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The Heroine –as a Role Model
May 17, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
How would you feel like to be born in a deep poverty and to grow in a slum? Just imagine wearing potato sacks and the local children making fun of you. Wouldn’t you pray and wish ...
The Expected Run-off Presidential Election
May 17, 2014 | Masood Korosh
The final presidential election result was announced after a one-day delay over fraud investigations into the first round of voting to find a successor to Hamid Karzai. Full result ...
The Codified Rules
May 15, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
With the evolution of human societies, the necessity for codified rules and regulations started being felt strongly. With the societies getting more complex and human relations and contacts becoming more recurrent and usual, the necessity of marking ...
Elements Pushing Youths towards Acute Radicalization
May 15, 2014 | Asmatyari
The decades of prevalent conflict and war in Afghanistan shambled everything, ranging from infrastructure to socio-political downfall, reasonless bloodshed followed by enormous people ...
Risky Reserves
May 15, 2014 | Lili Fuhr and Johnny West
Fossil-fuel companies have lobbied hard – and often successfully – against effective climate policies. But a recent report by the environmental research group CDP revealed that at least 29 major ...
Keeping Them Intact!
May 14, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
He was sitting in his grand office; grand in a sense that it was not only big but was full of managers, accountants and other clerical staff who were busy in controlling the matters of his vast business. As I arrived there, he left his chair ...
Do the Candidates Deserve Second Round Elections?
May 14, 2014 | Hamid Bamik
The history of Afghanistan has proved that from the birthday of this country till now most of the King sand Emirs of this country did not work for all the tribes, even those Kings and Emirs did ...
Extremism Begets Terrorism
May 13, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
There is no one who would neglect the severity of the crisis that alarms the civilized, peaceful and modernized world. Humanitarian analysts argue that extremism and terrorism are reciprocal and have badly influenced ...
Day of Mourning Marks the Beginning of Responsibility!
May 13, 2014 | Asmatyari
Undeniably man has rendered hapless before monstrous natural calamities that have ever hit hard civilian population and ruined well built cities. The calamities such as cyclone ...
Bonds of Relativity
May 12, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
The room was full of smoke. There were 8 people who all almost looked like the same. Their faces gave a clear picture of a person who is very sharp, cunning and wicked, with the signs of greed to be read clearly ...
Iraq’s Parliamentary Election May Ease Sectarian Tension
May 12, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Back in 2011, when the last unit of American combatant troops was leaving from the country, it was clear that behind those joyful and cheerful faces deep down something was forcedly ...
The Elixir of Life
May 11, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
When one goes to a graveyard, he sees a lot many graves; some of them in good condition while some in very poor condition. Of these graves, there are some on the side of which there is placed a beautiful stone ...
The Status of Peace Talks and the Next Government
May 11, 2014 | Masood Korosh
The vague destiny of Presidential Election has overshadowed several issues including peace negotiation with Taliban militants. Despite persistence of Mr. President in terms ...
The Tension between Soul and Body
May 11, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
In mystical terms, human soul is stuck in the skeletal cage of the body. The soul is nurtured by virtue and prayers since it is believed to be a heavenly entity, whereas the body is orientated ...
Awareness – A Necessity!
May 10, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
The society that is suffering from the problems of ignorance and hunger cannot have the luxury of dreaming about prosperity and development and, perhaps, it does not have the right, as well. We, though, keep on talking ...
Knowledge without Practice
May 10, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
“Education is the key to the future: You’ve heard it a million times, and it’s not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated ...
Is Citizenship a Right?
May 10, 2014 | Peter Singer
In the United Kingdom, the government has had the legal authority to revoke naturalized Britons’ citizenship since 1918. But, until the terrorist bombings on the London transport system ...
BSA – A Preliminary Challenge for Incoming President
May 08, 2014 | Asmatyari
The run-off between Dr. Abdullah and Abdullah and Dr Ashraf Ghani is due to enter into second round, subsequent to successful completion of first round. Afghanistan passes through numerous problems ...
The Lost Future Of Afghanistan
May 08, 2014 | Dr. Florance Ebrahimi
Child labour is endemic in Afghanistan, despite vaguely written laws that prohibit children younger than 14 from working full time. The regulations, adopted in 2007 and last revised ...
TTP A Divided And Falling House
May 08, 2014 | Manish Rai
The internecine fighting between Pakistan Taliban factions belonging to the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan forced the TTP shura to devote its energies to mediate a ceasefire ...
An Ever-Repeated Story
May 07, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
The story is old and is still continuing. When the electricity was invented and lit up the houses and streets, west proudly presented it as a triumph of their modern education and research. Excluding the ...
Russia and the Silk Road Approach
May 07, 2014 | Ana Palacio
The unraveling of Ukraine has brought to the fore three major foreign policy challenges for the West: the danger of isolating Russia, the conundrum of China’s aloofness, and the pervasive ...
Is Modernity in Conflict with Religion?
May 06, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Perhaps centuries back, when our forefathers bedded down on their roofs in the summer along with their children and stared at the sky and twinkling stars, they would have indoctrinated ...
Freedom of Expression Endangered
May 06, 2014 | Asmatyari
Media performs very important functions in the society. In modern democratic nation‐state system, it is considered as the fourth pillar of the state whose functions are indispensable for ...
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Changes
May 05, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
Politics had never been so much important as it is now in 21st century. The people of Third World countries due to their deprived positions are mostly indulged in political demonstrations and discussions ...
Strategy for the Weak
May 05, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
This is also one of the most repeated ideas that an elephant destroyed a colony of ants so an ant decided to avenge this. It quietly went near the elephant, gently climbed on it and bit ...
Misfortune Hits Afghans Again
May 04, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
The current rainfall in Afghanistan seems to be turning into a curse than a blessing. It is believed that the countries and the people with limited resources and unpreparedness seem to suffer more ...
A Religious Face with Criminal Deeds
May 04, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Last week, Afghan Newspapers carried the report of a sexual assault carried out by a cleric in Kunduz province. The rape victim was a 10-year-old girl who was learning Islamic subjects ...
Grave Condition of Afghan laborers
May 04, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Just a day before when hundreds of Afghans were celebrating the International Labor Day, 16 people lost their lives in a tragic incident in a coal mine in Darre Yousuf district ...
True Writing
May 03, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
If I do not write whatever I am writing now, does it make any difference? It may not make any difference and the situation may still be the same whether something is written or not ...
Inventing the Life!
May 03, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
A fly always sits on a sweet thing. It can be better explained by a zoologist but I am sure it has a strong sense of smell as it soon finds out a hidden sweet thing and comes ...
Role and Status of Intellectuals
May 01, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
It is a crystal clear fact that throughout the decades the intellectuals and writers have not been given the position and the status they deserve. We hear that during the monarchies and ...
Rational Education Vital to Pluralistic Society
May 01, 2014 | Asmatyari
Our introduction and association with hopelessness is as old as our miseries. There were days when our streets were bright, our gardens were full of fruit-bearing trees, our days were calm ...
Hope and Certainty
May 01, 2014 |
Our introduction and association with hopelessness is as old as our miseries. There were days when our streets were bright, our gardens were full of fruit-bearing trees, our days were calm ...
Afghanistan Following 1978
April 30, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
When I was a child, my mother was talking about the bodies torn to bloody shreds with fighters’ shells, thunder of the guns with the shrieks of the wounded populace writhing in ...