Services

  • Video Production Our camera crew, backed by a team of editors and producers, are capable of working under pressure in any environment to produce material in a wide-range of styles and formats. We can set you up with highly experienced camera crews ready to go with their own equipment and feeding facilities for spot-news, features, edited TV packages, press conferences or just a single interview sent to your news room through FTP or quick feeding points if required. We can be your camera-stringer in Afghanistan, a country rarely off the main headlines. Whether you need two-camera shoots, B-roll, man on the street, archive footage, studio or field lighting, landscape images and establishing shots, or moving pictures from the thick of the action, our team can deliver with style and impact.

    We use Sony PAL PD 170 and Sony HD cameras for shooting and Adobe Premier 2.0 and Final Cut Pro for editing but can switch to other systems should your domain require.
  • Photography With local knowledge, our photographers are able to offer a deeper perspective on Afghanistan and yet still produce work to the standards required by the global media – which means we understand the paramount importance of objectivity and honesty in the way we depict events. From spot news to features and commercial pictures our network of talented photographers operating across the country are capable of capturing and filing all angles of the story 24-hours a day. With years of experience documenting Afghanistan's breathtaking landscape, its people and the tumultuous events that tie them together, our photograpers are equipped and trained in using the latest technology to produce images that rival their international counterparts.
  • Reporting Our team of Afghan reporters are native Dari and Pashtu speakers but also proficient in English with the writing skills needed to provide ready-for-print news stories, features and analysis tailored to the needs of your publication. We are all fully-trained and capable journalists, for whom accuracy, balance, responsible sourcing and deadlines are as important as they are for you. Our contacts books are crammed with newsmakers, officials and colorful personalities across Afghanistan, and we can also hook you up with Kabul-based freelance journalists or one of our own staff to string for you on a regular basis. We could also conduct interviews on your behalf, provide color from hostile scenes and contribute quotes, should you need them for your copy.
  • Translation / Fixing / Facilitating Reporting from Afghanistan, gripped as it is in violence and entangled in cultural complexities, can be quite a challenge. A helping hand from Kabul Pressistan will ensure your trip here is successful. Contact us before you set off to get the full lay of the land. Working with Kabul Pressistan during your stay in Afghanistan, you'll be notified about major government announcements that are usually in local languages and can easily slip under the radar of foreign correspondents. We'll alert you to any media advisories and give regular tips-off about incident in any part of the country. Read more
  • Monitoring / Research / Survey For clients seeking a customized solution to researching, studying, and analyzing Afghanistan-related issues -- be it human resources, culture, religion, conflict and the insurgency -- Kabul Pressistan is the answer. Our team of local researchers can get to the heart of the topic, returning comprehensive results tailored for your project, mission or business.

    The Kabul Pressistan Monitoring Service is the best way to keep abreast of the latest trends in Afghan politics, current affairs, the insurgency and counter-insurgency. Our service includes constant monitoring of local politics, government and insurgent groups for mention of any foreign organization -- diplomatic missions, military missions, corporations and brand names – analysied and packaged for each client.

    If you require a more objective look at what the people of Afghanistan are thinking, we offer complete accurate, reliable and fully independent opionion polls and surveys on any issue, in all cities and regions of the country. We can operate to tight deadlines, delivering full statistical breakdowns from broad samples of the population or even reliable focus groups. We can take your questions to representative and clearly documented groups of any size.     Read more

 Monitoring the Activities of High Council for Peace

Kabul Pressistan Monitoring Service offers one of the best ways to keep abreast of the latest trends in Afghanistan's politics developments, current affairs, the insurgency and the counter-insurgency efforts by international forces.

 

This month, Kabul Pressistan began monitoring the activities of Afghanistan's High Council for Peace, President Hamid Karzai's latest program to bring Taliban-linked insurgents in from the cold.

 

Materials produced from our Monitoring include latest news from Afghan media, translated into English; major announcements by the High Council for Peace; and backgrounds of the key reformed insurgents participating in the process and annuoncments and statements released by the High Council for Peace.

 

In addition to translating Afghan news -- from statements by the insurgents to announcements by political groups -- into English, Kabul Pressistan works with local experts to add contextual analysis to all materials/news sent to the clients.

 

Once a client receives a news package, we will provide them with follow-up news and information at their request. Our service also includes monitoring occasional TV debates relating to the High Council for Peace and its activities which is summarized and translated into a package for clients.

 

We'll also be following up gossips relating to the activities of the Council using our wide range of contacts inside and outside the governemnt until reaching the roots of the information.

 

Monitoring Wolesi Jirga, the new Afghan Parliament

Kabul Pressistan Monitoring Service offers one of the best ways to keep abreast of the latest trends in Afghanistan's politics developments, current affairs, the insurgency and the counter-insurgency efforts by international forces.

 

This month, Kabul Pressistan began monitoring the activities of Afghanistan's High Council for Peace, President Hamid Karzai's latest program to bring Taliban-linked insurgents in from the cold.

 

Materials produced from our Monitoring include latest news from Afghan media, translated into English; major announcements by the High Council for Peace; and backgrounds of the key reformed insurgents participating in the process and annuoncments and statements released by the High Council for Peace.

 

In addition to translating Afghan news -- from statements by the insurgents to announcements by political groups -- into English, Kabul Pressistan works with local experts to add contextual analysis to all materials/news sent to the clients.

 

Once a client receives a news package, we will provide them with follow-up news and information at their request. Our service also includes monitoring occasional TV debates relating to the High Council for Peace and its activities which is summarized and translated into a package for clients.

 

We'll also be following up gossips relating to the activities of the Council using our wide range of contacts inside and outside the governemnt until reaching the roots of the information.



News Alerts & Tips

Interior ministry blames some of the killing of the protesters on the guards of the foreign military bases The interior ministry in a statement blames the killing of some of the protesters in today's anti-US riots on the guards of the foreign military bases. Below are a near word-by-word translation of some parts of the official interior ministry statement: "The interior ministry will investigate the killing of some of our countrymen who died by scattered firing of the guards of the foreign military bases ... More

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If you didn't know:

Afghanistan News Calendar
In the Afghanistan news calendar many events and incidents are unexpected such as Taliban suicide bombings, counterinsurgency operations that often lead to scores of civilian deaths and political developments that make big headlines.

But some events that are likely to make news are known to happen. Click here for a news calendar
Chronology of major events in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Afghanistan is hardly off the world's headlines since the United States invaded it to unseat the Taliban from power as a punishment for sheltering Al-Qaeda leaders whom Washington accused of carrying out the 9/11 attacks on its cities.

Since then an international force currently numbering more than 150,000 troops are stationed in the country fighting an insurgency being waged by the remnants of the Taliban regime. The Chronology