SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Important analyses of the US War on terrorism in Afghanistan, and its implications for South Asia:

For articles in South Asian media on the issue, look at our links pages for newspapers and magazines.

International media:

• The New Delhi based think tank Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, IPCS, publishes analytical articles on the development in Afghanistan.

• Another website which offers lots of material on Afghanistan, including links to recent articles in World media, is the Institute for Afghan Studies, based at Phoenix, Arizona, U S.

• ZNet keeps on providing detailed coverage and analysis on the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and publishes material on the ongoing effects of the war.

• Guide to Afghanistan’s Powerbrokers. Informative BBC in-depth guide on the new key powerbrokers in Afghanistan following the demise of the Taliban.

• The agreement on provisional arrangements in Afghanistan pending the re-establishment of permanent government institutions. The full text from the the peace conference in Bonn, including the ministerial list, presented by the German Foreign Office.

• Guardian Unlimited, The UK's most popular newspaper website, offers a Weblog Special: Afghanistan, with links to articles on Afghanistan and the war in newspapers, magazines, radio och TV broadcasts from all over the world, including links to a wide variety of news sources.

• Stange Victory: A critical appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan War. Extensive analysis by Carl Conetta, at the Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute, MA, USA. 30 January 2002.

Swedish newspapers (in Swedish language):

• Svenska Afghanistankommittén, SAK, offers several good links to current news and development in Afghanistan

• Afghanistan står inför ett vägskäl. Interview with Francesc Vendrell, EU representative in Afghanistan, on the present situation in the country. Gellert Tamas, for Olof Palmes Internationella Centrum. December 2002.

• ”Lägre siffra över civila offer i ny rapport om bombkriget”. Omvärldsbilder 28 January, 2002, presents a report by the Project on Defense Alternatives, which shows lower caualty figures for the bomb war in Afghanistan than what Prof Mark Herold´s Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan had shown earlier.

• I skuggornas rike härskar bin Ladin. Lisbeth Lindeborg, political scientist at Marburg University, Germany, reviews the book ”Osama bin Laden und der internationale Terrorismus” by Michael Pohly and Khalid Durán. Sydsvenska Dagbladet 21 November 2001.

Reference literature:

• Manohar Book Services, New Delhi, India, has published a list with useful background material literature on Afghanistan, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. See the full list.