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Optimism and pessimism over Pakistan and Qatar peace process
June 25,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The “Lahore Peace Conference” kicked off in Bhurban, a Pakistani town located near Lahore and Islamabad, on Saturday morning where many Afghan politicians have ...
Expansions Don’t Die of Old Age
June 25,2019 | Anatole Kaletsky
The US economy has entered its 11th year of uninterrupted expansion, breaking the previous record for the longest period of growth in American history without a recession...
No Hasty Deal with Taliban
June 24,2019 | Sheikh Manzoor and Hujjatullah Zia
As negotiations between the Taliban and the United States have picked up, India appears apprehensive about peace deal and had cautioned Washington not to take any hasty ...
The Gulf of Deniability
June 24,2019 | John Andrews
What will constitute yet another act of war in the Middle East? On May 12, four oil tankers in the Gulf – two of them Saudi Arabian, one from the United Arab Emirates, and the ...
Afghan Peace Process: What has been Done and What is Needed to be Done?
June 23,2019 | Jalal Shams
After the Trump administration in the United States in January 2017, president Trump appointed Zalmay Khalilzad as . . .
New Challenges to Voters’ Registration Process
June 23,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Three days ago, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) informed of progress in the voters’ registration process with announcing a relatively high level of statistics...
The G20 in Osaka
June 22,2019 | Shinzo Abe
On June 28, I will host the 2019 G20 summit in Osaka. Our agenda will focus on three key issues, each of which is particularly important for Asia...
Afghan Peace Process: Home Grown Solution Holds the Future
June 22,2019 | Srimal Fernando and Jalal Shams
Since October 2018, the US and Taliban negotiators held six rounds of direct peace talks in Qatar’s capital Doha. Any Peace process has some key aspects which are vital ...
The Losses of Property and Valuable Human Life as the Main Consequences of Wars
June 20,2019 | Asim
Wars have always played a dominant role in human societies, if not positive all the times. There are many people in the world who consider that wars are necessary, though wars ...
Teflon Populism
June 20,2019 | Sławomir Sierakowski
Populist rule is invariably associated with corruption, nepotism, and incompetence. Why, then, do populists appear immune to scandal? Revelations that would have shocked ...
Staying Focused and Taking Solid Actions For a Brighter Future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
June 19,2019 | Xi Jinping
Staying Focused and Taking Solid Actions For a Brighter Future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Regional Stakeholders Need to Take Practical Steps toward Peace Process
June 19,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
The Afghan government has been calling on regional stakeholders and neighboring countries to play more active and constructive role in intra-Afghan dialogue. . .
Pessimism and Optimism on the Eve of Seventh Round Talks Between US and Taliban
June 18,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
It is said that the seventh round talks between the US negotiators and the Taliban members in Doha, will take place in few next days hoping that this time the talks would produce sensible ...
The World Is Running Out of Time
June 18,2019 | Bertrand Badré
In 2015, the international community launched a renewed effort to tackle collective global challenges under the auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda ...
Afghan-Pak Friendly Relations Critical to Peace Process
June 17,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have passed many ups and downs. Afghan-Pak officials exchanged harsh rhetoric against each other about the issue of terrorism on ...
What’s Wrong with Environmental Impact Assessments?
June 17,2019 | Maxwell Gomera
Walhi, Indonesia’s largest environmental organization, recently took the government to court for issuing construction permits to a Chinese company based on what ...
World Day against Child Labor: Children Shouldn’t Work in Fields but on Dreams
June 16,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The continuity war has caused a huge number of children are subject to hard labor in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, this situation has not only forced them to abandon their ...
Taking on Tehran
June 16,2019 | Richard N. Haass
US President Donald Trump’s administration has singled out Iran – even more than Russia, China, or North Korea – with sustained pressure over the past two and ...
Regional Cooperation to be Stepped up in SCO Summit
June 15,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani traveled to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek to attend the 19th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation ...
Where is the Key to Peace: Kabul or Islamabad?
June 15,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Recently the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said that Pakistan is ready to help Afghanistan in post-settlement reconstruction and development...
Urgent Need for Population Control in Afghanistan
June 13,2019 | M. Rasa
Population is the basic part of a state. States are formed for the welfare and wellbeing of their people; without population no state or society can exist . . .
Lessons from India in Digital Disruption
June 13,2019 | Nandan Nilekani
Digital technology can rapidly transform how countries provide services such as education and health to their citizens. The public services of the future should be effective ...
The Extension of Takfiri Terrorist Group is More Worrying than Taliban
June 12,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The expanding news of Takfiri terrorist group is repeatedly heard in Afghanistan after they lost its so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq. It is said that more than 5,000 IS forces ...
Taming the Wild West of Digital Health Innovation
June 12,2019 | Asha George, Amnesty LeFevre & Rajani Ved
Digital technology is revolutionizing our daily lives. Mobile devices monitor our movements, marketing algorithms guide our consumption, and social media shape ...
Voters Registration is a Major Step towards Holding Presidential Election
June 11,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
According to media reports, the Afghan electoral officials have just commenced supplementary voters registering program ahead of presidential election scheduled for ...
Europe’s Silent Majority Speaks Out
June 11,2019 | George Soros
last month’s elections to the European Parliament produced better results than one could have expected, and for a simple reason: the silent pro-European majority has spoken...
Afghanistan Needs Shanghai Cooperation Organization
June 10,2019 | Liu Jinsong
In a few days, the Council of Heads of State of the Member States of Shanghai Cooperation Organization ...
Maintaining the Momentum Against Cholera
June 10,2019 | Anita Zaidi
When Cyclone Idai ripped through Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe on the night of March 14, it wrought unimaginable devastation and claimed more than 1,000 lives. In its aftermath ...
Necessary Lessons to Learn from the Moscow Conference
June 09,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The second Moscow Conference has not only yielded any fruitful results, but also caused shame and possibly more turmoil. Those who repeatedly rushed into Moscow gates ...
Why Economics Must Go Digital
June 09,2019 | Diane Coyle
one of the biggest concerns about today’s tech giants is their market power. At least outside China, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dominate online search, social media ...
Ramadan: Month of Peace and Blessing or Month of Violence and Atrocity?
June 08,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
According to Islamic teachings, the holy month of Ramadan is the month of blessings, forgiveness, kindness, brotherhood and love of humanity. Getting closer to Eid-Ul-Fiter ...
China’s New World Media Order
June 08,2019 | Wu’er Kaixi and Christophe Deloire
Since the Tiananmen Square massacre 30 years ago, China has achieved extraordinary economic development. Yet, contrary to the expectations of many Western leaders and analysts ...
Why the EU Election Was a Win for Macron
June 03,2019 | Zaki Laïdi
Though the final vote tally might seem to suggest otherwise, the European Parliament elections were a strategic success for French President Emmanuel Macron...
Italy’s Narrow Path to Recovery
June 03,2019 | Pier Carlo Padoan
Italy faces a double economic crisis in which two recessions and a banking crisis over the past decade have come on top of a slow structural decline in growth over a far longer ...
Why Fukuyama is Breathtakingly Honest
June 02,2019 | M. Rezaie
The world, today, is going through a historic era whose repercussions will stay with mankind for generations to come. The decades ahead will define the future ...