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Paradoxes of Peace Talks in Afghanistan
October 02, 2018 | Abass Azimi
The 1979 Russian invasion of Afghanistan inflicted political instability and crises on the country. People were internally displaced and large numbers fled the country...
Kabul: Decorated with Campaigner’s Posters
October 01, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The upcoming parliamentary elections campaigns officials kicked off on last Friday night with many candidates decorated the whole city with billboards, pictures and posted videos ...
Fragility of Middle East Alliances Becomes ever More apparent
October 01, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Three recent developments lay bare the fragility of Middle Eastern alliances and a rebalancing of their priorities: the Russian-Turkish compromise on an assault on the ...
Cultural Excahnges between China and Afghanistan Boosting Friendly Relations
September 30, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Afghan high-level officials, including the Second Vice President Sarwar Danesh, attended the 3rd Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo in Chinese Province of Gansu...
Defending Democracy’s Essence
September 30, 2018 | Shirin Ebadi and Christophe Deloire
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, affirming the view that “the will of ...
What’s the geographical importance of Afghanistan?
September 29, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Afghanistan is located at the center of a region that has great geo-economical potential but its geo- strategic and geo- political location has been a deterrent challenge ...
Afghan Security Institutions Must Respond to the Growing Need for Public Security
September 27, 2018 | Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada
As the country is grinding at war with international terrorists organizations since last one and half decade, Afghanistan government is yet to come up with a war strategy ...
Storm Warning for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
September 27, 2018 | Daniel Litvin
This has been a year of extreme weather events, from the “Beast from the East” that froze much of the United Kingdom in March to Hurricane Florence on ...
Attack in Iran Raises Spectre of a Potentially far Larger Conflagration
September 26, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition groups at home and abroad. It also ...
The Promise and Pitfalls of AI
September 26, 2018 | Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck
Like any transformative trend, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) poses both major opportunities and significant challenges. But the gravest risks may not be the ones most ...
MAD About Sino-American Trade
September 25, 2018 | Minxin Pei
Now that US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on yet another $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, the US-China trade war has entered a costly new phase ...
UN: 5.5 Million People in Urgent Needs for Financial Aid in Afghanistan
September 25, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Last Saturday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator has called international community for urgent financial assistance for nearly 5.5 million hungry people ...
Reforms In Government Educational Institutions Needed to Improve Quality Education
September 24, 2018 | Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada
Government funded schools take on the largest number of students from grade one to grade twelve across the country, and Ministry of Education...
Int’l Day of Peace: A distant dream in Afghanistan
September 24, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
With issuing the resolution No. 235/252, The United Nations General Assembly declared 21 of September as International Day for Peace. The main aim of this resolution was ...
Election Should Carry the True Spirit of Democracy
September 23, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
With only few weeks left for the upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections, the mistrust resurfaced between state and nation leading to the closure of ...
Why the US Would Lose A Trade War with China
September 23, 2018 | Anatole Kaletsky
The United States cannot win its tariff war with China, regardless of what President Donald Trump says or does in the coming months. Trump believes that he has the upper ...
A Trilateral Effort to Bring Peace in Afghanistan
September 22, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
On late August, a 12-member Chinese high-level delegation met the newly appointed Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib and Deputy Foreign Minister for ...
Governments Must Stand Up for Health
September 22, 2018 | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
It was just a century ago that the Spanish flu epidemic spread across the world and killed tens of millions of people. Long before the moon landing, the Internet ...
Education for Fragile States
September 19, 2018 | Homi Kharas and Rebecca Winthrop
This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will release its annual Goalkeepers report card assessing progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals ...
Imran Khan Pledges to Grant Citizenship to Afghan Refugees
September 19, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a surprise announcement that he would grand citizenship to Pakistan-born children of Afghan and Bengali refugees, many ...
Peace Talks Starts between Kabul and Islamabad new Administration
September 18, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The new Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, traveled to Kabul and met with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah, and Acting ...
A Better Bailout Was Possible
September 18, 2018 | Rob Johnson and George Soros
The recent exchange between Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers about “secular stagnation” and its relation to the tepid economic recovery after the 2008-2009 financial ...
The factors behind Afghani devaluation
September 17, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In few last year, Afghan currency has been steadily losing its value against foreign currency, especially against USD but recently it has suddenly fallen from 73 to around ...
China Struggles with Belt and Road Pushback
September 17, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
China, in an implicit recognition that at least some of its Belt and Road-related projects risk trapping target countries in debt or fail to meet their needs, has conceded ...
China-ASEAN Expo – ‘A Win-win Platform for Strategic Cooperation’
September 16, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Themed “Jointly building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the China-ASEAN community of innovation,” the 15th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) was held in ...
The Masses Are Mobilizing for Climate Leadership
September 16, 2018 | Christiana Figueres and May Boeve
This year, extreme weather conditions have ravaged our planet, subjecting vulnerable communities around the world to the ever-increasing impacts of climate change ...
India Reshapes Surrounding Geopolitics
September 13, 2018 | Jiao Nie, Dekai Huang & Hongxi Chen
The US and India held their first “2+2” dialogue in New Delhi on September 6th, attended by their foreign and defense ministers. Both countries agreed ...
Africa’s Women Belong at the Top
September 13, 2018 | Joyce Banda
When I was eight years old, a family friend told my father that he thought I was destined for leadership. My dad never let me forget that heady observation, and as a result ...
The civilization of China and Afghanistan: Equality, inclusiveness, Mutual Learning and Diversity
September 12, 2018 | Mingzhe Ren, Shuyu Li & Daitong Liang
Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, once delivered a keynote speech at UNESCO headquarters, which on the subject of “Civilizations ...
An Economic Approach to Elections (Public choice)
September 12, 2018 | Mohammad Ibrahim Ehsani
In second part of our discussion we want to mention to another aspect of public choice, to “the market for votes”. There is more to interest-group ...
Enlightenment for China-Afghanistan Cooperation from China-Africa Cooperation
September 11, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
The Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was successfully held during September 3rd to 4th. H.E. Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired the Summit. 40 presidents ...
AFGHANISTAN: Way Forward (Last Part)
September 11, 2018 | Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada
In the beginning of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when Doctor Khalilzad was the Ambassador of United States in Afghanistan, the administration of George W. Bush devised a clever policy . . .
AFGHANISTAN: Way Forward (Part 3)
September 10, 2018 | Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada
In order to achieve this end, a team of experienced political figures should come to the fore and commit themselves to salvage Afghanistan in particular and the ...
Will the New Scheme Improve the Security Condition in Kabul?
September 10, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
After the successive attacks in west of Kabul, President Ashraf Ghani has ordered Kabul’s division into four security zones and the west of Kabul will be changed ...
Trump’s Assault on Refugees
September 08, 2018 | Gordon Brown
The decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has ...