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Beauty; Inside and Outside
February 26, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
The girl was beautiful and she herself knew that very well that’s why she was very sensitive about her dresses, shoes, jewelry and make-up and other things. She tried her best to make ...
A Late-night Rendezvous with Afghan Police
February 26, 2013 | Ahmad Shuja
Kabul residents know better than to frolic about the streets and cafes until late at night and then hop into a random cab to go home. It’s simply too dangerous for that. But the danger is ...
Evolution of Political Institutions
Monday February 25 | Dilawar Sherzai
With the evolution of state and politics, there has been a movement from personality-centered structures and setups to the institutional-led structures. A thorough study of the journey from ...
Educational System Needs
Monday February 25 | AsmatYari
Education is a way of igniting and enlightening the thought of an individual. It is to create a spark and create the sense of realization about the purpose of life, world and the universe. It ...
Pakistan’s Deadliest Terror Group
Monday February 25 | Abbas Daiyar
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is an Al-Qaeda-allied ostensibly banned terror outfit based in Punjab Province of Pakistan that has been in spotlight for the latest waves of genocidal attacks ...
Suicide to Avoid Difficulties
February 24, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The scenario in Afghanistan, regarding the lives of women and the difficulties they face, seems to continue unaltered and unfortunately it is very much pathetic. There are many women who give up the ...
From Candle to Candle
February 24, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Almost 4 decades before, more than 40 men worked in a farm of a landlord, in a remote village in Helmand province. They all belonged to different parts of the country and thus they lived in the huts ...
Building Democracy in Afghanistan
February 24, 2013 | Mehdi Rezaie
Afghanistan's experience with democracy has seen many twists and turnovers in the past one decade much like the history of this nation through ages and centuries. It has been a relatively new experience ...
Our Approach towards the Handicapped
February 23, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The decades of war in Afghanistan has influenced every aspect of Afghan life. A part from major impacts on political and economic spheres, there has been great impact on individual level as well. There are so many examples of the people who are either ...
Social Media – an Altered Mode of Communication!
February 23, 2013 | AsmatYari
In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg co-created a new definition for connectivity in his Harvard dorm room–He called it Facebook. He gave “people the power to share and make the world more open ...
The Hen and the Golden Egg
February 23, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
There is an interesting theory of economics. It is about contraction and expansion of economies. In an economy where everyone is trying to loot and save, general spending decreases which brings down ...
Utilitarianism and Representative Government
February 21, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
With the rise of the concepts of individualism and utilitarianism in Europe, the concepts of individual rights and liberty also became prominent. The political thinkers like Bentham and J.S. Mill played dominant roles in defining the ...
On The Greatness of Service
February 21, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
According to historians, spread of Islam in the Indian subcontinent (including of present areas of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh etc.) began with the business activities of Muslim ...
The Terror of Extremism
February 20, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
It is very unfortunate to note that human history is filled with violent incidents. The violence has been able to overshadow the docile aspect of human nature every now and then both through major wars and individual conflicts. There have been many occasions when ...
Discipline Builds a Nation
February 20, 2013 | Asmatyari
Setting a time for a work and a work for a time, identically a place for everything and everything for a place is the manifestation of the presence of high degree of order in the ...
The Good, the Bad and the Evil
February 20, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
In last two months, we witnessed a lot of snow in Kabul. This snow was accompanied by frost and cold. Few days were so cold that one did not like to do anything and wanted to sit in room, in front ...
The Carnage Continues
February 19, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
According to the latest reports, the number of people killed because of Saturday’s bombing on Kirani road area of Quetta – the capital city of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, has reached to 90. And the number of people injured as ...
Afghan Refugees Trapped in Syria Conflict
February 19, 2013 | Ahmad Shuja
There are around 2,000 Afghans living in Syria. Most are Shiites and belong to the Hazara ethnic group. Their migration to Syria occurred in several small waves, with most fleeing ...
Terror Revisited Hazara Community in Quetta Baluchistan
February 19, 2013 | Abbas Ali Sultani
Following the massive targeted attack on Hazara community on Jan, 10, 2013 that left behind 120 killed and several injured, the terror with a water tanker loaded of 800 kilograms of ...
What May the Future Hold?
February 18, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The approach of the people and intellectuals towards the socio-political scenario in Afghanistan seems divergent and there are not very certain attitudes in this regard. There are many ...
A Genocide-in-Making
February 18, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
While mourners were observing Chehlum of 118 victims of the January 10 car bombings, another suicide-attack targeted the Hazara Shia community in Pakistan’s Quetta city on Saturday. Over ...
To Communicate, is to Bind!
February 18, 2013 | Asmatyari
“Man is by nature a social animal” the great Greek philosopher, Aristotle had once said. He might have considered the superficial agents entailing the unmet needs of man, serving as a ...
Ethnocentrism – A Challenge for Multiculturalism
February 17, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The world of ours is embellished with variety of thoughts, feelings, perceptions and ideologies. And the same variety, many believe, is the beauty of it. However, maintaining the same variety, the challenge for the current phase of human evolution is to ...
Icons of Inspiration
February 17, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
There are some events and incidents that leave their lasting imprints on our mind and emotions. These events make us think from an absolutely new and better perspective. They show us those ...
The Rise of Islamists in Syria
February 17, 2013 | Masood Korosh
Syrian rebellions are stepping on the upward stairs of assertiveness. Their supporters burst in happiness on Saturday, hearing that they forced out Syrian security forces out of Shadadeh ...
Scientific Knowledge and Research
February 16, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
It can be observed throughout the annals of history that the societies that have been open and have been able to search and discover have been gifted in so many ways. They have not only developed but have opened many doors of knowledge, through which ...
New Cities and New Dreams
February 16, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Like me, many of you might have seen the pictures of Dubai when it included a few old houses and few huts were being established on the beach. Population was limited and people mostly depended on ...
True Peace Means Human Rights Protection
February 16, 2013 | Abdul Samad Haidari
Perhaps, peace, good security situation and stability all would be meaningless unless the basic rights of individual is not protected and concerned, particularly the rights of women in all parts of the country ...
Criminal Behavior in Adolescents
February 13, 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 society there is ...
Belief and Disbelief
February 13, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
These days, parents struggle a lot to admit their children in quality schools. Even in public schools, admitting a child has become a hard task and parents suffer a lot to manage different ...
Western Influence in India
February 13, 2013 | Tufail Ahmad
As India begins its 64th year as a republic, it is also being transformed as a western country, with the organizing principles of its politics and society rooted in the European Enlightenment. In Indian ...
Through the Uncertainties
February 12, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
ifferent people seem to have different opinion regarding the post-withdrawal scenario in Afghanistan. There are certain people who are optimistic about the situation and believe that things may get better and there are many others who doubt improvements ...
The London Summit
February 12, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
The London trilateral summit last week introduced a new deadline in the withdrawal rush—“to take all necessary measures to achieve the goal of a peace settlement over the next ...
Astonishing Level of Corruption
February 12, 2013 | Masood Korosh
The recent report of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) about the amount of money paid as bribe to public and private officials in 2012 definitely was irritating and an alarm ...
On Hapless Civilian Casualties
February 11, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The lives of the common people of Afghanistan remain threatened both by insecurity and social evils. Though they have been promised better and secure living conditions, they are yet to see anything practical in this regard. The insurgents among Taliban still remain ...