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Will the real Pakistan stand up, please?
March 31, 2018 |
two headlines this month beg the question US officials have been grappling with for more than a decade: Will the real Pakistan stand up, please? ...
Education and its impact on Poverty in Afghanistan
March 31, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The Third World Countries compared to other countries may be even richer in terms of natural resources, but in terms of human resources, they are in extreme ...
Peaceful Life – A Dream that Will Come True
March 29, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
To form a civil and democratic society where all individuals are able to live a violence-free and peaceful life, Afghans need to exercise tolerance and strengthen ...
Macron Takes Aim at European Politics
March 29, 2018 | Mark Leonard
Until the terrorist attack at a market in southern France on March 23, French President Emmanuel Macron had been planning to launch a new European-level political ...
Natural gas: An underrated driver of Saudi hostility towards Iran and Qatar
March 28, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Debilitating hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran is about lots of things, not least who will have the upper hand in a swath of land stretching from Central ...
Migrants trapped in quagmire: Neglected by their own country, mistreated by the host country
March 28, 2018 | Shobha Shukla
This pretty well sums up the pathetic situation in which many migrants find themselves today. And while immigration refers to people who legally relocate to another ...
Let Yemen Survive
March 27, 2018 | Manish Rai
Yemeni war as entered into its fourth year with more than 10,000 people killed and pushed the country to the brink of famine. Yemen has long been the poorest country ...
Saving the Shrinking Middle
March 27, 2018 | Mohamed A. El-Erian
There was a time when many regarded being in the middle of the distribution – socially, politically, and in the business world – as a favorable, stabilizing ...
Saudi moderation: How far will Crown Prince Mohammed go?
March 26, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
In his effort to improve Saudi Arabia’s badly tarnished image and project the kingdom as embracing an unidentified form of moderate Islam, Saudi Crown Prince ...
Afghanistan: New year Starts with Successive attacks
March 26, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
After proposal of free precondition talks everyone was hopeful for opening a new political chapter in the country but On contrary to the whitehopes,the new year ...
The Need for Economic Development
March 25, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
With holding the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, China had a look at the past achievements. The dream of the ruling party for a civil and prosperous ...
She stood up to defeat TB
March 25, 2018 | Shobha Shukla
The youngest of 3 sisters, Ingrid Schoeman grew up in Pretoria and later started working as a dietician in a government hospital in Port Elizabeth in Eastern ...
How Can We Efficiently Involve Afghan Women and Other Affected Parties in Peace Talks
March 24, 2018 | Kawoon Azizi
Nowadays Afghan National Unity Government (NUG) is warmly calling the Afghan Taliban for peace talks ...
Saudi Prince Mohammed’s religious moderation unlikely to change Asian realities
March 24, 2018 | James M. Dorsey
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be seeking to revert his kingdom to an unspecified form of moderate Islam but erasing the impact of 40 years of global ...
Democratization of Our Society
March 20, 2018 | Dilawar Sherzai
Since the downfall of Taliban, we have been chanting the slogans of democracy and striving to form a democratic country but it is important to understand that there ...
Populists of the World Unite
March 20, 2018 | Dominique Moisi
In 1965, Henry Kissinger wrote a book called The Troubled Partnership, in which he examined the tensions affecting the transatlantic alliance ...
When Shall We Overcome?
March 19, 2018 | Joseph E. Stiglitz
In 1967, riots erupted in cities throughout the United States, from Newark, New Jersey, to Detroit and Minneapolis in the Midwest – all two years after the Watts ...
Seth Berkley is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
March 18, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
A peaceful and violence-free world has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which practices the ...
Vaccinating Against Poverty
March 18, 2018 | Seth Berkley
For most people, the choice between a life-threatening disease and a lifetime of crippling debt is no choice at all. Yet every year, hundreds of millions of ...
A Networked Solution to Education Reform
March 17, 2018 | Amy Black and Alexis Menten
Around the world, some 250 million children are unable to attend school, and many who do have access to a classroom are not learning the skills they need ...
Food Security’s Social Network
March 17, 2018 | Leah Samberg
In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitious goal: ending global ...
Could the Kim-Trump Summit Succeed?
March 14, 2018 | Ramesh Thakur
Last year, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump were hurling kindergarten insults at each other – “Rocket Man is on a suicide ...
China is a Major Country Full of Sunshine (Part 2)
March 14, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
Chinese foreign policy is full of peace, its national defense policy is just for self-defence and its security policy is of comprehensive consideration, adhere ...
Tashkent to Host a High-Level Conference on Afghanistan
March 13, 2018 | Press Service
The global and regional powers, Afghanistan’s neighbors will attend the Tashkent International Conference “Peace Process, Security Cooperation ...
China is a Major Country Full of Sunshine
March 13, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
Recently, China is convening the “two sessions”, ie., the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference...
Improving the Sustainability of Development Finance
March 12, 2018 | Ethiopis Tafara
To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, trillions of dollars in state spending, investment, and aid will be needed annually...
Afghanistan: Shameful Rise of Violence Against Women
March 12, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Following the pervasive mark of women international day, 8th of march,the revealedreportshas divulged ashamefulcondition against women in Afghanistan...
A Tale with a Difference
March 11, 2018 | Shobha Shukla
This is the story of Razia, a girl from village Bahpur in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. It has all the ingredients of a fairy tale, but with a difference...
What Boosts Gender Equality in Developing Countries?
March 11, 2018 | Bobbi Gray
WASHINGTON, DC – On March 8, the world will celebrate International Women’s Day, an annual opportunity to recommit to gender equality. This year’s observance ...
Afghanistan can be a $50 billion economy by 2025
March 10, 2018 | Sourajit Aiyer
Afghanistan may have seen muted economic growth in recent years; however impetus on specific drivers of growth can turn the clock around. If it wants to grow its ...
Xinhua Insight: President Xi’s five years (Part 2)
March 10, 2018 | Xinhua writers
Two action films recently rose to stardom of China’s film industry. The plots of “Wolf Warrior 2” and “Operation Red Sea” were similar: Chinese soldiers fighting hard ...
Women Hold Up Half of the Sky both in China and Afghanistan
March 08, 2018 | Liu Jinsong
Today, March 8th, is the International Women’s Day. Both China and Afghanistan attach great importance to this day, for it is a festival for women, as well as ...
The Fluctuation of Women’s Rights and Freedoms in Afghanistan
March 08, 2018 | Hujjatullah Zia
Gender discrimination has been widely practiced in Afghanistan and curtailed the freedoms of women in one way or another. The past patriarchal systems ...
Xinhua Insight: President Xi’s Five Years (Part 1)
March 07, 2018 | Xinhua writers Xu Lingui, Huang Xiaoxi, Meng Na, Li Zhihui
BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The imposing Great Hall of the People, in the center of Beijing, bears witness to China’s democratic politics...
Education: The most Powerful Weapon to Change World
March 07, 2018 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
No nation has succeeded to change its destiny without strategic investment on education and human capital yet. In fact, education is the only powerful weapon ...