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Seclusion from Society
April 24, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The great Greek thinker, Aristotle, had noticed that man is by nature a social animal. He, no doubt, was right. Man lives in a society and within a society he is bound to be in chains – the ...
Increase in Poppy Cultivation
April 24, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its Opium Risk Assessment 2013 report on Afghanistan. Poppy production has been on record high in third consecutive ...
The Practicable Accountability
April 24, 2013 | Asmatyari
Subsequent to Tokyo conference on July 8, 2012, the donors of the conference agreed to provide a very large amount of civilian aid to Afghanistan ($16 billion over four years, or $4 billion per ...
Remembering Earth on Earth Day
April 23, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Among the international issues that have been influencing the human beings, the deterioration of environment through different types of contaminations is a major one. This issue, if left ...
A Burning Issue
April 23, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Last year, the news about the rape and murder of a girl in Mumbai of India got mass attention and was heard and discussed in every corner of the world. The girl was travelling in a public bus ...
Democracy in Pakistan
April 23, 2013 | Masood Korosh
Months ago a cheerful report decorated the headlines of Pakistani and international newspapers: the civil government successfully came to an end after serving its full term for the ...
Sane Action Leads to Bliss
April 22, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The stretched out darkness of the night flows into the light of the dawn, and gets enlightened in the next beautiful morning. The day, after passing through its definite time, turns back to ...
Progressiveness Changes our Ill-fate
April 22, 2013 | Asmatryari
In 1905 American Social Reformers began to call themselves Progressives. The philosophy of progressivism welcomed innovations and reforms in government to alleviate ills of society and wanted people ...
Time is the Outcome of Change
April 22, 2013 | Abdul Samad Haidari
Time is all that allows one to create, invent and measure the change, civilization, prosperity, development, sustainability, progress and owns all precious things ever imagined in life. In ...
Youngsters and Crimes
April 21, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
No existing society in the world is perfect. There are different factors in every society that are responsible for creating injustices and crimes and pollute the systems. Though in every ...
Militants’ Blow to Pakistani Seculars
April 21, 2013 | Masood Korosh
Leaders of secular political parties are tugging their ears to stay awake longer in order to ponder over how to walk down to rocky road of parliamentary campaign against their Islamist and ...
An Illusion
April 21, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
In old times, when fabric or cloth was very rare and had good monetary value, a scholar was busy in washing his hands and face beside a river. He was wearing a big turban of white fabric that was very ...
Accountability and Good Governance
April 20, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Accountability is a key requirement of good governance. Not only governmental institutions but also the private sector and civil society organizations must be accountable to the public and to ...
Progressive Afghanistan –Tied to Credible Poll
April 20, 2013 | Asmatyari
Democratic transition will be achieved, when an operational system exists supported by vibrant functioning institutions. The upcoming year, 2014 is significant from multi-dimensions. The incumbent ...
The Ultimate Remedy
April 20, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
A Bedouin came to visit our Holy Prophet (PBUH). He saw that grandsons of our Holy Prophet (PBUH) were playing happily with him. These two innocent kids were too much happy that they had ...
Class Differences and Afghan Society
April 18, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The social and political changes in Afghanistan, in the post-Taliban scenario, have been able to cast diverse effects on Afghan society. Among different changes the stratification of society ...
Bound for the Accountability
April 18, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
There is no need of mentioning any specific nation but history is full of examples that whenever a nation got strong enough, it always thought of capturing the weaker nations and exploiting their ...
The Filthy Quagmire
April 17, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The 2013 UN Opium Risk Assessment report on Afghanistan has revealed that the menace of poppy production has not decreased in Afghanistan; it has been on record high in third consecutive year. The ...
Need for Change in Peace Talks Strategy
April 17, 2013 | Masood Korosh
As the 2014 approaches, Afghans are perplexed and worried about the future. People are worried what will happen to achievements and successes of Afghan government with the support of billions of dollars ...
Humanizing the Human Relations
April 17, 2013 | Asmatyari
Relationships are connection between persons. We share a relationship with our family, with friends and most important of all we share a relationship with our creator. Relationships can be ...
Electoral Laws and Voter Registration
April 16, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
The parliamentary commission has apparently concluded work on the Senate and National Assembly points of disagreement on the law related to structure of the Independent Election Commission and Electoral ...
US Pressures on Pyongyang
April 16, 2013 | Masood Korosh
After meeting with Seoul friends, Mr. John Kerry headed towards China, making his first visit to the country in his new role on Saturday afternoon. During his visit he will try his best to ...
Expectations from Others
April 16, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
It is said that a person who has been sentenced to death lives the most miserable life on earth. The death itself may not be as bitter and painful as the awful time that creeps to him very slowly. Death ...
Human Rights Must be Emphasized
April 15, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
In order to emphasize human rights in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has suggested formulating a strategy that would bar the ...
To End the Miseries of Women
April 15, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Regarding the violence against women in Afghanistan, there is a bizarre situation that requires the genius of Einstein to be understood. Every passing day increases the number of reports in ...
Revalue the Devalued
April 15, 2013 | Asmatyari
Ethics are about making choices that may not always feel good or seem like they benefit you but are the right choices to make. They are the choices that are examples of model citizens and examples of the golden ...
Another Asylum Seekers’ Boat Sinks
April 14, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Another boat carrying 72 asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia has been reported to have sunk a couple of days ago. A number of asylum seekers were reportedly rescued by local fisherman ...
Investment in Afghanistan
April 14, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Almost all of our politicians have either understood this or they have developed such a habit that whenever they go to any foreign land, they invite the industrialists and businessmen of ...
The Concept of “Separation of Powers”
April 13, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Every modern state stands on four basic pillars also termed as organs of the state. These include Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Media. Media has been considered as one of the ...
Democratic Values to Flourish
April 13, 2013 | Asmatyari
Democratic values support the belief that an orderly society can exist in which freedom is preserved. But order and freedom must be balanced. In the early days of the French revolution, the members ...
Election 2013: Last Chance to Save Balochistan
April 13, 2013 | Muhammad Younas
Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan and covers an area of 347,190 sq-km with a population around 7,914,000. It shares border with Afghanistan to the north, Iran to the north-west, the ...
Understanding Public Opinion
April 11, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Public Opinion may be defined as, "Attitudes, perspectives and preferences of a population towards events, circumstances and issues of mutual interest". Public opinion plays an important ...
Boxes of Life
April 11, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
In childhood, an inexperienced child believes in whatever he sees or hears. It happens because a child doesn’t have any prior experience and his knowledge about the people, or events or ...
The Gloomy Process and Prospective of Peace Talks
April 11, 2013 | Masood Korosh
A group of Britain Parliament members released a report, saying that peace deal should be made before the withdrawal of foreign security forces. The report says that in lack of peace deal, civil ...
Liberty – the Actual Concept
April 10, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The formation of states in human history has been convened by the concept that needs and rights of human beings should be safeguarded. In order to make sure that they have a better ...