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Successive Attacks on West of Kabul
April 25, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
After a few weeks of relative calm, once again Daesh Takfiri terrorist group targeted west of Kabul as security forces have apparently failed to protect ...
Who Pay the Prices? Voters or Candidates?
April 24, 2018 | Hamid Bamik
In a country like Afghanistan where relationships between voters and candidates are defined top-to-down not down-to-top, it is easy for candidates to get the votes and ...
China, Afghanistan and United Nations: Work Together to Create a Community of Shared Future for Mankind
April 24, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
On April 22nd, I hosted a special reception in the Chinese Embassy and invited more than 50 colleagues from the United Nations system in Afghanistan to participate. H.E. Deputy ...
New Waves of Criticism over slow voter registration
April 23, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In few last days, Kabul has been witnessing new waves of criticisms and concerns over low participation of people in voter registration ahead of parliamentary and district ...
China’s Concern about Regional Issues
April 23, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Chinese officials have been constantly reiterating the principle of win-win cooperation and smile diplomacy between China and the rest of the world. To view China ...
Missile Strikes Are Not a Syria Strategy
April 22, 2018 | Richard N. Haass
NEW YORK – “A perfectly executed strike…Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished.” So tweeted US President Donald Trump just hours ...
China and Afghanistan are “Heart to Heart” Brothers, Saving the Heart and the Children Admits of No Delay
April 21, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
I have been very busy these few days, accompanying the Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) Medical Team to carry out a series of medical treatment activities in Kabul...
The Saudi Export of Ultra-conservatism in the Era of MbS - an Update
April 21, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Edited remarks at The Middle East and the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University and the...
The West’s Crisis of Confidence
April 21, 2018 | Carl Bildt
In an age defined by US President Donald Trump’s rage, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revisionism, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unbridled ...
Election in the Air of Mistrust
April 19, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Public will, which is demonstrated through election, constitutes the cornerstone of democracy. To form a civil society where people be able to exercise their rights and ...
The “Next Eleven” and the World Economy
April 19, 2018 | Jim O’Neill
On a recent holiday in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, I couldn’t resist thinking about these countries’ economic potential and ongoing policy challenges ...
Repeated Clashes in the Vicinity of Durand Line
April 18, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Armed Clashes and missile volleys havebeen frequentlyreportingin few last yearsfrom the vicinity of Durand Line provinces. Last Sunday, again adeadly fighting broke out ...
Closing the Tech Sector’s Gender Gap
April 18, 2018 | Gillian Tans
I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognize that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority...
Fifty Shades of Trump
April 17, 2018 | Elizabeth Drew
Last week was a most unusual one for President Donald Trump’s administration. There was no high-level firing: the only dismissal of any note was that of the White ...
Why Markets Can’t Cool the Planet
April 17, 2018 | Ivan Ascher
With global temperatures rising at an alarming rate, the race is on to lower the world’s consumption of fossil fuels and accelerate the adoption of greener ...
The Syrian Time Bomb
April 16, 2018 | Joschka Fischer
The ongoing conflict in Syria has much in common with the Thirty Years’ War, which devastated the heart of Europe – particularly the German city of Magdeburg ...
Rolling back militancy: Bangladesh looks to Saudi in a twist of irony
April 16, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Bangladesh, in a twist of irony, is looking to Saudi Arabia to fund a $ 1 billion plan to build hundreds of mosques and religious centres to counter militant Islam that ...
Revitalization of Villages in China
April 15, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Rural development is one of the remarkable achievements of the Chinese government which seeks to balance the economic development and bridge the gap between ...
Turning Qatar into an Island: Saudi cuts off its nose to spite its face
April 15, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
There’s a cutting-off-the-nose-to-spite-the face aspect to a Saudi plan to turn Qatar into an island by digging a 60-kilometre ocean channel through the two ...
Taliban’s Concern about Civilian Casualties
April 14, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Civilian casualty is one of the most painful aspects of conflicts in the region and Afghanistan. Non-combatants, mainly women and children, have sustained fatalities ...
A Cautionary Tale for Media Regulators
April 14, 2018 | Anya Schiffrin
To understand the possible consequences of US President Donald Trump’s constant denunciations of the press, one need look no further than Ecuador ...
How to Save Women and Newborns During Childbirth
April 12, 2018 | Katherine Semrau and Atul Gawande
tennis star Serena Williams’ harrowing story of life-threatening complications after the birth of her daughter reminds us that childbirth is potentially ...
He Rise of Silicon China
April 12, 2018 | Marion Laboure, Haiyang Zhang, and Juergen Braunstein
In the future, if not already, the Silicon Valleys of artificial intelligence (AI) will be in China. The tech firms Xiaomi, Baidu, Didi Chuxing, Meituan, and Toutiao are ...
Pak-Afghan Relations- Time to Break the Ice
April 11, 2018 | Dr. Hussain Yasa
On Friday, April 06, 2018 Pak Premier had a full day visit to Kabul where in addition to the President Ghani and Chief Executive Adbullah Abdullah, he met Gulbuddin ...
The Significance of Intellectuals
April 11, 2018 | Dilawar Sherzai
Through most part of history, the intellectuals and writers have not been given their due position and respect. It can be observed that during the monarchies ...
A Formula for Health Equity
April 10, 2018 | Agnes Binagwaho
Imagine a country where some 90% of the population is covered by health insurance, more than 90% of those with HIV are on a consistent drug regime, and 93% of children ...
Closing the Global Economy’s New Digital Divide
April 10, 2018 | Shamel Azmeh
From cloud computing to artificial intelligence, technology is beginning to revolutionize how the world economy functions. But while these shifts are enriching ...
Will blame games end between Afghanistan and Pakistan?
April 09, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Pakistani Prime Minister, ShahidKhaqan Abbasi, has traveled to Afghanistan and met with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Officer ...
Learning from Martin Luther About Technological Disruption
April 09, 2018 | Nicholas Davis
Five hundred years ago this week, a little-known priest and university lecturer in theology did something unremarkable for his time: he nailed a petition ...
When Will Tech Disrupt Higher Education?
April 08, 2018 | Kenneth Rogoff
In the early 1990s, at the dawn of the Internet era, an explosion in academic productivity seemed to be around the corner. But the corner never appeared. Instead ...
Trump’s Trade Confusion
April 08, 2018 | Joseph E. Stiglitz
The trade skirmish between the United States and China on steel, aluminum, and other goods is a product of US President Donald Trump’s scorn for ...
Moderating Islam: Saudi Prince Mohammed walks on shaky ground
April 07, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has dazzled international media and public opinion by lifting some restrictions on women’s rights, holding out hope for the ...
US and Afghanistan – Pushy Peace Seekers
April 07, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
The reconciliation process has been a rocky road for Afghanistan and the conflicts between Kabul government and the Taliban escalated in recent months. The spike ...
Sustaining Progress in Transition Countries
April 05, 2018 | Cihan Sultanoğlu
In the World Bank’s most recent “Doing Business” report, half of the Eastern European and Central Asian countries included in the global ...
Will China Really Supplant US Economic Hegemony?
April 05, 2018 | Kenneth Rogoff
As China and the United States engage in their latest trade tussle, most economists take it as given that China will achieve global economic supremacy in ...