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August 20, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Taliban to immediately cease harassing and attacking journalists for their work, allow women journalists to broadcast the news, and permit the media to operate freely and independently. Since August 15, members of the Taliban have barred at least two female journalists from ... <a title="Taliban take 2 female state TV anchors off-air in Afghanistan, bash 2 journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/taliban-take-2-female-state-tv-anchors-off-air-in-afghanistan-bash-2-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Taliban take 2 female state TV anchors off-air in Afghanistan, bash 2 journalists">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Keith Locke After the fall of Kabul, the obvious question for New Zealanders is whether we should ever have joined the American war in Afghanistan. Labour and National politicians, who sent our Special Forces there, will say yes. The Greens, who opposed the war from the start, will say no. Back in 2001, ... <a title="New Zealand should never have joined the war in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/new-zealand-should-never-have-joined-the-war-in-afghanistan/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand should never have joined the war in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
Opinion by Najib Hedayat, courtesy of MakeLemonade.nz. EDITOR’S NOTE: Najib Hedayat came to New Zealand as an Afghan teenage refugee, and later graduated with a master’s commerce degree at the University of Canterbury. He completed much of his postgraduate thesis in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), a unit created ... <a title="OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/op-ed-reasons-for-the-afghan-government-collapse-najib-hedayat/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2021
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, LIVE at midday Thursday where they will analyse the crisis, the tragedy, unfolding in Afghanistan, including an apparent intelligence failure. Unanswered questions, to be considered, include: Why were United States intelligence unable to predict how poised and ... <a title="Live@Midday Thursday: Buchanan and Manning on Afghanistan – Intelligence Failures a Prelude to a Taliban Takeover" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/livemidday-thursday-buchanan-and-manning-on-afghanistan-intelligence-failures-a-prelude-to-a-taliban-takeover/" aria-label="Read more about Live@Midday Thursday: Buchanan and Manning on Afghanistan – Intelligence Failures a Prelude to a Taliban Takeover">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2021
By Shanil Singh in Suva Immigration Secretary Yogesh Karan has confirmed that 13 Fijians who are currently stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last Sunday are safe and officials are working to repatriate them as soon as possible. Karan said two worked for private contractors and the other 11 were with international organisations. He ... <a title="13 Fijians trapped in Afghanistan safe as Suva plans to repatriate them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/13-fijians-trapped-in-afghanistan-safe-as-suva-plans-to-repatriate-them/" aria-label="Read more about 13 Fijians trapped in Afghanistan safe as Suva plans to repatriate them">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Azadah Raz Mohammad, The University of Melbourne and Jenna Sapiano, Monash University As the Taliban has taken control of the country, Afghanistan has again become an extremely dangerous place to be a woman. Even before the fall of Kabul on Sunday, the situation was rapidly deteriorating, exacerbated by the planned withdrawal of all ... <a title="With the Taliban return, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/with-the-taliban-return-20-years-of-progress-for-women-looks-set-to-disappear-overnight/" aria-label="Read more about With the Taliban return, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Journalism Research and Education Association of Australia (JERAA) has urged the Australian government to make a strong commitment to supporting journalists and media personnel in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of international forces. JERAA said in a statement today it had endorsed the calls of Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance ... <a title="JERAA calls for urgent action to support Afghan journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/18/jeraa-calls-for-urgent-action-to-support-afghan-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about JERAA calls for urgent action to support Afghan journalists">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
RNZ News Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan shows “a catastrophic failure of intelligence in Western foreign policy” and to say that she is pessimistic about the country’s future would be an understatement. Taliban insurgents have entered Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani has fled Afghanistan, bringing the Islamist ... <a title="Former PM Helen Clark says Taliban control ‘massive step backwards’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/former-pm-helen-clark-says-taliban-control-massive-step-backwards/" aria-label="Read more about Former PM Helen Clark says Taliban control ‘massive step backwards’">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says work to get New Zealanders out of Afghanistan has ramped up, as commercial options become unavailable. Yesterday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was aware of 17 New Zealanders who were in Afghanistan, but Ardern said that number is now believed to be closer to ... <a title="NZ ramps up efforts to get 30 citizens out of Kabul as Taliban take capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/nz-ramps-up-efforts-to-get-30-citizens-out-of-kabul-as-taliban-take-capital/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ramps up efforts to get 30 citizens out of Kabul as Taliban take capital">Read more</a>
