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The Solution for Kabul’s Diseased Lungs
January 23,2020 | Sayed Sameer Sadat
From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat to health and climate. Air pollution specifically outdoor air pollution which is ...
All is not Well Under Globalisation
January 23,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
In today’s world globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation is gaining growing attention as a strategy for survival, competition and growth. True economic globalisation involves a
How to Ensure Effective Governance
January 22,2020 | M Hashimi
Favorable, fair, and effective governance is clearly one of the most dominant factors for sustainable development. Today good governance is also a key to sustainable development. Honest and ...
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
January 22,2020 | Andrea Komlosy
The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility – and for many, the fear – that machines will eventually replace human work. They will not only ...
Fulfilling the Responsibility of Being True Human Being
January 21,2020 | Asim
Every society is recognized from the types of its problems and the nature of its values and habits of its people. The great societies of the world that achieved the ...
A Data Revolution for All
January 21,2020 | Michael Froman and Rajiv Shah
Science has revolutionized medicine and agriculture over the last 100 years, particularly for the poorest of the poor. Achievements ranging from the treatment of hookworm to the ...
Unlimited Potentials and Broad Prospects for China-Afghanistan Cooperation
January 20,2020 | Wang Yu
There is a similar saying in both Chinese and Pashto, ‘as you sow, so shall you reap.’ On 20 January1955, China and Afghanistan established diplomatic relations. In the over 2,000 years ...
The Geopolitical Feature of Peace and War in Afghanistan
January 20,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Though there have been various wars and conflicts in the world, the features of conflicts in Afghanistan seem unique. For example, many of post-colonial African and Latin America ...
Afghans’ Concerns over US-Taliban Likely Peace Agreement
January 19,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
The US and Taliban representatives, who have restarted their negotiations in the Qatari capital of Doha, are close to signing a peace deal. However, the talks were held behind closed doors and ...
Closing the SDG Gap
January 19,2020 | Kevin Watkins
As global business and political leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they should ask themselves one big question: Will the world achieve the ...
We Are As Strong As We Are United
January 18,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The very simple definition of unity is act of joining together and living together under a nondiscriminatory political system in order to achieve national ...
Hostages of History
January 18,2020 | Carl Bildt
During the recent flare-up between the United States and Iran, US President Donald Trump tweeted that he was prepared to bomb “52 Iranian sites (representing the ...
Why We Need to Develop a Critical Research Culture
January 16,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
As a consequence of long conflicts in Afghanistan, the research and academic activities are faced many quantative and qualitative challenges. During the ...
Consequences of British policy in South Asia
January 16,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
The consequence of the constitutional advance from the Reforms of 1919 to the India Act of 1935 encouraged, in the Muslim majority provinces, powerful centrifugal forces based on community and regional identity. However, the basic parameters of Muslim politics ...
The Challenges of Winter Season in Afghanistan
January 15,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The natural challenges are usually high in Afghanistan but it is higher in the winter seasons. These challenges consist of road blockage, snowstorm, snow-slippage, human ...
Trump’s Near Miss with Iran
January 15,2020 | Elizabeth Drew
The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy. The main ...
How Ancient Silk Road Contributed to the Ancient Civilizations
January 14,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
Trade and cultural exchanges played a crucial role in the development of ancient civilization. Besides commercial give-and-take, the historical Silk Road was a route ...
Central Banks Face a Year of Mounting Challenges
January 14,2020 | Mohamed A. El-Erian
After a year that involved one of the biggest U-turns in recent monetary-policy history, central banks are now hoping for peace and quiet in 2020. This is particularly true for the ...
Causes of Administrative Corruption
January 13,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
There is decisive unanimity that corruption is the mother of all problems in Afghanistan. According to experts, after insecurity, the corruption is the second most ...
The Inequality Debate We Need
January 13,2020 | Kenneth Rogoff
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more than two billion have no ...
What Is OHS? & Why It Is Important to Know?
January 12,2020 | Sayed Nasrat Hashemi
OHS means “Occupational Health & Safety”, the three words that either our society is not familiarized with or those who are familiar, ignore it or can not do anything about it, since we were ...
The End of the Free-Market Paradigm
January 12,2020 | Diane Coyle
The 2020s will be the decade when the idea that economic problems can be “left to the market” to solve is finally put to rest – after some 40 years during which that belief has caused untold damage to society and . . .
Degrading Treatment as Human Rights Violation
January 11,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
People sustain inhuman treatment in times of war and peace across the world and their rights and “inherent dignity” are violated in one way or another. Although there is a set of globally accepted moral and ...
The Demonization of Journalists Must End
January 11,2020 | Leon Willems
Five years ago this month, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and, in a nightmare lasting just minutes, killed 12 ...
SAARC as a platform of regional co-operation
January 09,2020 | Rajkumar Singh
The countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) represents 1.47 billion people, which is around 25 per cent of the world population. The inspiring ...
Trump’s Gift to China
January 09,2020 | Minxin Pei
US President Donald Trump’s decision to order the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander, has raised the ...
Kabul Streets: the Kingdom of Social Criminals
January 08,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
As result of long war and rising poverty, the phenomena of social crimes have increased in all large cities of Afghanistan, but the Kabul is considered as the Kingdom of social ...
The Assassin’s False Creed
January 08,2020 | Nina L. Khrushcheva
For an armchair warrior like US President Donald Trump, who received five deferments from serving in Vietnam, assassinations must look like a foreign-policy silver bullet. You take ...
The Historical Development of Constitution in Afghanistan
January 07,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
One of the greatest human achievements in the field of social and political life is invention and enactment of rights and laws which largely regulated ...
The Inequality Debate We Need
January 07,2020 | Kenneth Rogoff
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more ...
Afghan Peace Talk Red Line
January 06,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In the eve of the new round of face-to-face talks with Taliban in Doha, Qatar, concerns are raised among many ordinary Afghans, particularly women, against whom many restricted ...
Suleimani’s Death Likely to Jeopardize Regional Stability
January 06,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
The surprise killing of Iranian Major General Qassim Suleimani and a powerful Iraqi militia commander and government official Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis have ...
Why No National Consensus on the Afghan peace process?
January 05,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The Talks between United States and Taliban is supposed to resume in next few days after it was suspended for the second time following a suicide attack on a US ...
How Ownership Concentration Is Happening, and Why It Matters
January 05,2020 | Alissa Amico
If the global economy were a chess game, few pieces would be left on the board. Most would be relegated to the role of bystanders, observing a concentration of ...
The Positive and Negative Factors of Democratization in Afghanistan
January 04,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In the last two decades, it is the fourth time that political power is peacefully transited on the basis of democratic rule without uses of weapon in Afghanistan ...