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Afghan Women’s Quest for Their Rights
October 10, 2012 | Mehdi Rezaie
In the post-Taliban Afghanistan, "women rights" is the new buzzword. Improving the conditions and social standing of women in today's Afghanistan has found devout champions in both the ...
Pride of Afghanistan!
October 09, 2012 | Asmat yari
Dr. Sima Samar, a legendary woman ever living in the history of Afghanistan, rendering services selflessly in upbringing of oppressed and depressed among various communities, with the service ...
Against the Laws of Nature!
October 09, 2012 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Taliban's regime is taken differently by different people. Some people liked it because it was the most peaceful time in three decades of Afghan war when people had nothing to worry about like ...
2014 Doom Predictions
October 09, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
The doom prediction for Afghanistan after 2014 continues in Western think tank reports and op-ed analysis. The latest report is by the International Crisis Group. Titled as "Afghanistan: The ...
“Freedom is not the Absence of Restraints”
October 08, 2012 | 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 ...
Decentralization may Work Better
October 08, 2012 | Abdul Samad Haidari
Permanent peace, accountability and sustainable development with justice are the fast requirement for this war-torn nation. The country has been under decades of conflict, with ...
Ten Things I Love about Kabul
October 08, 2012 | Noorjahan Akbar
Anxiety about security, especially among the educated youth and women, increases in Afghanistan as 2014 approaches. This anxiety became more apparent to me, when I was preparing to return to my college in the ...
Profound Homage to Worthy Teachers!
October 06, 2012 | Asmat yari
All through my life I have been taught by a number of teachers, all of whom have had some form of influence on me. However, through this intellectual journey I have discovered many qualities that have ...
People of Heart!
October 06, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
People of heart are the monuments of humility and modesty who are devoted to a spiritual life, determined to stay away from all the material and spiritual dirt, always vigilant to corporeal ...
Marriage: A Huge Burden!
October 06, 2012 | Abdul Samad Haidari
State institutions were shattered down during decades of conflict, with regional, ethnic and tribal differences, also making it difficult to enforce laws. When the Taliban came into power, ...
Socio-political Changes and Afghan Transition
October 04, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
The course of history in different societies and states has been dominantly guided by social and political changes. These changes have been able to attract the attentions of social and political ...
Time Management
October 04, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Most of us don't worry about 15 minutes, which perhaps is no time at all. In 15 minutes, it is hard to drive to work; it is hard to read a newspaper or even to eat a filling meal. However, this ...
Continuation of Violence in Iraq
October 04, 2012 | Masood Korosh
As result of series of deadly attacks in nine cities and towns in Iraq, around 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Sunday, September 30, 2012. With Sunday's casualties, more than ...
Ostentatious Marriages in Poor Country
October 03, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
With the changing nature of Afghan society, stratification of society into very rich and very poor classes and growing gap between them is becoming evident in the form of various social ...
Social Justice; Indispensable to Prosperous Afghanistan!
October 03, 2012 | Asmatullah Yari
I was shocked hearing the awful in cidence of an innocent 16-year-old adolescent girl lashed in public on flawed accusation of having illicit relationship with a man, freed ...
The Impacts of Fragile Security on Economical Growth
October 03, 2012 | Abbas Ali Sultani
It is for ten years that Afghanistan has been benefiting the foreign aids. The international aids, spent by international community during the last ten years have contributed to some ...
Our Attitude towards Disabled
October 02, 2012 | 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 ...
ADMIRING DIFFERENCES!
October 02, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Very recently, I have been hearing a lot about the differences between the people and of course the conflicts resulting out of these differences. These differences or ...
Political Transition: Calls for Reform
October 02, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
2012 has been a year of immense political mobilization on grassroots and institutional level in Afghanistan. Apart from the quantum phase of security transition with dramatic challenges ...
Cultural Lag and Afghan Society
October 01, 2012 | Dilawar Sherzai
A society tends to suffer from cultural 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 material aspect of ...
Calls for Reform
October 01, 2012 | Abbas Dayar
A new survey about Afghan parliament reveals interesting findings. Conducted by Democracy International for USAID and completed in July 2012, the survey gives an overall portrayal of ...
Tourism and socio-economic gains!
October 01, 2012 | Asmatullah Yari
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people, traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not ...
Changes are Inevitable!
September 30, 2012 | 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 ...
Confidence of the Confident!
September 30, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
He was one of my class fellows in university. He had that charismatic personality which is a very rare commodity and makes one's personality really distinguished and impressive among a ...
Building Self Sufficiency
September 29, 2012 | Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam
Afghanistan entered a new chapter in its history in 2001 and has come a long way since. The Afghan people – together with their international partners – have made tremendous progress in education, freedom of speech and media, health ...
Violence against Afghan Women
September 29, 2012 | Masood Korosh
A twelve year old girl was raped by a group of armed people in Khenjan district of Baghlan Province. Habibullah Maqsoudi, chief of Police headquarter in the district has said to news agencies ...
Draining The Grief!
September 29, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
After the tension-free days of childhood and to some extent, the teenage, when one comes to the professional life and his days and nights are occupied absolutely by the worries and tensions of ...
No End to Violence Enumeration of Population, Necessary for a State!
September 27, 2012 | Dilawar Sharzai
Population census is the official enumeration of a country's total number of people. It includes not only numbering of the people but also certain attributes attached to them. Like, gender, age, profession and other necessary ...
For Today and Tomorrow!
September 27, 2012 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
The room was full of smoke. There were 8 people who all almost looked like the same. Their faces gave a clear picture of a person who is very sharp, cunning and wicked, with the signs of greed to ...
Tension between Israel and Tehran
September 27, 2012 | Masood Korosh
Recently, the verbal controversy between Tehran and Tele Aviv has intensified to a new record. It has been a long time that Israeli officials labeled the Islamic republic as a growing potential threat ...
No End to Violence against Afghan Women
September 26, 2012 | Dilawar Sharzai
In a brutal and Taliban-like process a girl, only 15 years old, was sentenced to 'hundred lashes' on the charges of adultery. The 'Kanagroo Court' that announced and then carried out the ...
Peace is Vital to Human Society!
September 26, 2012 | Asmatullah
Since antiquity man has strived for political, economical and cultural dominance over his fellow man. On emergence of nations states, rivalries transformed into hostility, disputes and ...
Afghanistan: The Future Ground of Political Game
September 26, 2012 | Abbas Ali Sultani
As 2014, the international security troops' withdrawal schedule gets closer and closer; the panic increases and no one knows what will be on the screen to dance according to the music. "We ...
Nuclear Proliferation
September 25, 2012 | Dilawar Sharzai
Human beings, in the struggle for their survival, have gone to every possible extreme. They, both individually and in the form of some groups, have proved the Darwin's Theory of "Struggle for survival and survival of ...
An Analysis of Post-2014 Scenarios
September 25, 2012 | Abbas Daiyar
Gilles Dorronsoro is an academic expert on Afghanistan, Turkey and South Asia. He is currently a resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment which has published its latest paper by him. For most of ...