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This part of the country guidance includes the common analysis:

It provides analysis on the following elements:

1. Actors of persecution and serious harm

Preliminary remarks

Overview: areas of control

1.1. The Afghan State and pro-government elements

1.2. Anti-Government Elements

1.3. Other non-State actors

2. Refugee status

Preliminary remarks

Analysis of particular profiles

2.1. Members of the security forces and pro-government militias

2.2. Government officials, including judges, prosecutors and judicial staff; and those perceived as supporting the government

2.3. Individuals working for foreign military troops or perceived as supporting them

2.4. Religious leaders

2.5. Members of insurgent groups and civilians perceived as supporting them

2.6. Persons fearing forced recruitment by armed groups

2.7. Educational personnel

2.8. Humanitarian workers and healthcare professionals

2.9. Journalists, media workers and human rights defenders

2.12. Individuals perceived to have transgressed moral codes

2.13. Individuals perceived as ‘Westernised’

2.15. Persons living with disabilities and persons with severe medical issues

2.16. Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy

2.17. Ethnic and religious minorities

2.18. Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes

2.19. Individuals accused of ordinary crimes

2.20. Individuals who were born in Iran or Pakistan and/or who lived there for a long period of time

3. Subsidiary protection

3.1. Article 15(a) QD

3.2. Article 15(b) QD

3.3. Article 15(c) QD

3.3.1. Preliminary remarks

3.3.2. Armed conflict (international or internal)

3.3.3. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’

3.3.4. Indiscriminate violence

3.3.5. Serious and individual threat

3.3.6. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person

3.3.7. Nexus/’by reason of’

4. Actors of protection

4.2. Parties or organisations

5. Internal protection alternative

5.1. Preliminary remarks

5.2. Part of the country

5.4. Travel and admittance

5.5. Reasonableness to settle

5.5.1. General situation

5.5.2. Individual circumstances

5.5.3. Conclusions on particular profiles

6. Exclusion

6.1. Preliminary remarks

6.2. Exclusion grounds

6.2.1. Crime against peace, war crime or crime against humanity

6.2.2. Serious (non-political) crime

6.2.3. Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN

6.2.4. Danger to the community or the security of the Member State

6.3. Relevant circumstances

6.3.1. Past conflicts (1979-2001)

6.3.2. Current conflicts (2001-ongoing)

6.3.3 Criminality

6.4 Guidance with regard to Afghanistan

6.4.1. Article 12(2)(a) QD and Article 17(1)(a) QD

6.4.2. Article 12(2)(b) QD and Article 17(1)(b) QD

6.4.3. Article 12(2)(c) QD and Article 17(1)(c) QD