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The World Needs Divine Savior
November 06, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Unfortunately, we live in a world of growing injustice, oppression, ruthlessness, humanitarian crisis and disorders! Power and dangerous weapons are in the hand of some greedy and wolves-likely...
Gender Discrimination
November 05, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Afghan women suffered under cultural restrictions and public traditions. They were left at the mercy of discriminations on the grounds of their sex and deemed an inferior creature. Their rights and...
Suffering under Democracy?
November 03, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The gap between state and nation has widened and there is a sense of deep mistrust in the air. On the one hand, the exchange of harsh rhetoric among political figures and on the other hand, reports about...
Intolerance leads to Fratricide
November 02, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
There is a fascinating little story that is preserved for us in Greek literature about Ulysses and the Sirens. The Sirens had the ability to sing so sweetly that sailors could not resist steering toward their...
New Wave of Violence Against Journalist
November 02, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In spite of the media’s rapid growth since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghan journalists and editors have been facing serious threats and challenges imposed by insurgent groups while the local...
High Birthrate Causing High Death Rate
November 01, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Afghanistan is on the 11th highest birth rate in the world, and also the highest birth rate in non-African countries. The first country with the highest birth rate is Niger, a western African country...
The Weakest Example of Leadership
October 31, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Last year, in the same days, a survey conducted among a nationally representative sample of 2,500 adults across all of the country's 34 provinces. It found that nearly 81% of people are dissatisfied with...
Food effect: we are What we Eat
October 30, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
For thousands of years, people have believed that food could influence their health, personality and well-being. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, once said: “Let your food be your medicine...
A Surge in Sectarianism
October 30, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Sectarian violence is one of the most serious issues being practiced by the radical militants in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and people are killed on the grounds of their caste, creed and color...
Effects of Education
October 29, 2016 | Ahmad Shah Karimi
Education is an effort of the senior people to transfer their knowledge to the younger members of society. It is thus an institution, which plays a vital role in integrating an individual with his society...
How to Heal the ‘Bleeding Wound’?
October 27, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Afghan nation has suffered painfully within present and past war and civil unrests. The regimes which menaced Afghans’ religious values, ethical code and cultural norms encountered public resistance...
Opium Fueling War and Crime in Afghanistan
October 27, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Since 2001, the production of opium in the country has increased by 40 times fueling organized war, crime and widespread bloodshed throughout the country. Afghanistan’s opium poppy production goes...
Putting Pressure on Taliban
October 25, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Following the ebb and flow of peace talks between Afghan government and the Taliban, the talks have resurfaced in national and international media. Meanwhile, the civilian fatalities increased on a...
Kabul: Irritating and Dangerous Traffic
October 25, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Kabul is the axis of political, commercial, cultural, educational and social life in Afghanistan and the fifth fastest growing city in the world. Because of insufficient basic services and lack of a decentralized...
Prioritizing Education
October 24, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Despite some progresses, there is a wide gap between the quality of the Afghan education system comparing to regional and global standards. With 31 percent the country retains one of the lowest literacy...
Afghanistan: The Most Dangerous Place to Live
October 23, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live a healthy life. Due to poor quality health care services the wealthier choose to seek care in other countries but the poorer have to...
ISKP Foments Sectarianism
October 23, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Sectarian violence has been stoked by terrorist networks in Afghanistan and a number of individuals are killed on the grounds of their sect and beliefs. The insurgents spill the blood of men and women...
Prospects of Poverty and Income Inequality in Afghanistan
October 22, 2016 | Farzana Rashid Rahimi
Inequality of income is a global phenomenon that has attracted a lot of attention across the word, especially in developing nations. In broader terms, inequality has many aspects but...
Will Peace Talks lead to Peace?
October 20, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Following the peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the escalated militancy and combatant and non-combatant casualties continued unabated despite the fact that Gulbuddin called...
Low Quality Medicines
October 19, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The availability of quality pharmaceutical products is critical to promoting and maintaining public health. This is particularly important in impoverished, insecure, countries...
Who is Responsible?
October 18, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
I would say that the most fundamental challenge is security. Security actually affects all activities of life in Afghanistan. After the drawdown of the international forces...
Man is the Creator of his own Fortune
October 18, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
No one can do what a person himself can do for his life. Fortune of a man depends upon his own self; he can make or ruin something as he wishes. In other words, the destiny of...
Educational System in Germany
October 17, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Germany is one the world pioneers in ranking best educational system. Studies show that Germany has a much higher percentage of high-quality performance than many advanced countries...
When Law is not Respected
October 16, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Parliament is considered the beating heart of democracy and established to protect the rights and dignity of a nation and decentralize the power of state. Members of Parliament...
Reconsidering Polices!
October 16, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Alexander Mantytskiy, the Russian envoy to Kabul, last Wednesday said the United States and NATO have failed in their mission to ensure security and rid the country of terrorists...
The Epic Movement of Imam Hussain (A.S)
October 15, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The revolution of Karbala has many aspects to be pondered upon. Imam Hussain (A.S) refused to pledge allegiance to the corrupt regime of Yazid and preferred a glorious death...
The Nation-State Contract
October 11, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan,” the Constitution states in article 3. Historical facts, social values and...
Characteristics of Great Teachers
October 11, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Teaching is one of the most complicated, challenging, stressful, time-consuming careers a person can choose to pursue. It demands broad knowledge of subject matter, enthusiasm...
Counterterrorism Needs International Convention
October 10, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Terrorism is a flaming fire which burn black and white, Muslim and None-Muslim eastern and western, sinful and sinless equally. According to reports, from 1970 to 2016, there...
International Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan
October 09, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Considering the links between aid effectiveness and security, the effectiveness of aid has a major impact on development, peace and stability in the country. Corruptions, lack...
Taliban – The Product of Social-Political Background
October 09, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The Taliban’s sudden emergence in 1994, their swift military upshot and strange ideology brought surprise not only to Afghanistan but to the entire world. A number of...
Five Priorities to Boost Afghanistan’s Development
October 08, 2016 | Annette Dixon
Today I joined leaders and representatives from 70 countries and 20 international organizations and agencies at the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan. Together with its development...
Social Stigma and Youth Trouble in South Asia
October 08, 2016 | Dwaipayan Regmi
The shame or disgrace attached to something that is unacceptable to society can be regarded as social stigma. Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of twentieth...
The Protracted War
October 06, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The important thing is for the leaders to try to really think about the country and its future, and how to better serve the people. Of course, since it is a political system...
Glance at Relations between Afghanistan and China
October 06, 2016 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
China has had peaceful and non-aggressive policies in the world particularly in regard to Afghanistan Affairs. Now China is considered the largest foreign investor in Afghanistan...