Kate Clark
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Kate Clark
@KateClark66
Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. I mainly tweet on Afghanistan, occasionally on wildlife and, when I'm lucky, on Afghan birds and flowers.
- I may not be interested in cricket, but the Afghan game persuaded me to write a history of #Afghan cricket in 2017. Reposting in honour of a historic win against my country. (And wishing the women cricketers were also still on the field.) @s_vrma @AANafgh afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/eco…
- And. Now. Beating. Pakistan. Afghan cricketers go from strength to strength. Afghanistan zindabad!I may not be interested in cricket, but the Afghan game persuaded me to write a history of #Afghan cricket in 2017. Reposting in honour of a historic win against my country. (And wishing the women cricketers were also still on the field.) @s_vrma @AANafgh afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/eco…
- Look how lovely Kabul once was when there were very few cars, clean air and far more fit and healthy cyclists. This was 2002.
Great! I hope there comes a day when everybody - men and women- could use bikes to go around Kabul. It is good for the environment and for people’s health. - Strong interview from Fatema Gailani: constructive proposals for what happens next and some bitter condemnation for those who've failed #Afghanistan, and all from the heart.
- On yet another dark day for Kabul's Hazaras, this piece by @AANafgh colleague, @ali_adili is worth re-reading: "A Community Under Attack: How successive governments failed west Kabul and the Hazaras who live there"
- Going after 'Taleban remnants' meant mass indiscriminate arrests, torture, supporting Afghan allies' persecution of rivals, refusing Omar's surrender. US sabotaged the peace in 2001 - like it sabotaged the Republic in 2020-2021.20 years ago he arrived in Kabul, promising to get rid of “remnants of Al-Qaeda & Taliban.” Now he is the architect of Taliban’s return to power & the notion that they are not America’s enemy. No remorse? @US4AfghanPeace (video via @mughalbha)
00:00 - Why is the US still holding two Afghans in #Guantanamo, asserting even now that they are a threat to US security, despite the US war in Afghanistan being over? Neither man was detained on the battlefield... 1/3
- “Why are you selling your clothes? I asked an older woman. “Is it to make some extra money?” “No, son,” she replied, “We need to buy bread.” #Afghanistan is in economic free fall since the #Taleban takeover. @AANafgh looks at what can/should be done.
- Afghans tell horror stories of economic collapse: "Exhausted and stunned by the continuous onslaught of crisis and tragedy," a near complete lack of options and yet - and this is so Afghan - still "looking after others even worse off than themselves."
- My favourite picture of this year is from...1996: two very disgruntled girls in front of their closed school. It features in the second report in @AANafgh's series on education, which looks at how Taleban views on schools have changed over time. afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/rig…
- But surely Pakistan knew the possible consequences of its policy to support a Taleban military takeover.The IMF says Iran, Pakistan & Tajikistan will need a combined $900MM to host at least one million Afghan refugees as Afghanistan's economic woes could accelerate refugee exodus. @gzeromedia #GraphicTruth gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-tr…
