Mr. Haroun Mir This is Me

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1. 1. anandgopal.com

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   Published on: 6/18/2008   Last Visited: 7/27/2008

   There are both local and global factors behind food insecurity, says Haroun Mir, policy researcher at the Afghanistan Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
   
   Afghanistan does not have a diversity of sources of food, Mir says.Despite efforts to resuscitate its local agriculture, most food is imported from neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Iran.This makes the food market very susceptible to fluctuations in food supply.For example, "Iran purchased the regional surpluses of food to stock its own strategic food reserves, prompting a regional price hike," Mir says.
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   While most analysts don't expect this most recent law to pass, there is a real threat that these moves will fuel religious conservatives and make the Taliban's ideas more acceptable, according to Haroun Mir cofounder and deputy director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies, based in Kabul.
   
   "Even if the law doesn't pass, it will provide legitimacy for the Taliban by approving of Taliban-era laws," Mr. Mir says.This will bring together the fundamentalists, he adds, and put moderates on the defensive - creating a propitious climate for the proliferation of Taliban ideology.
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   The soap operas are enormously popular with the Afghan public because of the overlap between Indian and Afghan culture, Mir says.

2. 2. www.wsws.org

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   Published on: 7/21/2008   Last Visited: 8/21/2008

   Haroun Mir, of the Afghanistan Centre for Research and Policy Studies, commented that the Taliban appeared to be using the same tactics as the CIA-backed Mujaheddin adopted against the Soviet army in the 1980s.

3. 3. www.e-ariana.com

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   Published on: 7/29/2008   Last Visited: 8/1/2008

   The loss of confidence in Karzai is compounded by a lack of candidates with the background and national standing to defeat him, according to Haroun Mir, founder of the Afghanistan Center for Research and Policy Studies.
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   Possible contenders such as Afghan native Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the UN and former envoy to Afghanistan, have been out of the country too long to understand the current challenges, Mir said.Others are tainted by human-rights abuses during the civil war, he said.