tajik military com
Moreover, in 1986, the United States, Brit mander Ahmad Shah Masud’s more moder
ain, and Pakistan’s secret services agreed on ated...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2005
... . Nevertheless, he
Afghanistan, and had willingly allowed wanted to watch the trials, and traveled to
Pakistan to become the base of a holy war the test range not far from Bahawalpur,
by the self-styled mujahidin against the about 330 miles south of the Pakistani capi
Moscow-backed Afghan government...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 11–24.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to a head. The success the vice president of the state unit of the
of the Afghan resistance, actually due to its Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
unique great-power backing, gave armed ( b j p ). Hindus began to be and feel threat
struggle new attraction for Kashmiris. Paki ened, and what...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
...; the i m u ’s numbers opposition. But a vocal minority is increas
soon grew to include Tajiks, Kazakhs, Kyr ingly concerned about his measures. Count
gyz, Chechens, Pakistanis, Afghans, and less reports have surfaced of arbitrary arrests,
others. torture...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2002
... nations this February found that only 18 percent
believed Muslims were responsible for the attacks, and three out of four persons opposed
America’s Afghan campaign. Doubtless this partly reflects the media bias in the nine
countries, but it bodes ill for any U.S. invasion of Iraq. Washington...
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