Native Pashto and Dari analysts watch Afghan television, radio, news sites, Telegram, Facebook, YouTube and X, verify what matters, and tell your team in plain English what is being said, who is saying it, whether it is true and whether it is spreading. Every source is graded, and every judgment is stated with its confidence.
Open-source research (OSINT) is research built only from publicly available information. Media monitoring is the daily watch of television, radio, print, online and social media. Disinformation analysis identifies content that is deliberately false or manipulated, who is behind it and how far it has spread. Ariana Nexus delivers all three in Pashto, Dari and 22 more Afghan languages, reported in English.
Most of Afghanistan is offline, so monitoring cannot stop at social media. Every media type has a machine step and a human step.
Inside the country, independent reporting has thinned. Outside it, exile newsrooms, diaspora channels and regional media now carry much of what is said to and about the Afghan people in Pashto and Dari. Monitoring that covers only social media, or only one side of the border, misses most of the story.
There is no U.S. certification for Pashto or Dari open-source analysts. So we set the standard: we train and assess our own analysts against a written standard, in the specific language variety each one works in, and hold every product to it.
All 24 Afghan languages, in three service levels, and 12 more languages in which Afghanistan is reported. Everything is delivered in English.
A firm led by alumni and scholars of leading universities, with native analysts assessed in the language variety they work in. Not bilinguals: researchers.
Priced by scope, languages and tempo, never per article or per alert.
Pashto and Dari media monitoring is the daily watch of Afghan television, radio, newspapers, news sites and social and messaging platforms in Afghanistan’s two official languages, reported in English. Ariana Nexus analysts read and listen in the original, grade each source, verify what matters and deliver a morning summary by theme, with flash alerts when something significant breaks.
OSINT, or open-source intelligence, is intelligence produced from publicly available information to answer a specific requirement. Ariana Nexus is not an intelligence agency: we conduct open-source research to the same discipline, using only public sources, preserving every item as evidence and stating each judgment with its likelihood and confidence. The difference is that native Pashto and Dari analysts do the research in the original languages.
We agree a source register with each client. It typically covers national and provincial TV and radio, including TOLOnews, Shamshad and the state broadcaster RTA; international Pashto and Dari services such as BBC Pashto, BBC Persian and Radio Azadi; exile newsrooms such as Afghanistan International, Amu TV and Hasht-e Subh; official channels of the de facto authorities; and public Telegram channels, Facebook pages, YouTube, X, TikTok and Instagram accounts.
Before 7:00 a.m. in your time zone across the Americas, and at an agreed hour for clients in Europe, 365 days a year. Afghanistan runs eight and a half hours ahead of Washington, D.C., in summer and nine and a half in winter, so its news day is well underway, verified and written up before your working day starts. Flash alerts arrive as events break, by the priority you set.
Not reliably. Pashto and Dari are low-resource languages for AI: speech-to-text and translation tools miss dialect, Romanized spellings, religious and legal vocabulary, sarcasm and coded terms. We use AI to sort and transcribe at speed, but a native analyst reads every item in the original before anything is reported, and we test the tools against our analysts’ readings.
Each item is captured, hashed and dated before analysis, following the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations. Analysts then test where, when and by whom it was made: reverse image and video search, geolocation against satellite imagery, chronolocation from shadows and weather, metadata, and language cues such as dialect, accent and script. The finding states which tests carried it. A common case is recycled Afghan war footage presented as new.
Misinformation is false content shared without intent to deceive. Disinformation is false or manipulated content spread deliberately. Propaganda is persuasive messaging from an interested party, and it can be true, false or selective. We label content only after testing it, and we say who is behind a campaign only with a stated confidence level.
Yes, for threat and narrative analysis. Analysts monitor the official statements of the de facto authorities (the Taliban) and the public output of armed groups, including Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), in Pashto, Dari and other languages. We never republish or amplify it, graphic material is handled under an analyst-safety protocol, and our products describe content rather than reproduce it.
No. We do not monitor individuals or lawful speech. We track scams and fraud aimed at the Afghan people and Afghan communities abroad, and report false health and emergency claims in aggregate so agencies can publish accurate information. We never identify or report community members, U.S. persons or anyone else, and we do not build profiles of private individuals. We scope work for U.S. public bodies to respect the First Amendment and, for federal clients, Executive Order 14149.
All 24 Afghan languages, in three service levels. Pashto and Dari are monitored daily in their main dialects, from Kandahari Pashto to the Kabuli, Herati and Hazaragi dialects of Dari. Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Balochi, Pashayi and Aimaq are covered on a set schedule. The other 17, from Brahui to Wakhi, Tregami and the other Nuristani and Pamir languages, are mostly spoken rather than published, so we cover their audio, video and documents on request.
Yes. Afghanistan is reported in Urdu in Pakistan, in Persian in Iran, in Russian across Central Asia, and in Chinese, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew elsewhere in the region. Our analysts also work in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese for European and Latin American coverage and diaspora sources, and report everything in English.
Yes, with clearable analysts: U.S.-citizen analysts, located in the United States, who can be sponsored for a clearance. We work directly for agencies or as a subcontractor to prime contractors, are implementing NIST SP 800-171 controls with a CMMC Level 2 assessment in preparation, and are registered in SAM.gov (UEI M2UDMUDFXGL9, CAGE 1Z3A3).
We sign your NDA before you share a requirement. Research runs from managed, non-attributable infrastructure, so neither your inquiry nor our analysts are exposed. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is logged, client material is never used to train AI models, and at the end we return or delete material as the contract directs and confirm it in writing. Monitoring analysts are not named publicly, for their safety.
Every source carries an Admiralty grade for reliability and credibility. Every judgment uses the likelihood terms of Intelligence Community Directive 203, from “almost no chance” to “almost certain,” and carries a separate confidence level of high, moderate or low. When the evidence cannot settle a question, the report says so.
By scope, languages and tempo, never per article or per alert. Engagements usually start with a scoping call and a four-week baseline: a source register, a narrative map and a first assessment. From there the service runs as a subscription, a fixed-scope research task or a crisis surge cell. We work across all 50 states, in Canada and in Europe.
Share the question, the languages and the deadline. A senior member of the team replies within one business day, and we sign your NDA before you send a requirement.
