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Rumors and Their Impacts
October 23, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
A rumor is believed to be "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern." However, this is not a definition that may be ...
Highlights of Parliamentary Monitoring
October 23, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) has issued its monthly parliamentary monitoring report of September. The National Assembly (Wolesi Jirga) has had an active month, with ...
Humanity Owes You
October 23, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
'Humanity is indebted to you, Nelson Mandela', this was written on the profile of one of my friends and this made me revisit my memories about this great leader of South Africa. I at once recalled ...
Afghans Need to Preserve their Cultural Heritage
October 22, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
In one of the most remarkable events for the preservation of national cultural heritage, President Hamid Karzai and Prince Karim Aga Khan officially opened the restored mausoleum of Timur Shah (Timur Shah was the Durrani King who made Kabul the capital of the ...
Doom Predictions and the Way Forward
October 22, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
In latest spat of war frustration, President Karzai accused the US of "double game" in Afghanistan, by ignoring, in his own words, "roots of terrorism", in Pakistan. To which ...
Egyptians Look Agitated with MB Activities
October 22, 2012 | Masood Korosh
Thousands of people flocked to central Tahrir Square after Friday's prayer last week to protest against what they called as dominance of Muslim Brotherhood in the Constitution-drafting of ...
The Significance of Political Parties
October 21, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
Recently many questions have been raised about the drawbacks or shortcomings within Afghan political system. One of the major issues in Afghanistan's political crisis is the absence of one institution that has been a key for democratic systems in ...
Not For This World
October 21, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
In old times, when there was no commercialism and teachers taught students for the sole purpose of service and when this profession was not the mean of their livelihood, the blessings of ...
Time’s Treasure!
October 21, 2012 | Asmat Yari
Life is short and yet man spends it like a prodigal, as if it were eternal and he, immortal. The length of life is shortened due to short span of time equated with life and huge sum of ...
Strategic Deal Being Enforced: Rasmussen
October 20, 2012 |
NATO is working with the Afghan government on implementing the agreement on an enduring partnership, the secretary-general said on Thursday, pledging continued international assistance to the war-battered country."We know that individual allies are working with the Afghan government as well and some ...
Love at First Sight???
October 20, 2012 | By Muhammad Rasool Shah
It was an end of the term party arranged by the students themselves. Like all the language institutes, a new level or class finished after every four month and it was a tradition that ...
Anxiety and Confusion Grow as the U.S.-Exit Permeates
October 20, 2012 | By Abdul Samad Haidari
Since I was born, I remember the story of war and bloodshed in Afghanistan. The legend to conflict never ended and there is no day without killing of hundreds of civilians and other innocent ...
Organs of State and Democracy
October 18, 2012 | By 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 pillars in modern world as the role of media in the state affairs has gained much importance. In the developed ...
A Mirage!
October 18, 2012 | By Muhammad 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 ...
Free Market in Afghanistan, Is It Working?
October 18, 2012 | By Mehdi Rezaie
Free Market Economy is the buzzword in today's Afghanistan. The country's political leadership wholeheartedly embraced it although for many of them it was for the very first time that they heard ...
Another Opportunity for Regional Cooperation
October 17, 2012 | By Dilawar Sherzai
President Hamid Karzai is at the 12th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in the Azerbaijan capital Baku. He will address the representatives of different regional countries including Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The ...
Heal Wounds!
October 17, 2012 | By Asmat Yari
The grant free pardon and giving up all claim on account of an offense or debt, is termed as forgiveness. And just as a addendum this doesn't mean that we are approving, accepting, dismissing ...
Possibility of a United Front against President Assad’s Regime
October 17, 2012 | By Masood Korosh
One of the key factors that have kept Syrian rebels weak and unable to portray an alternative to current government is divided leadership. The free Syrian army, consisting of army ...
Our Politicos Need to Improve!
October 16, 2012 | By 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 order, in the proportionate amalgam of ...
Keeping the Hope Alive!
October 16, 2012 | By Muhammad Rasool Shah
I went to him to take his views about starting a new business. He was the man of the field and thus I was hoping that he would come up with some unique ideas in this regard. When we were ...
Malala; the Emblem of Enlightened Moderation
October 16, 2012 | By Asmat Yari
The color of our green planet is turnedred due to persistent bloodshed, of uncountable innocent's human beings, the only ruling specie of our planet. This ruling class sent by supreme creator ...
Preservation of Inalienable Rights
October 15, 2012 | 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 ...
Dear Imran, Jihad is not Cricket!
October 15, 2012 | Masood Korosh
The Pakistani cricketer-turned politician, Imran Khan, made irresponsible comments about Afghanistan on last Wednesday. Speaking from the hospital in Peshawar where Malala Yousafzai, a ...
On the Crisis Group Report
October 15, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
During the press conference last week while lashing out at the US for playing "double game", President Karzai also attacked foreign media for a "psychological war" against ...
The Cause of Malala Should be Persued
October 14, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
Afghan President and people have responded very well to the incident of Malala Yousafzai, a 14 years old Pakistani girl, who was shot on Tuesday, October 9, while riding a school bus in the ...
A Charge Sheet!
October 14, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
One of my friends told this story so I would like to tell it in his words using first person pronoun, "I used to go to office in taxi. As my salary was limited, so I used to take the public taxi or ...
It is All about Peace not War
October 14, 2012 | Abdul Samad Haidari
Peace is the fundamental process for all human development and human civilization. Perhaps, it is necessary for any progress and solidarity in the entire world, particularly in Afghanistan that ...
Denouncing Media Violence!
October 13, 2012 | Asmat Yari
The advent of visual media is perhaps the greatest breakthrough in the history of man endeavor, enabling pictorial communication possible, with deepening effect on outsized audience, to a longer ...
A Blessed Bound!
October 13, 2012 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Scene is of a big wedding hall which is full of guests. In the center lies the beautifully decorated stage where a grand but empty chair is waiting for the bridegroom. The hall is divided ...
Educators and Parents’ roles in Building Children’s Personality
October 13, 2012 | Masood Korosh
Developing positive relationships with parents and families of low socio-economic status and getting them involved with their children's education and school activities is a challenge. In order ...
Carelessness May Lead to Extinction!
October 11, 2012 | 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 unattended, could lead to a major catastrophe ...
What is Happening in our Schools!
October 11, 2012 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
The scenes are pathetic; be it inside the schools or outside. Students are the ominous figures of indiscipline, lack of manners and frightening combination of all the symptoms that arise from ...
Currency Crisis and the Possibility of Persian Spring
October 11, 2012 | Masood Korosh
During past few weeks, the currency crisis in Islamic Republic of Iran was interpreted as promising signal for Israel and its allies that indeed sanctions might work and bring about flexibility to its ...
“Non-combatants Fall Prey to Insecurity”
October 10, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
As the date for the withdrawal of international troops is getting nearer, the concerns regarding the future of stability and a peaceful society are getting serious. In the ongoing year ...
Child Labour Needs Holistic Responses
October 10, 2012 | Abdul Samad Haidari
In fact, Afghanistan has never been kind to its children and women and it has been the cruelest country for them indeed. Perhaps, whenever the war breaks out in any part of the world, it affects the ...