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Strong Call and Weary Look to Release of Ghani Baradar

Strong Call and Weary Look to Release of Ghani Baradar

September 22, 2013 | Masood Korosh

Seemingly, the bone-crunching way of peace process has reached to the front door of house of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the ex-second in command of Taliban militants. He is deemed moderate ...

Filling the Blanks

Filling the Blanks

September 22, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

He belonged to one of the remote villages of north where life is still as slow as it was many centuries before. Houses are still made of mud, roads are unpaved, water is brought from well and they have ...

Using Technology is Crime

Using Technology is Crime

September 22, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zai

Women have been falling victims throughout the history, by extremist families, tribes or regimes, for being labeled committing different crimes, such as attending school, going to ...

Policewomen Suffer Insurgency

Policewomen Suffer  Insurgency

September 21, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

The death of Lieutenant Negar, a top policewoman, in the Taliban heartlands of the southern Afghanistan left her family and friends in tearful tragedy. Her untimely death was a very sad incident and a ...

It is the Character that Speaks!

It is the Character  that Speaks!

September 21, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

More than two months before, the news which was much dispersed and given extraordinary coverage on the international media was about a blasphemous comment of a teenager and his punishment by a ...

Election – a Key to Prosperity

Election – a Key to Prosperity

September 19, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

Afghans are waiting impatiently with gleam of hope and desire sparkling in their eyes for the presidential election of 2014. They are longing to breathe a sigh of relief in the presence of democracy ...

Afghanistan - The Evolving Election Scenario

Afghanistan - The Evolving Election Scenario

September 19, 2013 | Dr. Hussain Yasa

Nominations for the Afghan presidency opened on September 16, 2013 and with this milestone the country formally entered the pre-election period. Over the next seven months Afghanistan will be turned into one ...

Taliban: An Evolving Insurgency

Taliban: An Evolving Insurgency

September 18, 2013 | Bahram Rafie

Taliban militants consider the group as an Islamic political movement fighting for restoration of Sharia in the country through political power. However, the group is increasingly turning into an ...

Illusionary Enemy and Enemy Making

Illusionary Enemy and Enemy Making

September 18, 2013 | Jawad Kankash

After the championship of Afghanistan in SAFF soccer match, I heard a very hurting utterance. It was said that the victory of Afghanistan was the plot of the United States in order to pervert the focus of ...

Dawn of Democracy, Death of Culture

Dawn of Democracy, Death of Culture

September 17, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

I was engrossed in the gradual death of Islamic culture and country’s tradition, by a highly fashionable style of an Afghan girl wearing Chinese sunglasses, mini-skirt dress, tight ...

Bringing a Real Change

Bringing a Real Change

September 17, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

After a long war of three decades, flowers of hope blossomed all around and thus many people returned to their homeland with a hope of peace, prosperity and honor and dignity of living in one’s own ...

“Strengthening Voices for Democracy”

“Strengthening Voices for Democracy”

September 16, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai

September 15 is celebrated throughout the world as International Day of Democracy. Democracy, in the modern world of ours, is considered as the best form of government and most of the countries ...

Four Reasons Why Afghanistan’s Elections Will Go Right

Four Reasons Why Afghanistan’s Elections Will Go Right

September 16, 2013 | Bahram Rafie

With the 2014 presidential election in Afghanistan in sight, many express concerns that there may be a fraudulent election in 2014 or even the transition process may get derailed as there are efforts by certain ...

A Pashto Song

A Pashto Song

September 15, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah

Whenever I listen to this song, I can’t stop my tears fill my eyes and gush out of them and it leaves my heart sad for quite some time. I don’t know the singer of this song but it has ...

I Am a Girl – Shroud is My Dignity

I Am a Girl – Shroud is My Dignity

September 15, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

I am told to embrace the life however the fate brings to me. My tear should not roll down my cheek when an angry fist touches my fair and feeble body or if I am painfully bludgeoned to death. I am ...

Handover of Chemical Weapons Wouldn’t End Syrian Crisis

Handover of Chemical Weapons Wouldn’t End Syrian Crisis

September 15, 2013 | Masood Korosh

It seems that the military option, at least for now, has been put off the table. It has allowed the world to breath in relief as all are worried about the broader consequence of another war in the tensed ...

Thank You, National Football Team!

Thank You, National Football Team!

September 14, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

It was quite unlucky for me that a busy day in office did not let me watch the match but as I left the office and was passing by a row of nearby residential blocks, I saw a number of children clapping ...

