AANCast
AANCast brings you the latest research and insights from the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Each episode features some of our most compelling reports, read by AAN authors and editors. Listen to The Daily Hustle, our series of first-person accounts on how everyday life has changed since the Taliban takeover, or tune into The Conversation, where our researchers and guest experts unpack AAN’s most in-depth analysis.
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The Afghanistan Analysts Network is an independent non-profit policy research organisation which brings deep knowledge and experience to increase the understanding of Afghan realities at a time when in depth and on the ground research is increasingly scarce.
Episodes
7 episodes
Afghan Women Spoke: A People’s Tribunal listened
Afghan women may have been silenced in their own country, but in December 2025, they were given a very public platform to tell the world about life under the Taliban – The People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan. The tribunal took place ...
The Conversation: From Taliban morality police to suspected UK war crimes
AAN authors discuss three in depth reports: Kate Clark on what has changed in the year since the introduction of the ‘Vice and Virtue’ law in Afghanistan, Roxanna Shapour discusses a survey on men's views about the restrictions on women and ...
Are blood feuds on the way out? A special report from Khost province
Blood feuds have long been a feature of Afghan society, claiming countless lives and perpetuating conflict that sometimes spans generations. In recent decades, however, this has shifted, particularly as a young Afghans have begun to question tr...
The Conversation: Authors discuss the best of AAN’s reports
Every month AANCast dives into some of our longer reports, to give you a flavour of our in-depth reporting, in discussion with a range of authors. In this episode, we’re looking what to expect from the arrest warrants from the International Cri...
The Daily Hustle: Afghans who fled the Iran-Israel war
In this episide of the The Daily Hustle, we hear from an Afghan who had to flee Iran when conflict between Israel and Iran escalated in June 2025. The Iranian gove...
Losing His Immunity: Former Afghan MP Haji Zaher extradited to US on drug charges
In this episode we look at the dramatic fall of Haji Abdul Zaher Qadir, once a powerful Afghan commander and politician, who is now facing drug trafficking charges in the United States, after being arrested at a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, in Apri...
