Nur Khan Himmat The Pakistani government officially began implementing the second phase of its Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan on 1 April 2025 by targeting undocumented Afghans and those...
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The Fourth Year of the Opium Ban: An update from two of Afghanistan’s major poppy-growing areas
Fabrizio Foschini • Jelena Bjelica The Islamic Emirate’s ban on opium cultivation has entered its fourth year and apart from the first harvest of opium poppies in spring 2022, when farmers were...
Living a Mullah’s Life (1): The changing role and socio-economic status of Afghanistan’s village clerics
Sharif Akram In Afghanistan, where Islam has been the predominant religion for many centuries, local religious leaders, known as mullahs, are an influential group with significant say in almost every...
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From Welcoming Allies to Threats of Deportation: The changing status of Afghans in America
Jelena Bjelica Roughly 200,000 Afghans arrived in the US after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. They mainly settled in California, Virginia, Washington DC, Pennsylvania and, the...
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The End of US Aid to Afghanistan: What will it mean for families, services and the economy?
The full weight of the United States’ cuts to aid to Afghanistan has finally become clear. Almost all the aid that was promised – at least USD 1.8 billion – will now not be given, according to the US...
“The Doors to Seperation Are Closed for Women”: Women and divorce under the Emirate
For Afghan women, getting a divorce has always been difficult, but since the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate, it has become almost impossible. Under the new authorities, sharia – specifically...
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Migrating Poppy Cultivation: Afghan poppy farmers in Balochistan
Jelena Bjelica • Nur Khan Himmat After the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) banned opium poppy cultivation in April 2022, there was a movement of some farmers from southern Afghanistan into...
‘Stop Work!’ Aid and the Afghan economy after the halt to US aid
United States President Donald Trump’s executive order halting all US aid is reverberating through Afghanistan. Dozens of NGOs that depend on US funding are reported to have already closed. United...
Polio Cases on the Increase in Afghanistan: How is the Emirate handling immunisation?
Jelena Bjelica • Nur Khan Himmat After pausing the roll-out of the vaccination programme twice last year, the Islamic Emirate finally restarted polio vaccination for under-fives in late October 2024...
Reigniting the Flames of Justice: ICC seeks arrest of the Islamic Emirate’s Supreme Leader and Chief Justice
Rachel Reid • Roxanna Shapour The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has requested arrest warrants for two of the most senior leaders of the Islamic Emirate. Khan said that...
A Place to Call Home: What is driving up house prices in Kabul and pushing the poorest residents into homelessness?
Sayed Asadullah Sadat • Kate Clark House prices and rents in the Afghan capital are on the rise again, according to estate agents and tenants. There was a sharp decline in both prices and rents when...
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No Climate Change Deniers: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan goes to COP29, as an observer
Thomas Ruttig 24 Nov 2024 The 29th UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, which was hosted by the Republic of Azerbaijan, concluded on 24 November 2024 in Baku, with a delegation from the Islamic...
Opium Cultivation in Badakhshan: The new national leader, according to UNODC
Jelena Bjelica Fabrizio Foschini Although the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) ban on opium cultivation continues largely to hold, the area under poppy did increase in 2024, by almost a fifth,...
Afghanistan in Front of the World Court? What can be expected from a legal challenge to the Emirate’s violations of women’s rights
Rachel Reid The government of Afghanistan has been warned that its violations of women’s rights will trigger a referral to the United Nation’s highest court – the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
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Returning from Pakistan: How are Afghan returnees coping back in their homeland?
Jelena Bjelica • Ali Mohammad Sabawoon It is almost a year since, on 3 October 2023, Pakistan’s Prime Minister announced its decision to enact the Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan. Since then,...
Education in Hibernation: The end of a virtuous cycle of literacy and empowerment for women in Shughnan?
Fabrizio Foschini The ban on girls’ secondary education, together with other policies by the Islamic Emirate, have severely affected the lives of female teachers across Afghanistan. This is seldom...
AAN Translation: The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law
The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law, translated into English John Butt The Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, has issued a new law laying out the duties,...
Treating Drug Users in Afghanistan: How to respond to a massive problem?
Jelena Bjelica • Rohullah Sorush Afghanistan was, until recently, famously, the largest cultivator of illegal opiates in the world. Less well-known is that it is among the countries with the highest...
A Pay Cut for Afghan Women Working in the Public Sector: “What can you do with 5,000 afghanis?”
Jelena Bjelica • Roxanna Shapour The order by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Hibatullah Akhundzada, to cut the salaries of women on the public payroll to just 5,000...
The Fate of the Village Councils: The Emirate’s effort to institute hegemony over rural Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Community Development Councils (CDCs), which were established under the Islamic Republic by the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) and its successor Citizen’s Charter, have been...