State, Government and the Governed

State, Government  and the Governed

September 14, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai

In today’s modern world of ours, human beings live within states that do not only differentiate them from one another politically but also strive, at least in theory, to facilitate ...

12 Years Since 9/11

12 Years Since 9/11

September 12, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai

It has been 12 years since the unforgettable incident of 9/11, which is thought to have changed the course of world order and consequently started 'the war against terrorism'. The country in ...

Security without Nuclear Weapons is not an Utopian Dream

Security without Nuclear Weapons is not an Utopian Dream

September 12, 2013 | By Erlan Idrissov

August 29 marks the UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests and is a timely reminder of the need to maintain international efforts to continue nuclear disarmament.  The ultimate goal of ...

Virtues and Happiness!

Virtues and Happiness!

September 12, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah

There is a famous quote that, ‘Lessons of goodness and repentance are a lot but there are very few who learn anything from these lessons’. Happiness is also a topic of both psychology ...

Release of Mullah Baradar: A Milestone for Peace?

Release of Mullah Baradar: A Milestone for Peace?

September 11, 2013 | Bahram Rafiee

As a remarkable sign of Pakistan’s new phase of cooperation with the Afghan peace process, Islamabad is to release Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a prominent Taliban leader who was in prison ...

Modernity – A Challenge in the Country

Modernity – A Challenge in the Country

September 11, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

The bombardment of cultures and customs in our country from all over the world claiming to bring modernity is a big challenge before younger generations. Presently, Afghanistan is in labor of giving ...

A Solution to Dilemma of Women Rights

A Solution to Dilemma of Women Rights

September 11, 2013 | Masood Korosh

Human Rights Watch asked President Karzai to enforce the Elimination of Violence Against Women law (EVAW) before the end of his term. In a 15-page briefing paper, released on Wednesday ...

Remembering Massoud

Remembering Massoud

September 10 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

In this time of ethnic sensitivity, every group or community has its own leader and hero. With such public mindset, it is almost impossible that there should be a person who should be equally ...

Blood is Mightier than Bullet

Blood is Mightier than Bullet

September 10 2013 | Hujjatullah

This time, the fate of life targets a woman diarist which led her to a horrible death. The tragic murder of 56-year-old Afghan-Indian woman, Sushmita Banerjee, is, indeed, a very sad tragedy. Her ...

Trust Deficits Plague Peace Talk

Trust Deficits Plague Peace Talk

September 10 2013 | Asmatyari

Finally the ice of political deadlock between Pakistan government and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) melt away, subsequent to prioritization of peace talk by government than ...

Peaceful Demonstration – A Better Choice

Peaceful Demonstration – A Better Choice

September 08, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai

On Saturday, Sep. 07, hundreds of people gathered for a protest in front of the Iranian consulate in Herat City. They were basically protesting against the alleged corruption of the consulate officials. They accused ...

A 50 Years Old Dream

A 50 Years Old Dream

September 08, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

On 28th August, thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to mark the completion of 50 years of a great occasion when on the same day in 1963, Martin Luther King Junior led a peaceful march in ...

Daughter Of Eve Suffers!

Daughter Of Eve Suffers!

September 08, 2013 | Asmatyari

Every day, we learn a heart wrecking story where a woman is found the object of rampant harassment, physical abuses, mental torture and societal discrimination. We turn deaf ears to the ...

Democracy and Constitutions!

Democracy and Constitutions!

September 07, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

A very rich person went to one of the oldest universities of world in England (I am not sure about the name of the university). He was very much impressed from all the departments and vast functioning of ...

Action and Reaction in Syria

Action and Reaction in Syria

September 07, 2013 | Hujjatullah Zia

The Syrian unrest is drawing the world’s attention for getting highly catastrophic nowadays and the great concern is the vulnerability of women and children. The rising fatality rate meets ...

Waziristan – A Haven of Extremists?

Waziristan – A Haven of Extremists?

September 07, 2013 | Farman Nawaz

According to Express Tribune - the leading newspaper of Pakistan, on August 20, 2013 Prime Minister Nawaz Shahrif , while addressing the nation on television, has called for dialogue with militants to ...

Fresh Concerns about the Election Process

Fresh Concerns about the Election Process

September 05, 2013 | Bahram Rafiee

In the run-up to the presidential elections, numerous challenges, from security to political, are being highlighted as potential threats to the election process. Recent statements by ...

Islamic Movements and Politics

Islamic Movements and Politics

September 05, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah

Akhwan-ul-Muslimeen or Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt became another example of religious movements that ended in failure. It would be early to declare this movement to have failed but it is also ...