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How To Cope Efficiently The Stratification in Afghanistan
May 29,2021 | Sajjad Aasim
Since the formation of the so-called democratic system in Afghanistan, after the downfall of Taliban, security is not the only issue in the country, though most of the concentration ...
The State’s New Balancing Act
May 29,2021 | Jaideep Prabhu
For over a century, the size and role of the state has been a hotly debated issue, and is so once again in the wake of COVID-19. Should governments involve themselves in ever ...
Why We Are a Poor Nation
May 27,2021 | Mohd. Sakhi Rezaie
Afghanistan is an agricultural country by tradition and the social life of the people of Afghanistan is simply related to their culture and resources. The resource at the disposal ...
How to Save Independent Local Media
May 27,2021 | Michael Mirny
The world will start to recover from COVID-19, thanks to unprecedented scientific cooperation and global vaccination efforts. Economies will emerge from the crisis ...
Government Should Take Concrete Steps in Eliminating Corruption
May 26,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
What will you do if your patient needs to be kept in intensive care unit (ICU), but all ICU is full of other patients, mostly afflicted with COVID-19 the same as that ...
Hijacking Western Complacency
May 26,2021 | Sławomir Sierakowski
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has once again demonstrated the lengths to which he will go to crack down on his opponents. On May 23, he deployed ...
The Fears and Concerns about the third wave of covid-19 in Afghanistan
May 25,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Despite security concerns and the successive fall of districts in Afghanistan, the ears and Concerns about the third of wave of covid-19 have also raised in Afghanistan. ...
Prosecute the Populists?
May 25,2021 | Nina L. Khrushcheva
Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is facing ...
Lacking Spirit of Brotherhood
May 24,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
Our old literature which was full of divine love, virtue and sanctity has been changed into banality and the modern literature is replete with Hollywood love, licentious ...
The Right Incentives for Global Vaccine Access
May 24,2021 | Michele Goodwin and Gregory Shaffer
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to reveal shocking underlying infrastructural inequalities around the world. While the United States rapidly rolls out vaccines even to ...
Tribal Code of Conduct Holds Sway in Afghanistan, Pakistan
May 23,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
Discrimination on the basis of gender and violence against women are widespread not only in Afghanistan but also around the region. Women are treated as pariahs in tribal ...
The Big Lie and Its Consequences
May 23,2021 | Elizabeth Drew
This period in US history could go down as the moment when America’s democratic system for electing a president – the most consequential duty of US citizens ...
The Psychological Implications of war in Afghanistan
May 22,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
One of the most pervasive consequences of war and violence has been psychological and psychophysical disease in Afghanistan. The forty-three-year war and violence have exposed people to different traumatic events that raise the chances of ...
Will the Recovery Last?
May 22,2021 | Jim O’Neill
Since last spring, it has been clear to me that a quick and sizeable recovery would follow from the pandemic-induced recession, owing to Western governments’ massive fiscal- and ...
Public Resentment over Electricity Disorders in Afghanistan
May 19,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although the power line has temporally been connected, there is no certainty to see the end of electricity disorders in Kabul city. According to Da Afghanistan ...
Ghani Can Learn From Assad How to Survive
May 19,2021 | Manish Rai
Pakistan plays a critical role in Afghanistan. It has been behind creation of different military groups in the country and have control over them. Taliban is also a group created ...
The Families of victims: Attack on Sayyid al-Shuhada school should be recognized as genocide
May 18,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
After increase of Hazara massacre in recent years, the concept of Hazara genocide has become one of the hot topics in Afghanistan. The families of Sayeed Al Shohada School ...
The Mother of News Stories
May 18,2021 | Jules Kortenhorst
In addressing climate change, “winning” slowly is the same as losing. We have only one chance to fix this problem before it becomes an existential threat, and the window for action is closing fast...
Sad Hearts behind Cheerful Facade on Eid Day
May 17,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
Behind the cheerful facades, our people live with sadness and tragedy in their hearts. To our unmitigated chagrin, our compatriots constantly fall victim of terrorist ...
Taliban Not Serious About Peace
May 17,2021 | Maryam Hashemi
Afghan people, Afghan officials, including President Ghani, have called on the Taliban to extend the three day ceasefire and join the peace talks genuinely...
Afghan Government Should not Make the Same Mistake by Releasing Taliban Terrorist Fighters
May 16,2021 | mohd.Sakhi Rezaie
Despite holding talks with the Taliban and giving concessions to the group, the Afghan government failed to secure a permanent ceasefire. There are concerns about the outcome ...
Forget the Vaccine Patent Waiver
May 16,2021 | Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
The surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India shows that the pandemic is far from over. While most developing countries in Asia and Africa managed to keep their death ...
How to Form Regional Consensus on Afghanistan
May 12,2021 | Mohd. Sakhi Rezaie
As the United States and allies plan their withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country faces three interrelated challenges: a weak national state, rising Islamic ...
A Global Accord for Sustainable Finance
May 12,2021 | Fabio Panetta
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest decrease in global economic activity on record. But the drop in carbon dioxide emissions has been only temporary...
Taliban Make no Bones about Killing Civilians
May 11,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
The Taliban terrorist group, which held power over roughly three quarters of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, still wages war against the Afghan government and targets both ...
A European-Style United Nations
May 11,2021 | Sandra Breka and Brian Finlay
BERLIN/WASHINGTON, DC – Last September, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted a landmark declaration affirming a commitment ...
No Justification for Violence Left in Afghanistan
May 10,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
The Taliban continue spilling the blood of Afghan combatants and non-combatants alike and have intensified their attacks as the US troops have started withdrawing...
The Limits to US-China Climate Cooperation
May 10,2021 | Minxin Pei
Despite their increasingly bitter rivalry, the United States and China have recently been sending the right signals regarding potential cooperation on combating climate change...
The Media Threat is a Threat to the Freedom and Progress of Afghanistan
May 9,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although the media and workers had already faced numerous challenges and threats, new threats are imposed on media community. Formerly, the media and media workers were secretly attacked ...
Money Alone Won’t Ensure Global Vaccine Equity
May 9,2021 | Rosalind McKenna
In March, South Sudan received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. While that is good news, it came almost four months after the first doses were administered in the United ...
No Imposed Peace Acceptable
May 08,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
If regional and global stakeholders put all their weight behind the Afghan peace process, hope for peace is likely to emerge in public air. Afghans have still concerns and fear ...
The Climate Tipping Point We Want
May 08,2021 | Gernot Wagner
Like most worthwhile pursuits, reducing carbon pollution comes with costs. If it didn’t, climate change wouldn’t be a problem in the first ...
Helping the Other 66%
May 06,2021 | Kenneth Rogoff
CAMBRIDGE – What is remarkable about the increase in nationalist sentiment across the developed world in recent years is that it is occurring at a time when many of ...
Relationship between Political and Economic Development
May 06,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The Relationship between Political Development and Economic Development...
Taliban Pursue Bloodshed, not Peace
May 05,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan notwithstanding the Taliban’s escalated insurgency, leading to large-scale civilian casualties, has triggered public concern ...