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Pakistan: The Blood Stream of Minorities
January 12, 2013 | Abbas Ali Sultani
The massive sectarian targeted attacks against Hazara Community on Thursday evening in Quetta, Baluchistan that initially left behind 93 dead and 120 injured has shocked the world and has been the breaking news headlines of the national and international media reports since Thursday evening (10, Jan, 2013). According ...
Hazaras’ Genocide Persists Unhampered!
January 12, 2013 | Asmat Yari
The community who earned fame for being highly literate, sociable, accustomed to fair business, admired for harmonious social interaction, inclined to active participation in societal ...
Amendments are Pivotal
January 10, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
A political system is established within a state so as to safeguard the rights of its people and solve the socio-political issues that may hamper the better life opportunities. If a system fulfills the challenges and solves the problems that may ...
Agricultural Sector in Afghanistan
January 10, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
According to their production, countries of the world are divided into two classes; industrial or agricultural. Most of the countries of Europe that quickly adopted to the Industrial Revolution and were ...
Proposing Educational Reforms
January 10, 2013 | Asmat Yari
In the last three decades, Afghanistan's educational system was steered with ample radicalization. Control of the education system has been a mobilizing force for the conservative and radicalized ...
Stagnancy in Cultural Evolution
January 09, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
A society tends to suffer from cultural stagnancy or lag when there is a considerable gap between the material culture and non-material culture of the society. The cultural lag basically results from speedy developments in ...
If it is not our war…
January 09, 2013 | Farman Nawaz
The hardliners, afraid of a public awareness against Taliban atrocities, wail that the war on terror is not our war. Straight away it raises the question that if it is not our war then whose war ...
Unemployment Needs Immediate Response
January 09, 2013 | Abdul Samad Haidari
After more than eleven years of national and international organizations' involvement in economic, social and political sectors, unemployment still rocks the country. More than 40 percent ...
All Humans Have Equal Rights
January 08, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Two important factors that the international community has been trying to ensure before they leave Afghanistan are said to be the eradication of corruption and the preservation of human ...
Proficient Public Administration; Vital for Good Governance!
January 08, 2013 | Asmat Yari
Afghanistan has been ravaged by years of conflict. Afghan national institutions are severely factional and lack a cohesive national security culture. In other words, Afghan institutions are ...
Violence against Women
January 08, 2013 | Masood Korosh
A shocking report once again found widespread coverage in the media as well as social networks. The ferocious and severe torture once again pulled the issue of women rights to the top of ...
Afghanistan in Regional Focus
January 07, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
India and Iran both have shown interest in establishing long-term contact with each other regarding the situation in Afghanistan. During a current visit of Iran's Supreme National Security Council ...
Pakistan Election: A Big Question
January 07, 2013 | Muhammad Younas
As soon as elections 2013 are approaching, rumours about postponement of elections are getting louder all over media in Pakistan. Internal terror activities and socio-political mayhem themselves seem to be ...
AfPak: The US War on Terror in 2012
January 07, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
2012 was a year of success on the battlefield for the US/ NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF), with significant militant ...
Women’s Suicide Attempts on the Rise
January 06, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Life is a precious gift; however, there are many people who believe that life is a burden. The sort of pessimism in human psychology that starts abhorring the beauty of life may be ...
A Way to Salvation!
January 06, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
There are some events or happenings in the world which can't be easily understood. A person or king who was cruel in the whole of his life and inflicted a lot many troubles and difficulties to ...
Syrian Should not Repeat the Mistake of Afghans
January 06, 2013 | Masood Korosh
A car bomb targeted an Alawite dominated neighborhood in the northern Damascus and killed at least nine people and left many more injured. The Syrian Observatory from Human rights said on Friday, Jan. 04, that the ...
‘Liberty’ in a State
January 05, 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 living, the formation of states has been necessitated. Today human beings are so much dependent on the ...
Have We Fulfilled Our Responsibilities?
January 05, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
A man got very angry of a cat in his house. He took a stick in his hand and ran after the cat. Cat went into a room and tried to hide itself somewhere. Man quickly closed and locked the door and ...
Social Life is Indispensible
January 03, 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 invisible chains of relations and ...
Synchronizing Diversity
January 03, 2013 | Asmat Yari
Afghanistan is a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-ethnic society. People of different creeds, customs, cultures and traditions live here. They have their different ...
Drug Production Threatens both Peace and Progress
January 03, 2013 | Abdul Samad Haidari
It is reported that Afghanistan is the world's leading producer of opium and heroin, exporting drugs to Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. But, the scale of domestic drug abuse has only ...
The Reign of Cold Weather
January 02, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Afghanistan is one of the countries that suffer from lack of development and basic requirements of life. Millions in the country can hardly acquire basic necessities of life. Through most part of ...
Bad Practices! Till When?
January 02, 2013 | Mohammad Ehsan
Early and forced marriages have accompanied Afghans since centuries and it seems like that this bad practice would continue to persist for longer periods in Afghanistan. It has been estimated ...
On the End of the Year 2012
January 02, 2013 | Abdul Samad Haidari
Finally, the year 2012 ended and it ended with much bloodshed and violence compared to last year (2011). There was no end to the violence in 2012, as well. The U.S. troop deaths declined overall ...
‘Special People’ Need Special Attention
January 01, 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 ...
Worth of Self-Accountability
January 01, 2013 | Asmat Yari
"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude towards the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad ...
Avoiding the Destruction!
January 01, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
This is a very rare event now but there was a time when the streets and houses of Kabul made you sigh deep from your heart. Wherever you looked, you could see the ruined ...
Some Bitter Facts!
December 31, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
The convolution of being and even of the best of beings and its thousand years of evolution has only made it marvel at the achievements it has acquired; however, it has not enabled it to make life a better opportunity. The beauty of life has to be in ...
Taliban and Anti-Polio Campaign in AfPak
December 31, 2012 | Lauryn Oates
Polio has been infecting humans since at least the time of the Pharaohs, until the 20th century when aggressive outbreaks led to intensified responses, and consequently to critical leaps forward ...
Astana as A Symbol of Contemporary Kazakhstan
December 31, 2012 | Mohammad “H.R.”
Who said that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'? But there is a city in Kazakhstan that refuted these seemingly unbeatable words of Rudyard Kipling. In 1997 ...
Do We Have Enough?
December 30, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
Human beings are fortunate that they are blessed with variety of energy resources that have enabled them to live their lives on the planet Earth. It is because of these energy sources that human beings have performed miracles by inventing various ways of ensuring ...
Christmas and Cooperation!
December 30, 2012 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
25th December is an important day for all the Christians of the world when they celebrate with all the joy and preparation the 'Christmas Day'. On this day, Christians around the world buy new ...
The Syrian Dilemma
December 30, 2012 | Masood Korosh
The Syrian security forces once again sent a strong message that the government is still strong enough to cope with growing armed opposition and those who started a countdown for its collapse ...
Pressure Groups in Democracy
December 29, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
It is believed that democracy is a government of the people, which implies that people participate actively in the formation of the government and the affairs of the state. People may play such a role in democracy in different ways – sometimes they ...